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Dr. Jen Esquer: The Biopsychosocial Model for Eliminating Pain, Bringing Language into Physical Therapy, and Epigenetics for Lifelong Wellness  — Barbell Shrugged #365

Barbell Shrugged

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The Importance of Breathing to Reduce Tension

A lot of us don't even realize how much we're breathing from our chest and kind of turning on that automatic sympathetic nervous system. Just learning how to utilize your low rib cage utilize the belly not by forcing it out but actually just relaxing it out is a good way to start postural awareness. Jen: realizing that you could use a lot more capacity within your body than we actually do is a huge thing I think Jesse Etsler said we use like 40% of our capacity within our body so that means we have 60% that we're not even tapping into.

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