Get Moving! Align Your Body, Align Your Life – Aaron Alexander : 891

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Jan 11, 2022

Body movement expert Aaron Alexander, known for his Align Method, shares transformative insights on integrating healthy movement into daily life. He explains how proper body alignment impacts well-being and self-perception. Discover how simple activities like walking can enhance brain function and organ health. Alexander delves into the importance of body language, the role of fascia, and the power of sleep positions in maintaining overall health. Tune in for effective strategies to realign your body and elevate your life!

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INSIGHT

Body Language Dominates Communication

Body language constitutes 55% of communication, tone 38%, and words only 7%, according to Albert Mehrabian.
Incongruence between these aspects leads to trusting nonverbal cues over words.

ANECDOTE

Prison Study on Body Language

A study in prisons showed inmates selected victims based on perceived weakness in body language, not race or sex.
Disoriented or dysregulated movement signaled easier prey, highlighting how body language communicates vulnerability.

ADVICE

Change Your Environment

Change your environment to change your automatic physical expression, especially if you grew up in Western culture.
Modern environments encourage collapsed postures, hindering confidence and how others perceive you.

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IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE...

… Body movement expert Aaron Alexander joins the show to talk about how to integrate healthy movement practices into your daily life.

You’ve likely heard that sitting is the new smoking – well, good news: It’s not the sitting itself, but how you sit, that affects your well-being. In fact, all the ways you hold your body and move your body matters. Body language and how you move through space tells others how comfortable you are, how truthful and trustworthy you are, and more.

Most of you have built up body movement around a collapse state, which can lead to physical and emotional pain. Aaron spent years traveling the world, discovering how other cultures defined and measured health and studying movement behaviors. He found that the healthiest cultures incorporate aligned movement and sitting styles into their day-to-day activity.

Take walking for example. “When you're out taking a walk, it's like you are literally playing symphony of your physiology,” he says. “Walking is one of the healthiest things that a person can do–just going out and getting yourself into that contralateral motion, contralateral being just like walking pattern. As you're doing that, you're stimulating your brain function, you're also stimulating things like peristalsis and digestion and organ function.”

Aaron is a manual therapist, using movement techniques inspired by yoga, martial arts, chiropractic skills and more. He also hosts the popular Align Podcast, and wrote “The Align Method: A Modern Movement Guide for a Stronger Body, Sharper Mind, and Stress-Proof Life,” which shares the tools you need to reshape your environment for enhanced creativity and longevity.

Healthy movement incorporating play and adaptability enhances creativity, resilience and creates a healthy nervous system. During the show, Aaron goes over the five daily movements to integrate into your life and how to get started in a productive, gentle and playful way.

“Your body is so darn adaptable that if it's just a matter of you need to give it a baseline of the raw components to be healthy,” says Aaron. “If for a moment you're slouching over a chair, I love that. There's no problem with that, it's the repetition of that. If for a movement you're looking into a wall or into a blue light or whatever, you're not going to just explode.”

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