HOW TO SURVIVE IN FRONT OF A MONITOR: movement strategies in everyday life (Feldenkrais based)

Description

Working more and more often in front of a monitor makes us assume incorrect positions that cause physical problems going from a simple stiff neck to slipped discs. In a humorous way, this book wants to propose simple scientifically founded solutions which are easy to do in order to re-establish healthy body functionality and to better health by introducing a physical re-education method that is known and done throughout the world... --------- Chapters: Introduction. The Rules of the Game. How to Use this Book. The Mother of all Vices. Reeds in the Wind. The Eagle and the Bat. Becoming Aware. Change your Surroundings, Change your Life. Are we gazelles or lions? Some important concepts. A very Zen concept: Allostasis. The Big Gland. What can you do?... --------- From the first part of the book: "If 3,700,000 years ago, or the day before yesterday in the history of the universe, someone said to an Australopitecus Afarensis(1), while he was being chased in a Tanzanian field by a hungry saber-tooth cat or while he was climbing a cliff near the plateau of Hadar to capture a fat, succulent bat, that his great, great, great, great, great etc… grandchild would literally bring home the bacon staying seated 8 to 10 hours in front of a monitor and move one hand to click a mouse, he would probably goggle at the speaker and answer, “sgruntam?” , which means “Huh? What?” in Australopitecuseese. Of course that momentary distraction would be fatal for him in both cases." From the second part of the book: "In our society we are not undernourished, nor are we exterminated by epidemics and/or afflicted with parasitic diseases. We live long lives which slowly come undone. In fact, our society suffers from illnesses which slowly accumulate damage. These illnesses, such as strokes, heart attacks, tumors and heart disease, were much rarer at the beginning of the 20th century, yet as progress advanced, so did the types of illnesses and they way we perceive them… Science has started to put an accent on complex relationships between emotions, feelings, biology and physiology until a conclusion was drawn: emotions put a strain on our health. In other words, “stress” makes us get sick. Many gradual accumulation diseases have been correlated to stress. There are so many things that are stressful: work, taxes, traffic, bank accounts, mortgages, family... The more you add, the “better” it gets. But what if I said it's because of the way us egocentric primates think?” --------- **