{"id":11098,"date":"2015-07-08T23:52:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T03:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/?p=11098"},"modified":"2015-07-09T03:06:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T07:06:29","slug":"how-to-relax-your-feet-to-improve-your-martial-healing-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/?p=11098","title":{"rendered":"How to Relax Your Feet to Improve Your Martial & Healing Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Experience Exchange \u7ecf\u9a8c\u4ea4\u6d41]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

How to Relax Your Feet to Improve Your Martial & Healing Arts<\/h2>\n

By Raven Cohan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arches and the entire foot are improved not by tightening feet, but by relaxing them. The challenge is that most people need to learn how to be very specific about concentrating on the placement of nine points of the feet. (In Chinese understandings nine is a very important and empowered number. The nine points include: the heel, the the outer edge, the two balls and the five toes.)\"foot<\/a><\/p>\n

There is the big ball of your foot that is under the big and second toe. The small ball is under the rest of the toes. Touch and even massage, those areas with your finger tips and you will learn that the big ball FEELS stronger than the other, despite the fact that the area it covers is not as broad as the small ball. You might simply sit on a chair with your feet flat on the floor, to enable relaxing your legs. If you\u2019re short, put some blocks or books at an even height under your feet and at the level where your knees are across from your your hip joints. Place your feet down lightly as if into warm, damp cement where you hope to make a print into which every toe revealed is elongated fully.<\/p>\n

Before you may stand, place all nine points of the two feet on the floor.\u00a0 The best surface is wooden.\u00a0 Tiles tend to be too cool, but they will have to do.\u00a0 Rugs are too soft. Sand and lawns are uneven and hide your toes.\u00a0 Walk and focus on opening each toe on to the surface\u00a0\u00a0only after placing the heel, big balls and toes, through to the outer edge. Please don\u2019t look down.\u00a0 Look straight ahead. My observations show me that many students cannot do that well, perhaps for months and even a year. Before you try any walking exercise, you\u00a0\u00a0do well to spend a good amount of time ONLY stretching your toes apart from each other.\u00a0 Then you can go on through the following numbered points:\"feet_flowers\"<\/p>\n

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  1. As you begin to place the heel, big ball and outer edge, separate your toes as well as you\u00a0now\u00a0can. On many people, the smaller toes want to be lazy. All your toes are spread and separated to point\u00a0up away from the surface. Be patient. Hurry might disappointment you with results that might not be the best just yet.<\/li>\n
  2. Once you are well able to place down your big toe after it\u2019s ball underneath it\u00a0and the small ball,\u00a0add in placing the second, third, fourth and pinky consecutively.\u00a0 (If your toes feel as if they are glued together you\u2019ll need to practice separating them for a long time. Ten to fifteen minutes a day and perhaps quite more is going to produce results. Close and open them like spokes of an old fashioned hand-held fan.\u00a0 Do that sitting in a chair.\u00a0 Eventually you begin to feel that the toes can separate one at a time. Please practice.) Simply believe that you are doing a renovation of unused property. That\u2019s true. You have never used your toes well, because normally people just don\u2019t know they need improvement .<\/li>\n
  3. As you continue on the same foot after having placed the nine points, one by one\u00a0\u00a0you won\u2019t be the first who might need to slow down and just do as well as you can. Keep encouraging yourself to continue stretching the distances between\u00a0the toes.<\/li>\n
  4. Next, work with the placement of the Big toe awhile, over and over again.\u00a0 Then at last, (maybe after two to four weeks of daily practice\u2026) you might begin actually walking in that way.\u00a0 After you have practiced enough you can begin to feel that your toes are being sunk into damp cement.\u00a0 Stay bare-footed. If you were to see your footprints as you do on a shore of a beach, all of your toes would seem more elongated than most other, average prints. In the summer, take advantage of looking at people’s toes in their sandals, if you have no beach nearby.\u00a0 An estimate of how many people crunch up their toes might be as much as 90% of average people. Is it because so many of us are greatly stressed out? We all can break that habit with healthy practice.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As you finish placing those points, bend your knee and commit fully with your weight. \u00a0 Trust that you are supported by your nine energy bodies down in mother earth.\u00a0 Make certain the knee bends over the arch, (no more and no less.)\u00a0 Mother Earth offers you her gravity for free.\u00a0 Let her hold you up, and let go of as many muscles as you can. Trust her.<\/p>\n

    Many people can be so tense when they walk they wind up saying this lie to themselves:”I DON”T HAVE ANY BALANCE.” No person need fall into such a \u2018monkey mind\u2019 belief. Just enable yourself to slow down and learn to walk better.<\/p>\n

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    \"OLYMPUS<\/a>Raven Cohan enjoys writing\u00a0about the Tao practices she\u00a0loves to do and teach, (as a\u00a0certified, Senior Instructor of\u00a0Universal Healing Tao of\u00a0Grand Master Mantak Chia.)
    \nShe has written dozens of published\u00a0articles and has been\u00a0working eleven years on a
    \nbook and keeps hoping she\u00a0will finish it soon. She teaches\u00a0in Hollywood, in S. Florida. \u00a0Raven\u2019s upcoming book, will have many more detailed exercises. This article will be part of it. Look at her website at     http:\/\/<\/a><\/em>www.taoTLC.com<\/a>\u00a0for news of its publishing.<\/p>\n

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