The Egoscue method of healthy living is a theory based on the make up of the human body. It is not a diet, an exercise routine or a self help theory; it is a theory based on observations of the way the body functions. This method will help you understand how to improve your health and keep your body healthy by simply using it in the manner it was built to be used in.
One of the main observations of this theory is that people "are not moving enough," and motion is an essential resource to the human body (Egoscue 1992, p.2). This seems like an obvious but overlooked fact because people move naturally all the time. I believe this must be true because people start moving less as the grow-out of childhood. As people stop moving so often they start to develop pain. The key to being physically healthy is to "keep moving" (Egoscue, 1992, p.3). The body is composed of muscles, and the more we use them the stronger they get. Many people complain that they aren't physically active because they have pain in their body, but have they ever thought maybe they have pain because they are not physically active?
A main factor that affects people is the way the body is composed. Many people do not realize that they are using their bodies in an inefficient manner. The body is made up of right angles, the spinal column, nerves, and muscles (Egoscue, 1992). It is important for use to realize how we use all of these components in order to use them in a way that is natural and healthy.
The body is made up of right angles; some examples of this are shoulders, hips, ankles, and knees. All of these parts of your body move at a right angle, but many people do not move them in the angle that they are meant to move. The spinal column is an amazing creation that "distributes the weight evenly from head to hip" (Egoscue, 1992 p.8). All of the right angles in your body are aligned parallel to each other and if something is wrong with one place it can cause pain in the other. "Nothing is wrong with the design; something is wrong with the function" (Egoscue, 1992, p.21). It seems that if the body is being used in the wrong way it will affect other areas. This is possible because the body is really one unit, and it does work as a whole.
In order to function optimally, and feel good while doing it we must realize that our bodies are built to be used in a certain way, and lack of use will also provide poor functioning.
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