It freaks me out when I feel that I might get bored of physio very soon.
Is boredom my biggest problem?
Is it a referred pain?
I am constantly avoiding boredom..
That's why I am here. Yet I am so uninterested.
Jan 30, 2014
Jan 23, 2014
My piriformis
I think I understand more about my butt pain more today.
I come to read about a muscle that I have never heard of before this week called piriformis that stretch across from the tailbone to thigh bone.
And it causes sciatica, because the sciatic nerve is just right underneath it so if it is overly tensed or overworked it will certainly pinch on the nerve.
And the cause of it is a weak gluteal muscle, pronation of the foot, and tight adductor.
No wonder I feel pain to keep my legs together (lateral rotation) when I am doing cobra pose (which is a bit of hip extension i supposed)
And when I worked on my very weak locust pose (which is gluteal muscles strengthening to get hip extension), my butt pain gets better!
Because now that my gluteal muscles are stronger, the piriform doesn't have to compensate so much for them?
And all the exercise that relieve piriformis syndrome seems to be the yoga poses that work for me!
What~
It's just a bit of eureka moment but I am not 100% sure.
But it's definitely cool~ like I don't even know what is the name of my problem before this.
Now what I am reading in class finally has a very close relevance to my own pains and concerns.
I come to read about a muscle that I have never heard of before this week called piriformis that stretch across from the tailbone to thigh bone.
And it causes sciatica, because the sciatic nerve is just right underneath it so if it is overly tensed or overworked it will certainly pinch on the nerve.
And the cause of it is a weak gluteal muscle, pronation of the foot, and tight adductor.
No wonder I feel pain to keep my legs together (lateral rotation) when I am doing cobra pose (which is a bit of hip extension i supposed)
And when I worked on my very weak locust pose (which is gluteal muscles strengthening to get hip extension), my butt pain gets better!
Because now that my gluteal muscles are stronger, the piriform doesn't have to compensate so much for them?
And all the exercise that relieve piriformis syndrome seems to be the yoga poses that work for me!
What~
It's just a bit of eureka moment but I am not 100% sure.
But it's definitely cool~ like I don't even know what is the name of my problem before this.
Now what I am reading in class finally has a very close relevance to my own pains and concerns.
on How to Survive & Thrive In Any New Environment
"...Find beauty in the unknown.
At the end of it all, learn to enjoy the scariness. Embrace feeling ungrounded and accept the nerves, anxiety, uncertainty, and, at times, resentment. Acknowledge the strength it took for you to enter this new environment and honor the risk. Find purpose in your transition. You're doing something amazing.
Treat your new environment as an opportunity to thrive in ways that you didn’t — or couldn’t — in your old job, town, or relationship. Don’t be afraid to take baby steps and find silly, unconventional, or plain weird ways to make your new environment your own. Before you know it, you'll call it "home." You won’t just survive; you will thrive."
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-10713/how-to-survive-thrive-in-any-new-environment.htmlI came to a situation that I don't really feel homesick. But my mind is replaying scenes during my undergrad in Canada. When I move into the student residence, it reminds me of Chestnut, it compares it with Loretto. When I meet strangers for the first time, it reminds me of all the happy times and sadness with my friends back then. I wanted to read a magazine like "Now magazine", I am trying to find a good roast duck in my new city, as good as the one in King's Noodle.
I am faced with the new and haunted by the old, I am overwhelmed with the new but consoled by the past. I feel like I want to refer to the previous experience but I find that things are different now, I can never go back. I should probably do it differently now. It's like trying to get used to new glasses when you are so used to the old ones.
I am not even sure if I want to start afresh here or just try to relive my memories.
I dread the awkwardness of meeting new people. I find it essential but meaningless at the same time, being uncertain about what it will leads to. I drop back to the comfort zone of talking to people I know whenever possible.
But isn't that something precious? Even if there is an awkward pause between conversation, even when you don't know anything about the stranger's country, even when you just go back to very very basic introduction of yourself. not fancy at all. Isn't that the only thing that can take away the specific persona mask that you are so used to wearing. Although it feels so ungrounding.
I realized that too much certainties in my old way of living that makes me feel bored. So why don't I just embrace it now.
This new, raw and tender ground zero.... before it is filled with a certain patterns of life again.
Even if nothing ever grows on it, even if it leads nowhere...
Jan 22, 2014
Finally I started tai chi class yesterday. In Glasgow. With other 15 Caucasians? And the teacher have to say excuse me to me when she translate what qi gong means lol.
It is alll about energy omg.
Can you feel the qi tangible?
I like it when the teacher show us what we will learn in 10 weeks.
There's something touching.
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