I am glad you are finding these hand relax video helpful. Some if the tension habit likes to reside in the hands and arms. But to make the most change, I encourage you to look further upstream to the tensions of the torso. Address front, back and sides. You can look in greater resolution by considering the verticals of front back and sides, and also the diagonals of front back and sides. A shortcut (or a culimination) is to then focus on twisting (rotation) To change the tension habit takes a gentle repetition, practicing often to keep reminding the system that it doesn' have to be stuck in so much tension. Please let me know if you have questions, aha moments or other breakthroughs along your path. -Eric
I am glad you found it helpful. It is very important to realize that the forearm discomfort is a boiling over of the teachable torso tensions. I encourage you to look more upstream in you practice. This one is good, but alone, it is not enough. Next you can consider this video. It will show you how relaxing shoulder tension relaxes the hands and forearms: *Relax Tense Hands: A Somatics Sequence for Arthritis* 11m:33s This is not just for the hands, it also unburdens the neck. On youtube: th-cam.com/video/T1CPMfOg3i0/w-d-xo.html Then, it is of the utmost importance to look at your breathings space, in relation to the forearm problem. Consider *Elbows to the Sky, Sunrise Sunset + the X of the Front, The Side Bend, Yawn Your Wings* , and even *The Wishbone* . These larger movements will give your forearms some much needed slack. You can fine most of these movements in this playlist: *Start here. Begin your Somatics Experience Here playlist* : th-cam.com/play/PLFLw4vgr7ayiIX9O0hRsMwyxhaK4LTXXF.html In that list, it would be good to learn this movement and assessment: *Can Gentle TWISTING Free Your BREATHING? Gentle Slow, Simplest Twisting Washrag Full Version* 17m:12s Detailed front and side breathing assessment combined with an easy, slow twisting Somatic movement exercise th-cam.com/video/lfbeq1is-ns/w-d-xo.html The most basic assessment is to consider if your forearm issue is symmetrical, somewhat symmetrics, or asymmetrical in its expression. If it is at all asymmetrical, then movements that help your sides be in an easier relationship will help your forearms. Please let me know if you have questions or aha moments along the way. -Eric
I'm glad you found it helpful. If you can help your brain find that possibility-of-relaxed after a long day, then you don't have to take those tension to bed with you. Muscles time to be at rest in order to optimally support you in your life. Learn which lines get stuck and practice often. Thank you for you comment.
they must not be ready😢! i did it again, this time it seem to help with more of my arm and very little with my shoulder, i discovered with this movement that their was helped much of my arm and more, the pinky side of my wrist to my shoulder theirs a connection to my upper back shoulder i think , Eric do you know what are that would be.?
Sometimes the problem is further up stream. Tightness in the shoulders will cascade to the hands and wrists. Have you done this one: *Relax Tense Hands: A Somatics Sequence for Arthritis* 11m:33s This is not just for the hands, it also unburdens the neck. th-cam.com/video/T1CPMfOg3i0/w-d-xo.html If possible, focus on the torso, then out to the extremeties. Also try Kayak ribs and shoulders from this one and see if it effects the hands: *Standing Neck Help, Standing Neck Sequence 2023* th-cam.com/video/c3ojqB4pK2M/w-d-xo.html And one special assignment for you. I have some new understandings and I think this may address your specific tension in a different way. Can you try this one, but *reverse the breathing* , Big breath in as you contract, Exhale as you open: *Sunrise, Sunset + The X of the Front | OPEN your torso, AWAKEN your Twist, FREE your breathing* 12m:04s th-cam.com/video/pCa2oPXpT1A/w-d-xo.html The inhale should be like you are pulling the groin up into the rib cage. The inhale for this is like you are sniffing your upper ribs up to the side of you neck.
You can look at relaxing local details with videos like this. Personally, I like to relax big patterns of full body tensions before bed. The most important is to relax the front and the back before bed. Any of these are good for the front before bed: Elbows to the Sky part 1 th-cam.com/video/DudF1_WBcnc/w-d-xo.html Elbows to the Sky part 2 th-cam.com/video/ZsMwrSmnjkc/w-d-xo.html The X of the Front th-cam.com/video/jana_n1zFUY/w-d-xo.html The X of the Front plus Sunrise, Sunset th-cam.com/video/Aw0lRE8As2k/w-d-xo.html Any of these for the back: Whoa, Nellie th-cam.com/video/1DborO-mHcU/w-d-xo.html Yawn your Wings th-cam.com/video/Bs2hGQHvZWs/w-d-xo.html Oh, the places your back pocket can go th-cam.com/video/SeblFHleWlY/w-d-xo.html The Wisbone th-cam.com/video/IouK0vIPxwg/w-d-xo.html This video gets front and back: th-cam.com/video/Z1SP0S7mpyA/w-d-xo.html If you want to relax the system ever deeper, address the sides before bed. Side Bend Practice th-cam.com/video/HcYjAoXRdAk/w-d-xo.html The Side Bend th-cam.com/video/-CME4Ez7chg/w-d-xo.html If you have been sitting a lot, do this movement: Unsitting th-cam.com/video/wGhKFAoaiZI/w-d-xo.html
i felt more of my arms release tensions, but now my thumb is tense and which one of the ones you sent or have done here that can further the releases towards upper under arm armpit and chest, and back, ?
(This person has been a client of mine) Have you tried this one: The Sphinx: th-cam.com/video/kMrF07u1ogo/w-d-xo.html The twisting movements are linked to some of what you describe. Have you tried the: Amplified Angel Wing: th-cam.com/video/BOCIvUYDJ4w/w-d-xo.html Look carefully for stuckness in both the back and front as you try the Amplified Angel Wing both sides.
Incredibly helpful! So much relief in hands, lower and upper arms and my shoulders. Thank you SO much.
I am glad you are finding these hand relax video helpful. Some if the tension habit likes to reside in the hands and arms. But to make the most change, I encourage you to look further upstream to the tensions of the torso.
Address front, back and sides. You can look in greater resolution by considering the verticals of front back and sides, and also the diagonals of front back and sides.
A shortcut (or a culimination) is to then focus on twisting (rotation)
To change the tension habit takes a gentle repetition, practicing often to keep reminding the system that it doesn' have to be stuck in so much tension.
Please let me know if you have questions, aha moments or other breakthroughs along your path.
-Eric
Thank you so much! Helped my forearm pain. Very grateful!
I am glad you found it helpful.
It is very important to realize that the forearm discomfort is a boiling over of the teachable torso tensions. I encourage you to look more upstream in you practice.
This one is good, but alone, it is not enough.
Next you can consider this video. It will show you how relaxing shoulder tension relaxes the hands and forearms:
*Relax Tense Hands: A Somatics Sequence for Arthritis* 11m:33s
This is not just for the hands, it also unburdens the neck.
On youtube: th-cam.com/video/T1CPMfOg3i0/w-d-xo.html
Then, it is of the utmost importance to look at your breathings space, in relation to the forearm problem. Consider *Elbows to the Sky, Sunrise Sunset + the X of the Front, The Side Bend, Yawn Your Wings* , and even *The Wishbone* . These larger movements will give your forearms some much needed slack.
You can fine most of these movements in this playlist:
*Start here. Begin your Somatics Experience Here playlist* : th-cam.com/play/PLFLw4vgr7ayiIX9O0hRsMwyxhaK4LTXXF.html
In that list, it would be good to learn this movement and assessment:
*Can Gentle TWISTING Free Your BREATHING? Gentle Slow, Simplest Twisting Washrag Full Version* 17m:12s Detailed front and side breathing assessment combined with an easy, slow twisting Somatic movement exercise
th-cam.com/video/lfbeq1is-ns/w-d-xo.html
The most basic assessment is to consider if your forearm issue is symmetrical, somewhat symmetrics, or asymmetrical in its expression.
If it is at all asymmetrical, then movements that help your sides be in an easier relationship will help your forearms.
Please let me know if you have questions or aha moments along the way.
-Eric
@@ericcoopersomatics Thank you for the detailed reply. I will do these videos. Thank you again!
Great video! So helpful! Thanks!
I'm glad you took the time to look more deeply into the nature of your perception of movement.
Great video, I have always had trouble with my grip. What a big difference after completing these movements. Wow!
I'm glad you found it helpful. If you can help your brain find that possibility-of-relaxed after a long day, then you don't have to take those tension to bed with you. Muscles time to be at rest in order to optimally support you in your life. Learn which lines get stuck and practice often.
Thank you for you comment.
they must not be ready😢!
i did it again, this time it seem to help with more of my arm and very little with my shoulder, i discovered with this movement that their was helped much of my arm and more, the pinky side of my wrist to my shoulder theirs a connection to my upper back shoulder i think , Eric do you know what are that would be.?
Sometimes the problem is further up stream. Tightness in the shoulders will cascade to the hands and wrists. Have you done this one:
*Relax Tense Hands: A Somatics Sequence for Arthritis* 11m:33s
This is not just for the hands, it also unburdens the neck.
th-cam.com/video/T1CPMfOg3i0/w-d-xo.html
If possible, focus on the torso, then out to the extremeties.
Also try Kayak ribs and shoulders from this one and see if it effects the hands:
*Standing Neck Help, Standing Neck Sequence 2023*
th-cam.com/video/c3ojqB4pK2M/w-d-xo.html
And one special assignment for you. I have some new understandings and I think this may address your specific tension in a different way. Can you try this one, but *reverse the breathing* , Big breath in as you contract, Exhale as you open: *Sunrise, Sunset + The X of the Front | OPEN your torso, AWAKEN your Twist, FREE your breathing* 12m:04s th-cam.com/video/pCa2oPXpT1A/w-d-xo.html The inhale should be like you are pulling the groin up into the rib cage. The inhale for this is like you are sniffing your upper ribs up to the side of you neck.
What's a good movement to do to relax muscles before bed, Eric?
You can look at relaxing local details with videos like this. Personally, I like to relax big patterns of full body tensions before bed.
The most important is to relax the front and the back before bed.
Any of these are good for the front before bed:
Elbows to the Sky part 1 th-cam.com/video/DudF1_WBcnc/w-d-xo.html
Elbows to the Sky part 2 th-cam.com/video/ZsMwrSmnjkc/w-d-xo.html
The X of the Front th-cam.com/video/jana_n1zFUY/w-d-xo.html
The X of the Front plus Sunrise, Sunset th-cam.com/video/Aw0lRE8As2k/w-d-xo.html
Any of these for the back:
Whoa, Nellie th-cam.com/video/1DborO-mHcU/w-d-xo.html
Yawn your Wings th-cam.com/video/Bs2hGQHvZWs/w-d-xo.html
Oh, the places your back pocket can go th-cam.com/video/SeblFHleWlY/w-d-xo.html
The Wisbone th-cam.com/video/IouK0vIPxwg/w-d-xo.html
This video gets front and back:
th-cam.com/video/Z1SP0S7mpyA/w-d-xo.html
If you want to relax the system ever deeper, address the sides before bed.
Side Bend Practice th-cam.com/video/HcYjAoXRdAk/w-d-xo.html
The Side Bend
th-cam.com/video/-CME4Ez7chg/w-d-xo.html
If you have been sitting a lot, do this movement:
Unsitting th-cam.com/video/wGhKFAoaiZI/w-d-xo.html
i felt more of my arms release tensions, but now my thumb is tense and which one of the ones you sent or have done here that can further the releases towards upper under arm armpit and chest, and back, ?
(This person has been a client of mine)
Have you tried this one:
The Sphinx: th-cam.com/video/kMrF07u1ogo/w-d-xo.html
The twisting movements are linked to some of what you describe.
Have you tried the:
Amplified Angel Wing: th-cam.com/video/BOCIvUYDJ4w/w-d-xo.html Look carefully for stuckness in both the back and front as you try the Amplified Angel Wing both sides.