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Vision Challenge
Byjack
Today I got a formal eye exam. The results are to be expected. I started using the computer a lot more, and I am very tired (from staying up late). My prescription is about half a diopter than 2-3 years ago.
My plan is to buy from Zenni optical (1.5 diopters lower) and if I am able to improve my vision from there, I will reach out to a bunch of eyewear boutiques to see if they will give me a deal for lots of lenses I want to buy.
My measurements are 143 mm for frame width, 15 mm bridge width, 132 mm temple arm, my PD is 64 mm.
I’m trying out these frames: https://www.zennioptical.com/p/unisex-fullrim-acetate-plastic-square-eyeglass-frames/2067?skuId=206725
Total came out to be about $52 dollars. I really need a better option if I get my vision better.
Measurement today is 11 cm. 100/11 = 9 diopters
So figures that the prescription came out higher today.
Vision Exam Challenge 1
Byjack
Today I booked at eye exam.
The date of the exam is Tuesday May 25th, which gives me about 6 days to prepare.
What I’m looking for this exam to do is to validate where I am visionwise and jumpstart my journey to better vision.
I’m going to be using the following ideas.
- Feel the feelings
- Don’t need to try to relax or try to tense, just notice the feelings and sensations
- Feedback loop
- Lots of vision tests to understand whether or not I’m improving or not
- Analogies
- Understand how vision works and try to strengthen and stretch where needed
- Use the same knowledge from stretching a good posture here (muscles work in groups)
Understing the Eye
According to this article, it says:
“When you look at things that are far away, muscles in your eye relax and your lens looks like a slim disc.
When you look at things that are close, muscles in your eye contract and make your lens thicker.”
So the key is to relax right? Well, yes and no. Muscles always work in groups. If certain muscles are constantly too tense, then there are certain muscles that must be weak (since if one set of muscles never relaxes, the other set must always be weak).
After researching further, I found the muscle responsible for focusing the lens of the eye. It’s called the ciliary muscle and it looks like it doesn’t actually work in pairs but is like smooth muscle tissue of the stomach.
An interesting article is here and I signed up for the guys course to see what was up.
Knee Mobility Challenge: Unit 1 Day 1
Byjack
Unit 1: Mobility | Day 1 – Surface Tissues
Because I was traveling and these exercises relaxed me immensely, I fell asleep very quickly after this. I ended up doing more of these exercises in the morning after. Myofascial release seems to target ligaments, muscles, and fascial which kinda makes sense, but today (13th). Today I will switch over to increasing mobility in the tendons and ligaments, so I wonder what will happen today that will be different.
Workpost 11: Mentalities for Happiness
Byjack
Today I woke up feeling pretty awful from going to bed at 4AM last night.
I was feeling super overwhelmed with many many things in my life.
Today, I chose to wake up slowly, get to work slowly, and here are some of the mentalities that helped me:
- Cleaning is incredibly healing. Any time of cleaning, cleaning your workspace, your body, your clothes, it all is very therapeutic.
- What can I do for future Jack. This is the Matthew McConnehey’s idea of leaving breadcrumbs. Instead of the common idea of letting your future self deal with a problem (let future Jack deal with the dishes, let future Jack deal with talking to this person) think about what you can do now to make your future self happier. This can look like everything from cleaning, to setting up a super nice workspace, cooking yourself a really good meal.
- Focus on challenge and growth. I think oftentimes I get overwhelmed because I think about how hard things are. What helps me is thinking about everything in terms of challenge and growth. How can I challenge myself? What can I do to grow?
- Live in the hierarchy of being true to oneself. I was talking to a friend the other day about hierarchies and choosing the right one (don’t compete in a hierarchy you don’t believe in such as money). I want to compete and live in a hierarchy of being honest and true to myself.
I still feel a quite a bit of stress of the difficult conversations I’m anticipating, and the difficult tasks I have in front of me.
Unwelcome World
I feel sometimes
I am living in a world
Where every step is heavy
But the gravity only pulls on my heart
And the future feels unknown
Scary and not comfy
Knee Mobility Challenge: Zion National Park
Byjack
It is about high time that I create a syllabus around my knee challenge like I did for Valorant and my Sova Art Competition. I want to increase strength and mobility in my right knee that got injured twice (torn ACL, meniscus and reconstructive surgery). Specifically I want to make it so I can hike in Zion National Park on the week of March 20th.
I have the following symptoms in the knee:
- Feeling of discomfort standing and walking for long periods of time
- Pain when trying to bend fully
- Feeling of instability and fear of overextending the knee
- Pain when sleeping on my side
I did have a lot of initial success in reducing scar tissues using a lot of gua sha, massage and scar gel. I do believe a lot of my pain in my knee is from the sticky scar tissue that is reducing mobility. These initial efforts actually made it easier for me to sleep on my side without lots and lots of pain.
As per usual. I will design this class with one mentality. Make it so its hard for me to fail.
Days until Zion trip: 9
Unit 1: Mobility
- Day 1 – Surface Tissues
- Day 2 – Tendons and Ligaments
- Day 3 – Muscles and Joints
Unit 2: Strength
- Day 1 – Core
- Day 2 – Hips and Butt
- Day 3 – Quads and Calves
Unit 3: Recovery
- Day 1 – Cooling and antioxidation
- Day 2 – Cleansing and Fasting
- Day 3 – Fortifying and Nuition
Health Checkup 10/25/2021
Byjack
I feel worried about posting about this topic since it can be kind of gross.
However, I feel that physical health is one of the most important things to understand in life as it controls your energy levels, affects your mental strength, and dramatically affects your physical attractiveness or beauty.
Tracking and problem solving my health issues will not only help me but may provide inspiration for others.
Digestion
Symptoms: bloating, gas, diarrhea, distended belly, sensitivity to cold, stress, and exhaustion
Brainstorm:
- Raw ginger – seems to add an overall boost to blood flow (yang qi) and stomach circulation
- Farmhouse Culture Gut Shots – tastes absolutely disgusting, feels like it may actually help
- Unlocking/moving/stretching hips – ever since my knee injury, my hips are tight and contribute to the blockage in my stomach
- Stomach massage – helps smooth out the knots and blockage points
- Increase overall circulation – qi gong, running and cardio all help increase overall circulation and remove blockages overall
- Activate digestion while eating – eat slower and smell food more
- Eat less – to 70% fullness
Current Focus:
I need to improve my baseline before going after a specific treatment plan. The baseline will focus on two basic areas: overall circulation, reducing strain. The goals need to be very small so they are easy to maintain.
- Circulation – eat ginger every morning, run around the block once every morning (minimum 5 min)
- Reducing strain – focus on eating as little as possible, meditate once in the morning and night (minimum 5 min)
Hair
Symptoms: thin hair (but seems to be thickening), itchy scalp, hair falling out, dandruff
Very strange that my hair is thickening but falling out at the same time. Pretty sure my massage is working but the new hair growing in is so thin it falls out easily.
Brainstorm:
- Vigorous scalp massage – increase blood flow and already thicken hair a great deal
- Wash hair – more often, with cold water and apple cider vinegar if possible to reduce inflammation and increase circulation
- Oil/fatty acids – use huge amounts of conditioner and castor oil to thicken hair and prevent breaking and falling out
Current Focus:
I need to cleanse and increase circulation
- Wash hair every day with cold water and apple cider vinegar, need to use lots of conditioner to counter the stripping effect of washing your hair too much
Knee (injury)
Symptoms: afraid to put pressure or impact, no feeling at surgery area, pain
Brainstorm:
- More movement – motion is lotion to the joints
- Increased muscle mass around the joint – muscle is needed to support the joint
- Gua sha – need to tear up the scar tissue around the area and increase blood flow
- Warmup/loosen hips – hips are too tight reducing range of motion
Current focus:
I need more circulation
- Gua sha (or graston) for at least 5 min per day
Posture and Alignment
Symptoms: jutting forward head, misaligned hips, shoulders rounded forward
Brainstorm:
- Cobra yoga pose – let the hips relax into better balance
- Wall posture exercises – strengthen back muscles
- Foam roller stretch – stretch chest muscles
- Practice standing/walking – try to establish perfect alignment
- Move joints more – joints are where everything attaches, moving the joints mean more relaxed and fluid movement
Current focus:
I need to see a chiropractor and also just slightly improve posture while doing things bad for posture (computer, phone):
- Find a chiropractor within my health insurance
- Focus on finding a comfortable way to look at the phone with head back (put your phone on your knees)
Vision
Symptoms: dry eyes, headaches (happens not very often), worsening vision
Brainstorm:
- Relax into looking farther – stretches eye muscles
- Move vision more – gets the eye muscles to work a little more
- Do more active sports – forces your eyes to focus on things moving and far away
- Blink more – resets the eyes
Current Focus:
I want to just relax my eyes more when looking at far away things, rather than trying to move closer.
Vision Challenge
Byjack
Today I got a formal eye exam. The results are to be expected. I started using the computer a lot more, and I am very tired (from staying up late). My prescription is about half a diopter than 2-3 years ago.
My plan is to buy from Zenni optical (1.5 diopters lower) and if I am able to improve my vision from there, I will reach out to a bunch of eyewear boutiques to see if they will give me a deal for lots of lenses I want to buy.
My measurements are 143 mm for frame width, 15 mm bridge width, 132 mm temple arm, my PD is 64 mm.
I’m trying out these frames: https://www.zennioptical.com/p/unisex-fullrim-acetate-plastic-square-eyeglass-frames/2067?skuId=206725
Total came out to be about $52 dollars. I really need a better option if I get my vision better.
Measurement today is 11 cm. 100/11 = 9 diopters
So figures that the prescription came out higher today.
Vision Exam Challenge 1
Byjack
Today I booked at eye exam.
The date of the exam is Tuesday May 25th, which gives me about 6 days to prepare.
What I’m looking for this exam to do is to validate where I am visionwise and jumpstart my journey to better vision.
I’m going to be using the following ideas.
- Feel the feelings
- Don’t need to try to relax or try to tense, just notice the feelings and sensations
- Feedback loop
- Lots of vision tests to understand whether or not I’m improving or not
- Analogies
- Understand how vision works and try to strengthen and stretch where needed
- Use the same knowledge from stretching a good posture here (muscles work in groups)
Understing the Eye
According to this article, it says:
“When you look at things that are far away, muscles in your eye relax and your lens looks like a slim disc.
When you look at things that are close, muscles in your eye contract and make your lens thicker.”
So the key is to relax right? Well, yes and no. Muscles always work in groups. If certain muscles are constantly too tense, then there are certain muscles that must be weak (since if one set of muscles never relaxes, the other set must always be weak).
After researching further, I found the muscle responsible for focusing the lens of the eye. It’s called the ciliary muscle and it looks like it doesn’t actually work in pairs but is like smooth muscle tissue of the stomach.
An interesting article is here and I signed up for the guys course to see what was up.
Knee Mobility Challenge: Unit 1 Day 1
Byjack
Unit 1: Mobility | Day 1 – Surface Tissues
Because I was traveling and these exercises relaxed me immensely, I fell asleep very quickly after this. I ended up doing more of these exercises in the morning after. Myofascial release seems to target ligaments, muscles, and fascial which kinda makes sense, but today (13th). Today I will switch over to increasing mobility in the tendons and ligaments, so I wonder what will happen today that will be different.
Workpost 11: Mentalities for Happiness
Byjack
Today I woke up feeling pretty awful from going to bed at 4AM last night.
I was feeling super overwhelmed with many many things in my life.
Today, I chose to wake up slowly, get to work slowly, and here are some of the mentalities that helped me:
- Cleaning is incredibly healing. Any time of cleaning, cleaning your workspace, your body, your clothes, it all is very therapeutic.
- What can I do for future Jack. This is the Matthew McConnehey’s idea of leaving breadcrumbs. Instead of the common idea of letting your future self deal with a problem (let future Jack deal with the dishes, let future Jack deal with talking to this person) think about what you can do now to make your future self happier. This can look like everything from cleaning, to setting up a super nice workspace, cooking yourself a really good meal.
- Focus on challenge and growth. I think oftentimes I get overwhelmed because I think about how hard things are. What helps me is thinking about everything in terms of challenge and growth. How can I challenge myself? What can I do to grow?
- Live in the hierarchy of being true to oneself. I was talking to a friend the other day about hierarchies and choosing the right one (don’t compete in a hierarchy you don’t believe in such as money). I want to compete and live in a hierarchy of being honest and true to myself.
I still feel a quite a bit of stress of the difficult conversations I’m anticipating, and the difficult tasks I have in front of me.
Unwelcome World
I feel sometimes
I am living in a world
Where every step is heavy
But the gravity only pulls on my heart
And the future feels unknown
Scary and not comfy
Knee Mobility Challenge: Zion National Park
Byjack
It is about high time that I create a syllabus around my knee challenge like I did for Valorant and my Sova Art Competition. I want to increase strength and mobility in my right knee that got injured twice (torn ACL, meniscus and reconstructive surgery). Specifically I want to make it so I can hike in Zion National Park on the week of March 20th.
I have the following symptoms in the knee:
- Feeling of discomfort standing and walking for long periods of time
- Pain when trying to bend fully
- Feeling of instability and fear of overextending the knee
- Pain when sleeping on my side
I did have a lot of initial success in reducing scar tissues using a lot of gua sha, massage and scar gel. I do believe a lot of my pain in my knee is from the sticky scar tissue that is reducing mobility. These initial efforts actually made it easier for me to sleep on my side without lots and lots of pain.
As per usual. I will design this class with one mentality. Make it so its hard for me to fail.
Days until Zion trip: 9
Unit 1: Mobility
- Day 1 – Surface Tissues
- Day 2 – Tendons and Ligaments
- Day 3 – Muscles and Joints
Unit 2: Strength
- Day 1 – Core
- Day 2 – Hips and Butt
- Day 3 – Quads and Calves
Unit 3: Recovery
- Day 1 – Cooling and antioxidation
- Day 2 – Cleansing and Fasting
- Day 3 – Fortifying and Nuition
Health Checkup 10/25/2021
Byjack
I feel worried about posting about this topic since it can be kind of gross.
However, I feel that physical health is one of the most important things to understand in life as it controls your energy levels, affects your mental strength, and dramatically affects your physical attractiveness or beauty.
Tracking and problem solving my health issues will not only help me but may provide inspiration for others.
Digestion
Symptoms: bloating, gas, diarrhea, distended belly, sensitivity to cold, stress, and exhaustion
Brainstorm:
- Raw ginger – seems to add an overall boost to blood flow (yang qi) and stomach circulation
- Farmhouse Culture Gut Shots – tastes absolutely disgusting, feels like it may actually help
- Unlocking/moving/stretching hips – ever since my knee injury, my hips are tight and contribute to the blockage in my stomach
- Stomach massage – helps smooth out the knots and blockage points
- Increase overall circulation – qi gong, running and cardio all help increase overall circulation and remove blockages overall
- Activate digestion while eating – eat slower and smell food more
- Eat less – to 70% fullness
Current Focus:
I need to improve my baseline before going after a specific treatment plan. The baseline will focus on two basic areas: overall circulation, reducing strain. The goals need to be very small so they are easy to maintain.
- Circulation – eat ginger every morning, run around the block once every morning (minimum 5 min)
- Reducing strain – focus on eating as little as possible, meditate once in the morning and night (minimum 5 min)
Hair
Symptoms: thin hair (but seems to be thickening), itchy scalp, hair falling out, dandruff
Very strange that my hair is thickening but falling out at the same time. Pretty sure my massage is working but the new hair growing in is so thin it falls out easily.
Brainstorm:
- Vigorous scalp massage – increase blood flow and already thicken hair a great deal
- Wash hair – more often, with cold water and apple cider vinegar if possible to reduce inflammation and increase circulation
- Oil/fatty acids – use huge amounts of conditioner and castor oil to thicken hair and prevent breaking and falling out
Current Focus:
I need to cleanse and increase circulation
- Wash hair every day with cold water and apple cider vinegar, need to use lots of conditioner to counter the stripping effect of washing your hair too much
Knee (injury)
Symptoms: afraid to put pressure or impact, no feeling at surgery area, pain
Brainstorm:
- More movement – motion is lotion to the joints
- Increased muscle mass around the joint – muscle is needed to support the joint
- Gua sha – need to tear up the scar tissue around the area and increase blood flow
- Warmup/loosen hips – hips are too tight reducing range of motion
Current focus:
I need more circulation
- Gua sha (or graston) for at least 5 min per day
Posture and Alignment
Symptoms: jutting forward head, misaligned hips, shoulders rounded forward
Brainstorm:
- Cobra yoga pose – let the hips relax into better balance
- Wall posture exercises – strengthen back muscles
- Foam roller stretch – stretch chest muscles
- Practice standing/walking – try to establish perfect alignment
- Move joints more – joints are where everything attaches, moving the joints mean more relaxed and fluid movement
Current focus:
I need to see a chiropractor and also just slightly improve posture while doing things bad for posture (computer, phone):
- Find a chiropractor within my health insurance
- Focus on finding a comfortable way to look at the phone with head back (put your phone on your knees)
Vision
Symptoms: dry eyes, headaches (happens not very often), worsening vision
Brainstorm:
- Relax into looking farther – stretches eye muscles
- Move vision more – gets the eye muscles to work a little more
- Do more active sports – forces your eyes to focus on things moving and far away
- Blink more – resets the eyes
Current Focus:
I want to just relax my eyes more when looking at far away things, rather than trying to move closer.
Vision Challenge
Byjack
Today I got a formal eye exam. The results are to be expected. I started using the computer a lot more, and I am very tired (from staying up late). My prescription is about half a diopter than 2-3 years ago.
My plan is to buy from Zenni optical (1.5 diopters lower) and if I am able to improve my vision from there, I will reach out to a bunch of eyewear boutiques to see if they will give me a deal for lots of lenses I want to buy.
My measurements are 143 mm for frame width, 15 mm bridge width, 132 mm temple arm, my PD is 64 mm.
I’m trying out these frames: https://www.zennioptical.com/p/unisex-fullrim-acetate-plastic-square-eyeglass-frames/2067?skuId=206725
Total came out to be about $52 dollars. I really need a better option if I get my vision better.
Measurement today is 11 cm. 100/11 = 9 diopters
So figures that the prescription came out higher today.
Vision Exam Challenge 1
Byjack
Today I booked at eye exam.
The date of the exam is Tuesday May 25th, which gives me about 6 days to prepare.
What I’m looking for this exam to do is to validate where I am visionwise and jumpstart my journey to better vision.
I’m going to be using the following ideas.
- Feel the feelings
- Don’t need to try to relax or try to tense, just notice the feelings and sensations
- Feedback loop
- Lots of vision tests to understand whether or not I’m improving or not
- Analogies
- Understand how vision works and try to strengthen and stretch where needed
- Use the same knowledge from stretching a good posture here (muscles work in groups)
Understing the Eye
According to this article, it says:
“When you look at things that are far away, muscles in your eye relax and your lens looks like a slim disc.
When you look at things that are close, muscles in your eye contract and make your lens thicker.”
So the key is to relax right? Well, yes and no. Muscles always work in groups. If certain muscles are constantly too tense, then there are certain muscles that must be weak (since if one set of muscles never relaxes, the other set must always be weak).
After researching further, I found the muscle responsible for focusing the lens of the eye. It’s called the ciliary muscle and it looks like it doesn’t actually work in pairs but is like smooth muscle tissue of the stomach.
An interesting article is here and I signed up for the guys course to see what was up.
Knee Mobility Challenge: Unit 1 Day 1
Byjack
Unit 1: Mobility | Day 1 – Surface Tissues
Because I was traveling and these exercises relaxed me immensely, I fell asleep very quickly after this. I ended up doing more of these exercises in the morning after. Myofascial release seems to target ligaments, muscles, and fascial which kinda makes sense, but today (13th). Today I will switch over to increasing mobility in the tendons and ligaments, so I wonder what will happen today that will be different.
Workpost 11: Mentalities for Happiness
Byjack
Today I woke up feeling pretty awful from going to bed at 4AM last night.
I was feeling super overwhelmed with many many things in my life.
Today, I chose to wake up slowly, get to work slowly, and here are some of the mentalities that helped me:
- Cleaning is incredibly healing. Any time of cleaning, cleaning your workspace, your body, your clothes, it all is very therapeutic.
- What can I do for future Jack. This is the Matthew McConnehey’s idea of leaving breadcrumbs. Instead of the common idea of letting your future self deal with a problem (let future Jack deal with the dishes, let future Jack deal with talking to this person) think about what you can do now to make your future self happier. This can look like everything from cleaning, to setting up a super nice workspace, cooking yourself a really good meal.
- Focus on challenge and growth. I think oftentimes I get overwhelmed because I think about how hard things are. What helps me is thinking about everything in terms of challenge and growth. How can I challenge myself? What can I do to grow?
- Live in the hierarchy of being true to oneself. I was talking to a friend the other day about hierarchies and choosing the right one (don’t compete in a hierarchy you don’t believe in such as money). I want to compete and live in a hierarchy of being honest and true to myself.
I still feel a quite a bit of stress of the difficult conversations I’m anticipating, and the difficult tasks I have in front of me.
Unwelcome World
I feel sometimes
I am living in a world
Where every step is heavy
But the gravity only pulls on my heart
And the future feels unknown
Scary and not comfy
Knee Mobility Challenge: Zion National Park
Byjack
It is about high time that I create a syllabus around my knee challenge like I did for Valorant and my Sova Art Competition. I want to increase strength and mobility in my right knee that got injured twice (torn ACL, meniscus and reconstructive surgery). Specifically I want to make it so I can hike in Zion National Park on the week of March 20th.
I have the following symptoms in the knee:
- Feeling of discomfort standing and walking for long periods of time
- Pain when trying to bend fully
- Feeling of instability and fear of overextending the knee
- Pain when sleeping on my side
I did have a lot of initial success in reducing scar tissues using a lot of gua sha, massage and scar gel. I do believe a lot of my pain in my knee is from the sticky scar tissue that is reducing mobility. These initial efforts actually made it easier for me to sleep on my side without lots and lots of pain.
As per usual. I will design this class with one mentality. Make it so its hard for me to fail.
Days until Zion trip: 9
Unit 1: Mobility
- Day 1 – Surface Tissues
- Day 2 – Tendons and Ligaments
- Day 3 – Muscles and Joints
Unit 2: Strength
- Day 1 – Core
- Day 2 – Hips and Butt
- Day 3 – Quads and Calves
Unit 3: Recovery
- Day 1 – Cooling and antioxidation
- Day 2 – Cleansing and Fasting
- Day 3 – Fortifying and Nuition
Health Checkup 10/25/2021
Byjack
I feel worried about posting about this topic since it can be kind of gross.
However, I feel that physical health is one of the most important things to understand in life as it controls your energy levels, affects your mental strength, and dramatically affects your physical attractiveness or beauty.
Tracking and problem solving my health issues will not only help me but may provide inspiration for others.
Digestion
Symptoms: bloating, gas, diarrhea, distended belly, sensitivity to cold, stress, and exhaustion
Brainstorm:
- Raw ginger – seems to add an overall boost to blood flow (yang qi) and stomach circulation
- Farmhouse Culture Gut Shots – tastes absolutely disgusting, feels like it may actually help
- Unlocking/moving/stretching hips – ever since my knee injury, my hips are tight and contribute to the blockage in my stomach
- Stomach massage – helps smooth out the knots and blockage points
- Increase overall circulation – qi gong, running and cardio all help increase overall circulation and remove blockages overall
- Activate digestion while eating – eat slower and smell food more
- Eat less – to 70% fullness
Current Focus:
I need to improve my baseline before going after a specific treatment plan. The baseline will focus on two basic areas: overall circulation, reducing strain. The goals need to be very small so they are easy to maintain.
- Circulation – eat ginger every morning, run around the block once every morning (minimum 5 min)
- Reducing strain – focus on eating as little as possible, meditate once in the morning and night (minimum 5 min)
Hair
Symptoms: thin hair (but seems to be thickening), itchy scalp, hair falling out, dandruff
Very strange that my hair is thickening but falling out at the same time. Pretty sure my massage is working but the new hair growing in is so thin it falls out easily.
Brainstorm:
- Vigorous scalp massage – increase blood flow and already thicken hair a great deal
- Wash hair – more often, with cold water and apple cider vinegar if possible to reduce inflammation and increase circulation
- Oil/fatty acids – use huge amounts of conditioner and castor oil to thicken hair and prevent breaking and falling out
Current Focus:
I need to cleanse and increase circulation
- Wash hair every day with cold water and apple cider vinegar, need to use lots of conditioner to counter the stripping effect of washing your hair too much
Knee (injury)
Symptoms: afraid to put pressure or impact, no feeling at surgery area, pain
Brainstorm:
- More movement – motion is lotion to the joints
- Increased muscle mass around the joint – muscle is needed to support the joint
- Gua sha – need to tear up the scar tissue around the area and increase blood flow
- Warmup/loosen hips – hips are too tight reducing range of motion
Current focus:
I need more circulation
- Gua sha (or graston) for at least 5 min per day
Posture and Alignment
Symptoms: jutting forward head, misaligned hips, shoulders rounded forward
Brainstorm:
- Cobra yoga pose – let the hips relax into better balance
- Wall posture exercises – strengthen back muscles
- Foam roller stretch – stretch chest muscles
- Practice standing/walking – try to establish perfect alignment
- Move joints more – joints are where everything attaches, moving the joints mean more relaxed and fluid movement
Current focus:
I need to see a chiropractor and also just slightly improve posture while doing things bad for posture (computer, phone):
- Find a chiropractor within my health insurance
- Focus on finding a comfortable way to look at the phone with head back (put your phone on your knees)
Vision
Symptoms: dry eyes, headaches (happens not very often), worsening vision
Brainstorm:
- Relax into looking farther – stretches eye muscles
- Move vision more – gets the eye muscles to work a little more
- Do more active sports – forces your eyes to focus on things moving and far away
- Blink more – resets the eyes
Current Focus:
I want to just relax my eyes more when looking at far away things, rather than trying to move closer.