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3 February

3 February · 20:31 UTC

That expression, to ‘unwind’ at the end of the day. Not well known I don’t think is that your body is arranged as helical spirals of muscle. Try this. Stand in a doorway and raise your arms so that you’re gently holding the top frame of the door, as in the pic (if you’re too short, you may need to stand on something - maybe a touch higher than in the pic, so your hand can press on the frame and wall above it). You want to be well extended, without deliberately ‘stretching’. And then just stand there like that for 5-10 minutes (or longer if you want), NOT trying to stretch anything. Don’t try to do a thing with your body (ignore the arrow in the pic), just let it do what it wants to do, and see what you feel. It may want to move a bit forward or back, let it, but don’t try to stretch it deliberately.

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