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Dynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters! – Podcast Episode 12
Dynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters!
Welcome back to the 12th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
Today’s episode titled “Dynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters!” will tell you how I cracked the code of central fixation of the body.
Occasionally sitting for meditation in an ideal static posture to activate all these codes for a limited duration of time was not a realistic alternative.
SKELETAL LEAP, the mind body connection for mind and body healing, is a giant leap that our skeleton can take through the way it postures its joints.
I had stumbled upon this miracle many years ago, coincidentally.
Dynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters! - Show Notes
In this enlightening episode of Skeletal Leap, titled “Dynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters!”, Laadi Ojas shares his revolutionary insights on maintaining core stability throughout daily life.
Drawing from personal experiences and the evolution of human movement, Laadi emphasizes the importance of centering the body's gravity to achieve optimal efficiency in all actions.
Discover how the human body's unique bipedalism has shaped our physical capabilities and learn about the intricate relationship between our core muscles and overall performance.
Laadi explains how the core, located just below the belly button, plays a pivotal role in our stability and movement, and how strengthening this area can lead to remarkable improvements in both physical and mental activities.
This episode dives into:
Dynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters! - Chapters
Chapters:
(00:00:01) - Homo sapiens: The Skeletal Leap
Dynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters! - Subscribe to Skeletal Leap Newsletter
Get my book ‘Eyesight To Insight Memoir’ FREE when you Subscribe to Skeletal Leap Newsletter: https://www.SkeletalLeap.com/newsletter
Dynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters! - Video
Dynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters! - Transcript with Timestamps
0:00:01.120,0:00:06.080
Obesity throughout the world has
assumed a debilitating stature
0:00:06.080,0:00:25.680
making its scale even larger than a pandemic.
My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal
0:00:25.680,0:00:34.160
Leap: A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap
transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.
0:00:34.160,0:00:40.720
Today’s episode will tell you how I cracked the
code of instant central fixation of the body.
0:00:41.360,0:00:46.640
After having cracked all these codes and
activating them in a focused observant
0:00:46.640,0:00:53.680
posture that was not moving in space with time,
I needed to generalize them under conditions of
0:00:53.680,0:01:00.240
movement throughout the day involving not
only the body but also the mind. I needed
0:01:00.240,0:01:06.640
to be equally focused and observant to keep them
active while doing all kinds of my daily chores
0:01:06.640,0:01:14.240
whether casual like washing utensils or critical
like fighting with someone on road. Occasionally
0:01:14.240,0:01:20.320
sitting for meditation in an ideal static posture
to activate all these codes for a limited duration
0:01:20.320,0:01:27.760
of time was not a realistic alternative. All these
codes needed to remain active all through the day
0:01:27.760,0:01:34.600
throughout the life. An hour of meditation would
never be able to compensate for the rest twenty
0:01:34.600,0:01:41.680
three hours of anti-meditative action of life.
It all needed to be an integral part of whatever
0:01:41.680,0:01:49.840
I did, whenever I did and wherever I did. For
this, I needed to understand the movement of
0:01:49.840,0:01:55.920
body in space and the movement of
mind in time in deeper details.
0:01:55.920,0:02:04.160
I chose the movement of body in space, first. It
needed to remain stable while making any kind of
0:02:04.160,0:02:12.960
movement. The animal movement wouldn’t be able to
provide much insight into the human movement. The
0:02:12.960,0:02:18.400
reason was that the animals carried all their body
weight either on four or more of their legs like
0:02:18.400,0:02:25.840
in mammals and insects or on their entire body
like in birds in the sky, reptiles on earth and
0:02:25.840,0:02:33.680
water animals in the sea. Humans were different.
We had chosen to balance our body weight only on
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two feet, turning the rest two into hands through
our ancestors as long as 4-7 million years ago.
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Once we changed our body orientation from
horizontal to vertical, our organs including
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our skeleton, brain, muscles, nerves and
blood vessels started a new journey of bipedal
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evolution. The changes involved new arrangement
and size of foot bones, hip size and shape,
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knee size, leg length, shape and orientation
of vertebral column and the skull orientation.
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With the help of newly evolved larger heels,
the foot increased in size. This enabled it
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to work like a platform on which the body
weight could easily rest. It also turned
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the toes smaller than before as they were no
more used to grasp things like tree trunks.
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Foot as a platform didn’t evolve as a
flat surface but did so as an arched one.
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This arching distributed the body weight on feet
from their heels to the balls of the feet behind
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the big toes. Such a weight distribution
conserved a lot of energy while walking.
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Human knee joints also evolved to support the
increased body weight on just two of them,
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as opposed to four before, owing to bipedalism.
The degree of knee extension, meaning the angle
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between the thigh and the shank in the walking
cycle, decreased. This change called double
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knee action reduced energy lost by vertical
displacement of the center of gravity. It
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enabled Homo sapiens to keep their knees straight
right under the body, improving its balance.
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Evolution, driven by bipedalism changed the length
of Homo sapiens’ legs since they were the only
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ones to function with an upright gait. Leg muscles
became the ones that gave a push, through their
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ankles, to the action of walking. Longer legs
also gave an effortless swing to the steps without
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using the muscles every time. Since forelimbs no
more played any role in the action of walking,
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they were freed to be used for other activities.
Bipedal evolution provided Homo sapiens with upper
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limbs for visually guided manipulation and lower
limbs for mechanically guided bipedal gait. It
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also optimized the location of the body’s
center of gravity. It further reorganized
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the internal organs and the biomechanics of the
trunk through a double S shaped vertebral column.
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The double S shape of the vertebral column became
an efficient shock absorber. The entire skeletal
0:05:37.840,0:05:43.360
system thus efficiently shifted the weight
of the upper body to the soles of the feet.
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Long, load bearing legs were also
very nicely optimized for bipedalism.
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All the large joints of the lower limbs got
aligned in a vertically oriented straight line.
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Bipedalism also resulted in larger hip joints than
before to better support the entire body weight.
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It made the hip shorter and broader, bringing
the vertebral column closer to itself. This
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re-arrangement provided a more stable base for
the support of the trunk while walking upright.
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The size of the gluteus muscles increased
as well, enabling Homo sapiens to assume a
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balanced stance even on just one leg. The sacrum
turned broader, thus increasing the opening of
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the birth canal in the females of the species.
Today, the vertebral column of adult Homo sapiens,
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in its natural posture, has two secondary
posteriorly concave bends in its lumbar and
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cervical regions. They are called secondary
because they develop after birth. On the
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other hand, it has two primary anteriorly concave
bends in its sacrococcygeal and thoracic regions.
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They are called primary because they
retain the original fetal curvature.
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Together, these four bends give rise to the
double S shape of the vertebral column. Without
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its posteriorly concave bend in its lumbar region
that develops as the child learns to sit upright,
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stand, and walk, the body would have
kept leaning forward. In that case it
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would have needed a huge effort to stand upright.
At the top, without its posteriorly concave bend
0:07:40.800,0:07:47.520
in its cervical region that develops as the infant
begins to hold their head upright when sitting,
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the head couldn’t have been held up straight.
The two anteriorly concave bends in the
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sacrococcygeal and thoracic regions have been
retained from the original fetal curvature.
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The posteriorly concave bend in the lumbar
region and the anteriorly concave bend in the
0:08:06.480,0:08:13.600
thoracic region keep the body straight. These
two bends do so by keeping body’s center of
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gravity vertically in line with its feet.
Also, during the bipedal evolution with an
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accelerated evolution of brain, the skull
changed in size and weight very fast as it
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changed to a vertical orientation freely
balanced on the vertebral column at its
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first vertebra named Atlas. These vertical
orientations of the skull and the vertebral
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column gave them more freedom to move these
parts in any desired direction and orientation.
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The size of the human brain that kept
increasing all this while also played
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a very big role in bipedal evolution. It went
3-4 times larger, for its body size, than that
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of its nearest evolutionary relative, chimpanzee.
Today, all these new arrangements have turned us
0:09:06.640,0:09:13.520
way more susceptible to go off-balance with the
slightest deviation in posturing our vertically
0:09:13.520,0:09:21.440
oriented body from the way it has been designed.
It happens when our body’s center of gravity no
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more remains vertically in line with its feet. In
such scenarios we tend to stumble even if we don’t
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really fall down outright. The more we are able
to keep our body’s center of gravity vertically
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in line with its feet, the more stable we remain
in our movements that we keep making all day long.
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That’s why we need to center our body and
keep that centering intact while we are
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making movements. The quadrupeds don’t need to
be bothered about it since they have a large
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base to support their body weight which never
lets them stumble or fall. We humans gave away
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that benefit to opt for the enhanced freedom
of movement that we achieved as its result. But
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freedom always comes with responsibility. It has
become our responsibility today to keep our center
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intact while making all kinds of movements. If we
fail to do so, we are forced to compromise while
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making the movements we need to make. It not only
makes our body less efficient but also our mind
0:10:35.120,0:10:42.880
through losing our focus on the action in hand.
I looked for the center of my body that I needed
0:10:42.880,0:10:50.000
to keep vertically in line with its feet intact
in space while making complex movements that
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took the other parts of my body away from the
center. We humans have gone unaware of it,
0:10:57.760,0:11:02.640
especially so because we don’t keep our
vertebral column postured the way it has
0:11:02.640,0:11:09.920
been designed to keep our body’s center of
gravity vertically in line with its feet.
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This center is what we call the core located in
our abdomen around two inches below the belly
0:11:15.840,0:11:24.080
button. The muscles around this point in the body
allow us to keep it intact and the stronger they
0:11:24.080,0:11:31.600
are, the better goes the quality of all our
movements. They build up our core strength
0:11:31.600,0:11:37.840
to get centered at the core which is the most
efficient way to do any action even with our
0:11:37.840,0:11:45.200
limbs in conjunction with our core.
Let me give you an example here.
0:11:45.200,0:11:51.600
My performance in an unofficially popular sport
called armwrestling had alway been exceptional
0:11:51.600,0:11:59.200
since my early childhood. It was not that I
was very strong in my arms but whoever I played
0:11:59.200,0:12:07.120
it with could never defeat me. At times, these
challengers were with large and strong muscles in
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their arms but they would invariably lose whenever
they played it with me. They were surprised but no
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more than I too was. I could never analyze what
it was that made me win every time. Of course, it
0:12:25.600,0:12:33.200
did give me a psychological confidence that later
started playing an extra role in making me win.
0:12:33.200,0:12:41.520
But that could never be the only factor. Moreover
this factor had entered much later in the scene.
0:12:42.400,0:12:48.160
It wasn’t always there when I started
my winning spree. Hence it couldn’t be
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given the sole credit of it.
At this point of time when I
0:12:53.120,0:12:58.880
started locating the center of my body, I
suddenly discovered that I had already been
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utilizing it for much of my benefit all through my
life. Although I never consciously did so but it
0:13:06.880,0:13:14.240
happened on its own very spontaneously as and
when I sat down for a bout of armwrestling. I
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could now very well see which muscles around my
core I used along with using the muscles in my
0:13:20.400,0:13:29.680
arm. And using them along with the muscles in my
arm had made me almost invincible in this sport.
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Yes, if we keep our core intact with the help of
strong muscles around it in a habitual manner,
0:13:37.200,0:13:43.280
we will turn invincible in whatever we do
through making ourselves entirely focused on
0:13:43.280,0:13:49.920
that particular action. And it was this that
I had been doing unknowingly in a habitual
0:13:49.920,0:13:56.480
manner while armwrestling with others.
Once I discovered cracking the code of
0:13:56.480,0:14:02.880
instant central fixation of the body, I started
using it in all the movements I made with the
0:14:02.880,0:14:09.920
help of any other muscles in any part of my
body. The results were spectacular increasing
0:14:09.920,0:14:17.360
my efficiency in whatever I did since then.
In fact, Joseph Pilates had already worked on
0:14:17.360,0:14:23.120
this approach through correcting the spine posture
in the earlier part of the 20th century improving
0:14:23.120,0:14:31.600
the body balance considerably. He called it “a
mind-body exercise that requires core stability,
0:14:31.600,0:14:39.040
strength, and flexibility along with attention
to muscle control, posture, and breathing”.
0:14:39.840,0:14:45.600
The stronger the core muscles are and
more we use them to keep the core intact,
0:14:45.600,0:14:51.520
the better goes the performance of all
the rest of them in any part of the body.
0:14:51.520,0:14:56.880
The core muscles include…
Abdominal group of muscles
0:14:57.440,0:15:04.080
(rectus abdominis, internal and external
obliques, and transverse abdominis)
0:15:04.800,0:15:13.680
Erector spinae group of muscles
(iliocostalis, longissimus, and spinalis)
0:15:14.560,0:15:23.680
Pelvic floor group of muscles (coccygeus,
iliococcygeus, puborectalis, and pubococcygeus)
0:15:23.680,0:15:30.240
activates the diaphragmatic breathing
0:15:30.240,0:15:36.400
There are two approaches to centering the body.
One of them is strengthening the above-mentioned
0:15:36.400,0:15:44.080
muscles. But the second one, i.e., the habit of
using them while doing any movement in the body
0:15:44.080,0:15:49.840
plays a more important role as it strengthens
them while using them for balancing the body
0:15:49.840,0:15:56.400
at the same time. In fact, it’s a better way
to strengthen your core muscles – we need to
0:15:56.400,0:16:03.040
use them whether we are making a movement or
not. They already have some strength in them.
0:16:03.040,0:16:10.880
Hence the more we use them, the stronger they go
automatically. We get the best of both the worlds!
0:16:10.880,0:16:15.280
Download the code of instant central
fixation of the body in the ‘Resources’
0:16:15.280,0:16:22.560
section of SKELETAL LEAP BOOK 1, available
on: skeletalleap.com/themindbodyconnection
0:16:24.480,0:16:30.560
Centering the body even while not making any
movement has an additional benefit that’s as
0:16:30.560,0:16:37.520
valuable as its balancing effect turning body
stable. It is that it never lets the belly
0:16:37.520,0:16:45.040
fat get accumulated in the abdomen at all.
Obesity throughout the world has assumed a
0:16:45.040,0:16:52.800
debilitating stature making its scale even
larger than a pandemic. That’s why and how
0:16:52.800,0:16:59.520
the weight loss business has become one of
the most lucrative businesses the world over!
0:16:59.520,0:17:06.720
In general, it all starts with adding fat to the
belly in the beginning. And the best way to lose
0:17:06.720,0:17:13.360
belly fat is opening the solar plexus chakra in
conjunction with the root and the sacral chakras.
0:17:14.160,0:17:20.320
It turns our entire abdominal area between the
pelvis and thoracic diaphragm in a vertically
0:17:20.320,0:17:27.280
stretched and perfectly taut stance.
If all these three chakras are open,
0:17:27.280,0:17:34.400
it’s not possible for fat to get accumulated
on the belly. If it’s already present,
0:17:34.400,0:17:41.600
these three open chakras immediately start
melting it right then and there. And as it is
0:17:41.600,0:17:48.720
a 24 hour process, it loses belly fat much
faster than any other weight loss method.
0:17:48.720,0:17:56.240
Thanks for listening to this episode of Skeletal
Leap: A Living Adventure! In the next episode,
0:17:56.240,0:18:03.200
I will tell you how I cracked the code
of instant central fixation of the mind.
0:18:03.200,0:18:09.280
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By Laadi OjasDynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters!
Welcome back to the 12th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
Today’s episode titled “Dynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters!” will tell you how I cracked the code of central fixation of the body.
Occasionally sitting for meditation in an ideal static posture to activate all these codes for a limited duration of time was not a realistic alternative.
SKELETAL LEAP, the mind body connection for mind and body healing, is a giant leap that our skeleton can take through the way it postures its joints.
I had stumbled upon this miracle many years ago, coincidentally.
Dynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters! - Show Notes
In this enlightening episode of Skeletal Leap, titled “Dynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters!”, Laadi Ojas shares his revolutionary insights on maintaining core stability throughout daily life.
Drawing from personal experiences and the evolution of human movement, Laadi emphasizes the importance of centering the body's gravity to achieve optimal efficiency in all actions.
Discover how the human body's unique bipedalism has shaped our physical capabilities and learn about the intricate relationship between our core muscles and overall performance.
Laadi explains how the core, located just below the belly button, plays a pivotal role in our stability and movement, and how strengthening this area can lead to remarkable improvements in both physical and mental activities.
This episode dives into:
Dynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters! - Chapters
Chapters:
(00:00:01) - Homo sapiens: The Skeletal Leap
Dynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters! - Subscribe to Skeletal Leap Newsletter
Get my book ‘Eyesight To Insight Memoir’ FREE when you Subscribe to Skeletal Leap Newsletter: https://www.SkeletalLeap.com/newsletter
Dynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters! - Video
Dynamic Core Stability Gets You READY to Challenge Masters! - Transcript with Timestamps
0:00:01.120,0:00:06.080
Obesity throughout the world has
assumed a debilitating stature
0:00:06.080,0:00:25.680
making its scale even larger than a pandemic.
My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal
0:00:25.680,0:00:34.160
Leap: A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap
transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.
0:00:34.160,0:00:40.720
Today’s episode will tell you how I cracked the
code of instant central fixation of the body.
0:00:41.360,0:00:46.640
After having cracked all these codes and
activating them in a focused observant
0:00:46.640,0:00:53.680
posture that was not moving in space with time,
I needed to generalize them under conditions of
0:00:53.680,0:01:00.240
movement throughout the day involving not
only the body but also the mind. I needed
0:01:00.240,0:01:06.640
to be equally focused and observant to keep them
active while doing all kinds of my daily chores
0:01:06.640,0:01:14.240
whether casual like washing utensils or critical
like fighting with someone on road. Occasionally
0:01:14.240,0:01:20.320
sitting for meditation in an ideal static posture
to activate all these codes for a limited duration
0:01:20.320,0:01:27.760
of time was not a realistic alternative. All these
codes needed to remain active all through the day
0:01:27.760,0:01:34.600
throughout the life. An hour of meditation would
never be able to compensate for the rest twenty
0:01:34.600,0:01:41.680
three hours of anti-meditative action of life.
It all needed to be an integral part of whatever
0:01:41.680,0:01:49.840
I did, whenever I did and wherever I did. For
this, I needed to understand the movement of
0:01:49.840,0:01:55.920
body in space and the movement of
mind in time in deeper details.
0:01:55.920,0:02:04.160
I chose the movement of body in space, first. It
needed to remain stable while making any kind of
0:02:04.160,0:02:12.960
movement. The animal movement wouldn’t be able to
provide much insight into the human movement. The
0:02:12.960,0:02:18.400
reason was that the animals carried all their body
weight either on four or more of their legs like
0:02:18.400,0:02:25.840
in mammals and insects or on their entire body
like in birds in the sky, reptiles on earth and
0:02:25.840,0:02:33.680
water animals in the sea. Humans were different.
We had chosen to balance our body weight only on
0:02:33.680,0:02:41.200
two feet, turning the rest two into hands through
our ancestors as long as 4-7 million years ago.
0:02:42.560,0:02:48.560
Once we changed our body orientation from
horizontal to vertical, our organs including
0:02:48.560,0:02:55.760
our skeleton, brain, muscles, nerves and
blood vessels started a new journey of bipedal
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evolution. The changes involved new arrangement
and size of foot bones, hip size and shape,
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knee size, leg length, shape and orientation
of vertebral column and the skull orientation.
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With the help of newly evolved larger heels,
the foot increased in size. This enabled it
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to work like a platform on which the body
weight could easily rest. It also turned
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the toes smaller than before as they were no
more used to grasp things like tree trunks.
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Foot as a platform didn’t evolve as a
flat surface but did so as an arched one.
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This arching distributed the body weight on feet
from their heels to the balls of the feet behind
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the big toes. Such a weight distribution
conserved a lot of energy while walking.
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Human knee joints also evolved to support the
increased body weight on just two of them,
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as opposed to four before, owing to bipedalism.
The degree of knee extension, meaning the angle
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between the thigh and the shank in the walking
cycle, decreased. This change called double
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knee action reduced energy lost by vertical
displacement of the center of gravity. It
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enabled Homo sapiens to keep their knees straight
right under the body, improving its balance.
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Evolution, driven by bipedalism changed the length
of Homo sapiens’ legs since they were the only
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ones to function with an upright gait. Leg muscles
became the ones that gave a push, through their
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ankles, to the action of walking. Longer legs
also gave an effortless swing to the steps without
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using the muscles every time. Since forelimbs no
more played any role in the action of walking,
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they were freed to be used for other activities.
Bipedal evolution provided Homo sapiens with upper
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limbs for visually guided manipulation and lower
limbs for mechanically guided bipedal gait. It
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also optimized the location of the body’s
center of gravity. It further reorganized
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the internal organs and the biomechanics of the
trunk through a double S shaped vertebral column.
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The double S shape of the vertebral column became
an efficient shock absorber. The entire skeletal
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system thus efficiently shifted the weight
of the upper body to the soles of the feet.
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Long, load bearing legs were also
very nicely optimized for bipedalism.
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All the large joints of the lower limbs got
aligned in a vertically oriented straight line.
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Bipedalism also resulted in larger hip joints than
before to better support the entire body weight.
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It made the hip shorter and broader, bringing
the vertebral column closer to itself. This
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re-arrangement provided a more stable base for
the support of the trunk while walking upright.
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The size of the gluteus muscles increased
as well, enabling Homo sapiens to assume a
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balanced stance even on just one leg. The sacrum
turned broader, thus increasing the opening of
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the birth canal in the females of the species.
Today, the vertebral column of adult Homo sapiens,
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in its natural posture, has two secondary
posteriorly concave bends in its lumbar and
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cervical regions. They are called secondary
because they develop after birth. On the
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other hand, it has two primary anteriorly concave
bends in its sacrococcygeal and thoracic regions.
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They are called primary because they
retain the original fetal curvature.
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Together, these four bends give rise to the
double S shape of the vertebral column. Without
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its posteriorly concave bend in its lumbar region
that develops as the child learns to sit upright,
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stand, and walk, the body would have
kept leaning forward. In that case it
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would have needed a huge effort to stand upright.
At the top, without its posteriorly concave bend
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in its cervical region that develops as the infant
begins to hold their head upright when sitting,
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the head couldn’t have been held up straight.
The two anteriorly concave bends in the
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sacrococcygeal and thoracic regions have been
retained from the original fetal curvature.
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The posteriorly concave bend in the lumbar
region and the anteriorly concave bend in the
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thoracic region keep the body straight. These
two bends do so by keeping body’s center of
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gravity vertically in line with its feet.
Also, during the bipedal evolution with an
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accelerated evolution of brain, the skull
changed in size and weight very fast as it
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changed to a vertical orientation freely
balanced on the vertebral column at its
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first vertebra named Atlas. These vertical
orientations of the skull and the vertebral
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column gave them more freedom to move these
parts in any desired direction and orientation.
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The size of the human brain that kept
increasing all this while also played
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a very big role in bipedal evolution. It went
3-4 times larger, for its body size, than that
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of its nearest evolutionary relative, chimpanzee.
Today, all these new arrangements have turned us
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way more susceptible to go off-balance with the
slightest deviation in posturing our vertically
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oriented body from the way it has been designed.
It happens when our body’s center of gravity no
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more remains vertically in line with its feet. In
such scenarios we tend to stumble even if we don’t
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really fall down outright. The more we are able
to keep our body’s center of gravity vertically
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in line with its feet, the more stable we remain
in our movements that we keep making all day long.
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That’s why we need to center our body and
keep that centering intact while we are
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making movements. The quadrupeds don’t need to
be bothered about it since they have a large
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base to support their body weight which never
lets them stumble or fall. We humans gave away
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that benefit to opt for the enhanced freedom
of movement that we achieved as its result. But
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freedom always comes with responsibility. It has
become our responsibility today to keep our center
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intact while making all kinds of movements. If we
fail to do so, we are forced to compromise while
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making the movements we need to make. It not only
makes our body less efficient but also our mind
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through losing our focus on the action in hand.
I looked for the center of my body that I needed
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to keep vertically in line with its feet intact
in space while making complex movements that
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took the other parts of my body away from the
center. We humans have gone unaware of it,
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especially so because we don’t keep our
vertebral column postured the way it has
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been designed to keep our body’s center of
gravity vertically in line with its feet.
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This center is what we call the core located in
our abdomen around two inches below the belly
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button. The muscles around this point in the body
allow us to keep it intact and the stronger they
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are, the better goes the quality of all our
movements. They build up our core strength
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to get centered at the core which is the most
efficient way to do any action even with our
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limbs in conjunction with our core.
Let me give you an example here.
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My performance in an unofficially popular sport
called armwrestling had alway been exceptional
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since my early childhood. It was not that I
was very strong in my arms but whoever I played
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it with could never defeat me. At times, these
challengers were with large and strong muscles in
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their arms but they would invariably lose whenever
they played it with me. They were surprised but no
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more than I too was. I could never analyze what
it was that made me win every time. Of course, it
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did give me a psychological confidence that later
started playing an extra role in making me win.
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But that could never be the only factor. Moreover
this factor had entered much later in the scene.
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It wasn’t always there when I started
my winning spree. Hence it couldn’t be
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given the sole credit of it.
At this point of time when I
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started locating the center of my body, I
suddenly discovered that I had already been
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utilizing it for much of my benefit all through my
life. Although I never consciously did so but it
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happened on its own very spontaneously as and
when I sat down for a bout of armwrestling. I
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could now very well see which muscles around my
core I used along with using the muscles in my
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arm. And using them along with the muscles in my
arm had made me almost invincible in this sport.
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Yes, if we keep our core intact with the help of
strong muscles around it in a habitual manner,
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we will turn invincible in whatever we do
through making ourselves entirely focused on
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that particular action. And it was this that
I had been doing unknowingly in a habitual
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manner while armwrestling with others.
Once I discovered cracking the code of
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instant central fixation of the body, I started
using it in all the movements I made with the
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help of any other muscles in any part of my
body. The results were spectacular increasing
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my efficiency in whatever I did since then.
In fact, Joseph Pilates had already worked on
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this approach through correcting the spine posture
in the earlier part of the 20th century improving
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the body balance considerably. He called it “a
mind-body exercise that requires core stability,
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strength, and flexibility along with attention
to muscle control, posture, and breathing”.
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The stronger the core muscles are and
more we use them to keep the core intact,
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the better goes the performance of all
the rest of them in any part of the body.
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The core muscles include…
Abdominal group of muscles
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(rectus abdominis, internal and external
obliques, and transverse abdominis)
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Erector spinae group of muscles
(iliocostalis, longissimus, and spinalis)
0:15:14.560,0:15:23.680
Pelvic floor group of muscles (coccygeus,
iliococcygeus, puborectalis, and pubococcygeus)
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activates the diaphragmatic breathing
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There are two approaches to centering the body.
One of them is strengthening the above-mentioned
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muscles. But the second one, i.e., the habit of
using them while doing any movement in the body
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plays a more important role as it strengthens
them while using them for balancing the body
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at the same time. In fact, it’s a better way
to strengthen your core muscles – we need to
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use them whether we are making a movement or
not. They already have some strength in them.
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Hence the more we use them, the stronger they go
automatically. We get the best of both the worlds!
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Download the code of instant central
fixation of the body in the ‘Resources’
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section of SKELETAL LEAP BOOK 1, available
on: skeletalleap.com/themindbodyconnection
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Centering the body even while not making any
movement has an additional benefit that’s as
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valuable as its balancing effect turning body
stable. It is that it never lets the belly
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fat get accumulated in the abdomen at all.
Obesity throughout the world has assumed a
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debilitating stature making its scale even
larger than a pandemic. That’s why and how
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the weight loss business has become one of
the most lucrative businesses the world over!
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In general, it all starts with adding fat to the
belly in the beginning. And the best way to lose
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belly fat is opening the solar plexus chakra in
conjunction with the root and the sacral chakras.
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It turns our entire abdominal area between the
pelvis and thoracic diaphragm in a vertically
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stretched and perfectly taut stance.
If all these three chakras are open,
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it’s not possible for fat to get accumulated
on the belly. If it’s already present,
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these three open chakras immediately start
melting it right then and there. And as it is
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a 24 hour process, it loses belly fat much
faster than any other weight loss method.
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Thanks for listening to this episode of Skeletal
Leap: A Living Adventure! In the next episode,
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I will tell you how I cracked the code
of instant central fixation of the mind.
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