Your Body: Owner’s Manual, Part One

By Guest Bloggers: The Baietto Brothers

Your body is the greatest vehicle that has ever been created! OH MY… the intricacies, the details, the overall quality, the precision of all the parts, the perfection of multiple systems all coordinating to work together with unexplainable synergy. This amazing vehicle allows us to walk, talk, eat, breathe, see, hear, etc… it’s literally unexplainable…

However, regular maintenance IS required…and therein lays the rub!

Now if we use a car as a metaphor we can easily understand this analogy. If you were to walk into Lamborghini dealer and decide to buy the top of the line vehicle from him he would spend a great deal of time explaining the care and upkeep that you would need to do to make sure that this amazing vehicle stayed working at it’s optimal level. In fact, he would make sure that you knew that if you didn’t take care of the vehicle in the manner that was best for it, your warranty would be null and void.

This makes sense right?

I mean it is a $400,000 Lamborghini.

Now, that doesn’t mean that they didn’t use the best materials they could. It’s just the nature of taking care of a super high-end vehicle that you get the privilege to drive around. No matter how careful you are, you are going to drive on some uneven roads, you’re going to hit some potholes, you will probably get caught in the bad weather from time to time, and you may even get bumped by someone else. Needless to say, there are so many outside factors that can affect the cars performance that the only way to keep it running at the optimal level it was designed to, is to get regular maintenance.

And any good mechanic will tell you it is much easier and definitely much cheaper to take care of the little things along the way and than to wait until something major happens before taking it in.

The same is true with our bodies!

At our health center, people come in all the time and share stories of how their back, knee, hip, etc went out and all they were doing was carrying a bag of groceries, or walking up a flight of stairs or lifting up their little child. And what they don’t seem to understand is that it wasn’t that isolated incident but years of hitting small potholes, getting bumped, or just normal wear and tear that wasn’t being taken care of and whatever they were doing when they got hurt was simply the proverbial “straw that broke the camels back.”

Stress is often like that. How many times have you gotten really angry over something and when you looked back at it you had to admit that the incident in question certainly didn’t seem like it deserved to become such a big deal? Most of the time, it was simply the last of a series of many things that were weighing on you and that just happened to be the thing that pushed you over the edge.

It may sound obvious but somehow very few of us connect the dots and take the time to release our stress every day so that the little things don’t build up. And most of our stress is simply an accumulation, day after day, of thousands of little things. Things that by themselves weren’t a big deal at all, but all together… well, if you’re human, I’m sure you’ve been there. J By taking just a few minutes a day to release your stress you can let go of the little things. And not only that but when the truly big things does come your way, you have the tools and the practice to support yourself through them.

Just like a car needs a bigger scheduled maintenance every so often, we are going to encounter big challenges in our life from time to time. The goal is not to avoid the challenges, that would be impossible, but rather to keep ourselves in the best shape possible to handle them.

Try this right now… feel around inside your body and see where you are holding your stress. It maybe your shoulders, your neck, your lower back… where is it for you? Now, simply close your eyes take a slow deep breath and breathe into the area that you are focusing on… feel the fresh, pure, oxygen relaxing that part of your body. Do this for 5 full breaths. Can you feel the difference? Often we don’t even realize how tight we are in a certain area. And with each breath, you may experience a sensation of letting go and feeling looser inside. You may even start to feel a slight tingle as that area continues to relax. This is a simple but very powerful technique that you can do whenever and wherever you want. Try doing it tonight when you get into bed. Trust us, it is way better than counting sheep.

At www.completebalance.com we start with 3 simple but very powerful stress release techniques that you can do in just a couple minutes a day. By forming a daily habit of releasing stress each evening you will not only sleep better than ever but you will start every morning with a full tank of gas and all systems ready to go. J

VRRROOMMM, VRRRROOOM
The Baietto Brothers

Listen To An Amazing Live Interview With The Baietto Brothers By Clicking Here!