So ...

[rydra_wong]

What's movement for you right now?

Pointless? A resource? Calming/energizing? Something that costs too many spoons? A distraction? A way of owning your body? Impossible? Preparation for fight or flight? Selfish? Self-care? All of the above? None of the above? Something else completely?

ETA: please feel free to interpret "right now" as widely or narrowly as you want, whether that's "right now" as in "at this point in my life" or as in "in the last couple of weeks, in the face of the US election results and other world events". I was thinking of the latter when I wrote this, but either is valid.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Too many spoons, but also self-carey? Because I have to stretch when I get stiff, if nothing else.

...I'm way too sedentary.

[spiralsheep]

I've been struggling for breath outside because of the cold dry air (damp's better for my breathing), and then pacing inside because I have excess physical energy for once. I'm certainly not going to complain about having "too much" energy though, heh.

It's a pity I can't offer someone a small energy transfusion like a blood transfusion!

[premchaia_pre4]

Near-impossible due to disarray and inertia. This probably isn't helping the overall noisy disconnection from somatic things I've started getting again.

[rmc28]

My main movement practice now is walking. It is:

* My method of commuting.
* Calming and centring.
* Rebuilding my fitness after cancer and chemotherapy.
* Rebuilding my sense of ownership/presence in my body ditto.
* One of my daily meaning-making practices (as referred to in point 4 of http://siderea.livejournal.com/1321238.html?format=light).
* Definitely self-care, and perhaps selfish, but only in the oxygen-mask-on-first sense.
* Laying a foundation for more movement practices in future (next on the agenda is running; I am trying to look only one step ahead at the moment, but definitely on the list are swimming, climbing and dancing).

[keepmodes]

With purpose. I am stuck in the routine of doing the bare basics. To be blunt, I've been lazy. I need to start adding some yoga and fun walking to the routine.

[snippy]

Movement is power and agency. Movement is walking to pay the rent check now that my husband has moved out (he used to do it). Movement is walking to and from public transit on and off all day Saturday to do shopping and have fun (meals out, movie with my son). Movement is having balance, strength, and energy to cook (something I couldn't do while recovering from multiple major surgeries over the last 4 years).

Movement is independence.

[syderia]

It's a way to fight against apathy and to generate endorphins. And also, a way to try and feel at home in my body.

[recessional]

Unbelievably frustrating and difficult.

Am sore in ways that I am pretty sure are a combination of stress tension and somatization; am frustrated by what feels to me like a lack of any increase in endurance or stamina; remembering to do it is hard; I am tired and sad; my emotional responses to my bodily appearance would probably break comm rules to relate; argh someone shoot me.

Basically.

*sigh*

[cadenzamuse]

Movement is pretty difficult right now, although when I manage it, I tend to feel better afterwards. Movement is terrifying because the election has me back to near-agoraphobia: if I go outside, what bad thing will happen? (Reasonably, nothing. But tell that to my brain.) "Freeze" is my primary trauma response, so the effort of convincing my body that something else will be more helpful is both directly against the inertia and really health-ful if I manage it.

There is a yoga studio 3 blocks from my house in an area that I walk comfortably after dark, so that may be my next investigation into movement.

[malnpudl]

Movement right now is...
- Walking
- Physical therapy for knees and hips
- Sanity
- Extremely painful
- My primary (and sometimes only) source of joy and positivism
- Wearing down my joints
- Strengthening my body so it can support my worn out joints
- Utterly necessary
- The best part of life

[vass]

Last couple of days I've been trying to knead out the head and neck tension, and (on the other end) trying to activate my glutes. That's a large muscle group that I tend to lose connection to easily, which can go completely numb at times, and which my hips/lower back/hamstrings/ITB tend to do the work for. So when they are firing, it gives the rest of that group a bit of a rest, and can cause a general reduction on my tension levels.

Standard advice on how to do this doesn't seem to work for me, so I've just been wiggling around clenching my butt and prodding my thighs and hips and butt so I notice which muscles are/aren't engaged.

Trying to psych myself up to doing some recon at the other swimming pool near enough that I could go there, to see if it's better than the one where I have a membership.

[snowynight]

Starting my C25K run. I have started the second week, and it's actually nice to run at my own pace and focus on the running itself.