{"id":208,"date":"2014-06-18T09:45:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T09:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirstenharris.co.uk\/thedailyease\/?p=208"},"modified":"2019-06-30T20:24:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T20:24:48","slug":"are-you-musterbating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifwisheswerehorses.co.uk\/thedailyease\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Are You &#8216;Musterbating?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Are you \u2018musterbating\u2019? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">I know I am! I must do this, I must do that!<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">I must, must, must\u2026.cut the grass, wash up, earn money, be more fabulous, write a blog, build a platform, \u00a0get fitter\u2026.fill in the blanks\u2026..<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">It\u2019s enough to drive a girl mad! The pressure I can put on myself, only serves to shorten and tighten me ultimately. Short breath, short muscles, short bursts of activity. In short!<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">I must stop \u2018musterbating\u2019!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Stopping really is an art. Knowing when to stop, spotting the moment to put down the brushes, not to speak, not to react. Stop and chill&#8230; But do we ever really practise stopping and \u00a0question what it means to stop. Consciously stopping in the moment for a breather, a moment of wonder, to just smile, to be grateful for simply being alive.\u00a0I&#8217;m a master of &#8216;mustology&#8217;! But stopping&#8230;\u00a0Stopping to let\u00a0my neck be free, my shoulders drop? Stopping to tune in to how I am. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Stopping is an amazing way to take care of yourself!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Or stopping in a more full-stop kinda way, by laying down on the floor in semi- supine for 15 or so minutes. The amazing\u00a0 Alexander Technique position of mechanical advantage, that very quickly restores your muscles into a lengthened resting state and\u00a0allows your intervertebral discs to rehydrate.\u00a0\u00a0The more often you rest in this way and do nothing the more you will get out of it! It\u2019s the art of non-doing\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">So guess what? I\u00a0must go and lie on the floor NOW! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you \u2018musterbating\u2019? I know I am! I must do this, I must do that!\u00a0 I must, must, must\u2026.cut the grass, wash up, earn money, be more fabulous, write a blog, build a platform, \u00a0get fitter\u2026.fill in the blanks\u2026.. 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