RESISTANCE STRETCHING® offers immediate, cumulative, and permanent increases in flexibility; takes the pain out of stretching, and protects you from injuring yourself by over-stretching.
THE MERIDIAN FLEXIBILITY SYSTEM® provides stretches for 16 unique muscle groups with concomitant physiological and psychological benefits.FOUR KINDS OF BENEFITS: Physical, Spiritual, Emotional, and Psychological
There are physical, spiritual, emotional, and psychological benefits for RFST. People who have stretched for a while know that changes from Resistance Stretching are predictable and self-prescriptive. They can decide what they want to work on, do those stretches, and then reap the benefits they desire. The predictable changes and 'self-actualizations' from stretching are the hallmark of The Meridian Flexibility System.The Physical Benefits of Stretching
Flexibility determines how well you move and improves your posture.Your flexibility absolutely determines what movements you are able to make and how fast, accurate, and powerful those movements can be. That box on the top shelf suddenly becomes more 'reachable.' Your posture naturally becomes upright without any need for 'mental' reminders to 'sit up straight,' or 'stop slouching.'
Flexibility harnesses your strength, power, and endurance.
The ability of any muscle to shorten is directly controlled by its ability to lengthen! By increasing your flexibility, your muscles are then allowed to shorten and contract maximally this translates into increased power, speed, and acceleration.
Flexibility relieves pain, prevents injuries, and increases your comfortableness.
Many chronic as well as acute myo-fascial pains are the direct result of muscle shortness. Increase the length of your muscles, and watch your back, knee, elbow, etc. pain disappear forever. Increases in flexibility and strength also help to prevent future injuries.
Flexibility heals and overhauls your physiological health.
A flexibility 'perk' is that your internal health improves and in very specific and predictable ways. You'll find that each of the 16 different types of stretches has been reported by thousands of people to cause specific health improvements. Individualize your own stretching program based on your specific needs.
Flexibility makes you more youthful and solid.
Everyone who stretches regularly gets younger and better looking. Not only will you move and feel like a person with a much younger body, but you'll have a new tool at your disposal to modify and adjust your body so those aches and pains from aging become less intrusive or are erased completely.
Flexibility teaches you to rest and handle stress and distress.
When you know how to rest, you can build yourself because your body rebuilds itself during rest. Stretching teaches you how to embrace appropriate amounts of stress to challenge yourself and to remove undesirable stress and distress.
Flexibility teaches you how to protect yourself.
There are many ways to defend yourself and to keep good boundaries- 'stretching leads the way'. Learn that there is also no need to defend yourself if you are not being attacked.
Spiritual Benefits of Stretching
Flexibility is a reflection of your life.Every tension in your body is a reflection of how you live your life. Stretching allows you to experience the interconnections and the oneness to life and to powers greater than yourself.
Flexibility opens you to new awarenesses and perspectives.
Becoming more objective, viewing others and yourself from 'above' are trademarks of stretching. Learn to view others and yourself from both inside and outside yourself and balance your perspective.
Flexibility lets you be in your body and to enjoy being there.
Surprising that you can now feel specific parts of your physical body that you used to feel disconnected. You learn how to stay connected with your physical body and become less depersonalized. You also learn to value everyone's individuality.
Emotional Benefits of Stretching
Flexibility teaches you new ways to breathe.Every stretch you do enters you into being in a new position in life. In every new situation, you'll be asked to breathe differently. New ways of breathing literally morph your physical body. Breathing elevates your mood and affects your feelings of self-worth and self-esteem.
Flexibility shows you how to relax naturally and to use tension appropriately.
As you learn to resist maximally when stretching, your body will naturally employ greater levels of tension while simultaneously relaxing you. It takes unimaginable levels of tension to perform skilled movements and only by being emotional can this happen.
Flexibility brings up your good looks, beauty, image and likeableness.
Everyone wants to put forth his or her best face and body. Because stretching centers you emotionally and helps you to understand who you are from the inside-you light up on the outside glowing. Remove our tenseness and you'll find yourself liking yourself more.
Flexibility teaches you how to be fulfilled sexually.
Only by being emotionally available can you have satisfying sexual relationships. Mature emotionally into relationships that bring ultimate satisfaction.
Psychological Benefits of Stretching
Flexibility turns fear into knowing.Working on your body and learning how to overcome the fears you have associated with this, is a model for showing you how to handle other fears in life.
Flexibility shows you how to be clear and future minded.
Being flexible about your own areas of ignorance is your bridge to knowledge. Stretching helps you to aspire to greater levels of understanding, clarity and humor.
Flexibility teaches you how to better focus, prioritize, and concentrate.
Thinking is one thing, but holding the thought, keeping the focus, knowing where your attention is, and staying with what is important can all be learned from different stretches.
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