A connected leg - the bottom line

The pelvic floor, or the pelvic diaphragm as it alsa can be called, is the bottom of the abdominal cavity. The "true diaphragm" parts the abdominal cavity from the ribcage/chest. The chest is the place for heart and lungs (which I shall return to in a post about breathing, I'm soooo sick of all the talk about breathing with the belly!), in the abdomen we have all the organs that take care of everything we eat, the organs that cleanses the body and for us women, the uterus.

The pelvic floor consists of three muscles, the levator ani, coccygeus and piriformis muscle.


(Image from Wikipedia)

Pelvic floor muscles are not actively involved in movement, nevertheless tension in these muscles reduces the freedom of mobility in the hip joint.

The English have a wonderful expression for a person with stiff lips - "a thight assed person." How can it be possible to judge the thightness of someones ass with what you see around the mouth? The answer is to be found in the uterus, at a certain stage in our development we might be described as having a "worm like shape" with an opening for intake and an opening for outlet. (An embryo during pregnancy, 21 days, from Lennart Nilsson's book Life)



This means that if we go around with a tensed gluteus and pelvic floor muscles, it affects the muscles around the mouth. Try it yourself!

This also works the other way around and it may be important for women to know before giving birth. A mouth that gets tensed by groaning leads to a thightening of the pelvic floor and this in turn leads to a baby having to push its way through muscles that are resisting. For a rider clenched lips leads to tension in the pelvic region and suppleness is lost.

Now I have focused on a limited part of the body, the part where the trunk and legs meet. There is much more to say about how this area of ​​the body influences the body, both higher up and below - it is an intricate weave ...

I want you to give a conscious thought to the fact that it is important to remember that the body is more than just its individual parts, each body part is working in the space it is given/provided by other body parts and the mind set we let it work in. Stress, anger, frustration, anxiety, worry and fatigue are moods that affect the functionality in a negative direction. While serenity, joy, confidence and security makes it easier for the body to function well.

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."~~ Buddha

PST!
Here you find the first and the second posting on this subject.