Gravity

As Marty McFly said in the movie Back to the Future..."That's Heavy!"
That was my reaction when reaching an epiphany of sorts during my MovNat training last night that relates to movement in general - physically and in life!



Evolutionarily, our first obstacle/opponent/challenge is ourself. Do you have the Will to get closer to that bottle of milk, or that object you just have to slobber all over? With all babies I've been around the answer is a resounding "Yes!"
I'm reminded of my soon to be 3-year-old son who my wife pointed out that his first method of locomotion was not crawling, not rolling, but scooting! You'd see him 5 feet from the sofa just sitting there looking around; kinda indifferent if not bored. Few minutes later he was still sittin the same way; maybe facing different direction. If you weren't paying attention though it would be difficult to notice he might be a half a foot closer to the sofa. Several minutes later he'd be 2 feet from the sofa; seeming to just be enjoying where he was; no big deal. Then you'd see him right by the sofa...where someone had left his rattle, bottle, whatever sitting there the whole time! And he would be wide-eyed, drooling, & overjoyed! It took him what for most kids would seem forever, but he had the will we're all born with to achieve what he wanted...overcoming the fact that he hadn't really learned to move in what we would consider conventional methods: rolling or crawling..or walking & running.

Then we learn to overcome things that try to keep us down. First it's gravity's pull on us. We start to learn to shift & transfer our body's weight so that gravity doesn't keep us down, or stuck in one place; even learning how it helps us move. Typically the first progression is rolling. Then, crawling. Then standing. Then walking...where we can spend the most time problem solving...figuring out, at least compared to rolling and crawling.  After spending some time there we're either "jumping" (at times better yet bobbing), or we're running.

In less than a year of life we learn to overcome our own limitations.
Then life happens. Just as we can't remember the many little firsts without someone else telling us a story about it, we tend to forget the lessons of independence and individuality we first learned as a baby:

We can achieve what ever we want to...even if doesn't happen right away. And if we learn how to work with things that oppose us (like gravity) instead of struggling excessively against it, we can get where we need to with the amount of tension we need without adding more ourselves unnecessarily . Continuously believing in ourselves, and going with the flow by focusing on what's happening right then.