Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.
The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.
Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.
I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet dancer, modern dancer. I still find myself doing some tumbling or interpretive dancing in the grocery store every now and then.
I am completely at my wits' end if I am unable to practice yoga for a few days at a stretch! Once you get into the flow it's difficult to leave it, precisely because of the way it affects your energy levels.
Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.
Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that.
I like to have this gut to put my elbow on it when I putt because I did it for so long. I just feel healthier this way.
Fortunately, good posture - like poor posture - is habit forming.
'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.
