Free your neck 2: Let your head go wherever it wants
Ignorance is no excuse under the law.
Your body acts according to very precise laws. If you break ’em, you pay the consequences (and there’s nothing I can do to change that). What I can do is to teach you those laws. Once you understand them, you can begin to work in harmony with them. How will this help you let your neck be free?
Most people can’t let their neck be free because they’re trying to place it at a ‘correct’ angle. Trying to place your head at any particular angle is asking for trouble. It’s asking for trouble because the position of your head depends on what you’re doing with the muscles that hold it. When you ignore what you’re already doing and try to super-impose that ‘correct’ head position, you’re doing two different things at once. The result is more tension than you already had — not nice.
So stop trying to put your head in that ‘correct’ position. Let your head go wherever it wants — even if you don’t want it to be there. In my next post I’m going to tell you how you can go on to encourage your head to want to be in the same position that you want for it.
Understand the laws of your body and make them work for you instead of against you.
Next: Free your neck 3: Apply the tube principle to your neck
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Next: Free your neck 3: Apply the tube principle to your neck
