You are as Old as Your Joints

A valuable reminder out of one of my textbooks called: Cranial Intelligence by Ged Sumner and Steve Haines:

“In the East longevity has been understood for a long time to be intimately linked to the mobility of joints. You are as old as your joints. Yoga and chi kung emphasize stretching and opening joints to create supple bodies and only then can prana or chi move through their channels properly.
Without stable, mobile joints your posture will not be optimal and there will not be a smooth transition of your weight through the joints, resulting in increased wear and tear. It is as if the body has a dynamic between suppleness and postural alignment versus poor posture, wear and tear, joint compensations, tension, lack of suppleness and rigidity. Along with that comes a decrease in energy, emotional contractions, mental rigidity and narrowing of perceptions.”

Craniosacral therapy can be used for joint rehabilitation, recovery from joint operations, supporting hip/knee replacement, knee injury, and joint diseases. Joints can recover from physical deterioration, as bone is constantly being remodelled in line with the forces present. All joints will be conducive to aligning back to the original blueprint of health if the conditional forces affecting the joint are resolved. Even someone with chronic osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis will try to make the right moves back to health. It does not matter how chronic the condition is, the body can move towards greater health. The possibility of health is never lost, it is the imperative of life. Shut down, low potency (vitality), physical restriction, pain, degeneration – all of these phenomena may be the healthiest options available to the system at a given point in time. Yet, the body has no choice but to respond to a deeper interaction with the breath of life – the point of stillness and realignment achieved in a craniosacral treatment; however, the degree of response is down to the individual’s overall health, constitution and internal awareness.