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One Path Osteopathy and Movement Coaching

Locality: Hornsby, New South Wales

Phone: +61 466 382 344

Address: 10 Muriel Street 2077 Hornsby, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.onepathosteopathy.com

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23.01.2022 Meditation is a skill. I find a lot of people have given it a try and don’t find it helpful..within the first week. If you were taking up an new sport and weren’t great after the first week I’m hoping you would have the resilience to stick at it a little longer! Meditation sporadically does help...whilst you are meditating. You get a little peace in the mind whilst you take some time out of your day to yourself...but that’s about it. Meditating once a day is great. You are de...finitely going to notice the effects of this, but really, whilst learning a new skill it’s best to saturate yourself as much as you can in it. You need to dive deep into any new learning experience...if you were learning to play tennis and only practiced once a week you aren’t ever going to become an expert. Meditation allows you to become an expert of your own mind...that sounds pretty important right? I recommend 2 meditation sessions a day to really get to grips with this new skill..you are going to be shit at it for a while...just keep at it...how long you continue this depends on how you are feeling..this makes serious headway into a lot of issues people are facing these days. Once you feel better and start to get to ‘master’ the practice DO NOT stop. Hopefully you take a shower every day, you wash the dirt off your body..meditation is like washing the dirt from your mind. If you stop showering the dirt soon accumulates again. As such, meditate at least once a day...preferably for around 20 minutes. This is maintenance for your mind. Another piece of advice I found really useful is when your mind keeps going off to thinking, imagine falling back away from those thoughts. I always find I can go much deeper with this visualisation technique. Simple but effective. I personally love the Headspace app. For me to keep up a regular practice I need something to hook me in. The app keeps a score of your ‘Run streak’.. the amount of consecutive days in a row you meditate for. That’s enough competition for me to keep me in! How many days can you meditate in a row for? #meditation #menshealth #headspace #depression #anxiety #movember #peaceofmind #headspace

20.01.2022 Perfect Posture What is a perfect posture for sitting and standing? The question for me conjures up images of Stepford wives balancing books on their head, or my mum telling me to sit straight at the dinner table. Ergonomic assessments will tell us that sitting square on to the keyboard, with a 90 degree bend in the knees and elbows, blah, blah blah is the healthiest position to sit in. ... Bullshit! There is no such thing as a perfect posture. Why? Because to suggest that a single position is healthier than others is a complete misrepresentation of what the human body requires to stay out of pain and functioning well. There is no such thing as a perfect posture because a ‘posture’ is a static unmoving position. You could say that a perfect posture is a constantly moving posture. Is slouching in a chair good or bad for you? Yes, if you slouch all day. Just the same, sitting bolt upright in a chair has its own issues. Keep moving! Particularly if you spend the majority of your life sitting for work. Set a reoccurring alarm for every 10 minutes. When it goes off, change your position. Slouch, sit cross legged, lower your chair and drop one knee into a lunge position whilst still sitting on the chair, switch legs, even squat on your chair. There are a host of different positions you can achieve in a normal office chair. You might get a few weird looks off your colleagues but you’ll be way healthier and in less pain!

19.01.2022 It’s been a while since I last posted, but I’m feeling compelled to share some of the ideas that have come up for me over the last year, and particularly as it’s International men’s day today would like to call out to men as I feel that the change in culture and attitudes to men over the last few years and the media’s focus on women’s health has left men feeling their identities being eroded away. This is no good for either sexes because if men aren’t doing well, then neither... are women. I have had my own challenges over the last year, battling with depression and anxiety, and I’d like to share with you a little of my own journey of finding myself. . I have found that to navigate life, particularly in these modern times we need a Swiss Army knife of skills and tools to use, sometimes together to be effective. I personally have found that I need 4 different Swiss Army knives, each one with a whole collection of different tools. The 4 different knives relate to physical health, mental health, spiritual health and cultural health. . There is no one tool that will get you through life effectively. No one blade that will perform every task you need. There is a tendency to try a blade, and then throw it out because it doesn’t work rather than keep it tucked away for the future. I’ll discuss mental health first as I think this is perhaps one of the most important areas for men today and culturally in Australia the most disregarded by men. You can check out the suicide rates, homelessness rates, and drug abuse rates in men around Australia to see what I mean..all of these I have had too much personal experience of. I regularly recommend some health tools to my patients and I have realised I am guilty of handing out one tool at a time. I guess this comes down to the understanding of how busy people are, if I dump too much shit on them, they’ll do none of it. As healthcare practitioners we need to do better, people/men, we need to take more time to ourselves to properly show up in the world as the people we want to be Over the next few posts I’m going to share some of the tools I have used..try them but DON’T throw them away! They maybe useful later or in combination.

16.01.2022 New seminar for fighters and anyone who wants to learn to move better. Book now!

15.01.2022 There is a tendency to think that there is a linear progression out of mood states. That day by day, if you are on the right path, you’ll feel gradually better each day. With this in mind, if you wake up one morning feeling shit, then you must have taken the wrong direction and need to rethink your path. This is not the case. Coming out of a state of depression or anxiety is a pendulum. You’ll swing back and forth, sometimes without any rhyme or reason. This DOES NOT mean you... are on the wrong path. In fact, a pendulum needs to swing left to swing right, and you need to feel those lows to generate enough momentum to swing high. So how do you know that you are on the right path when the pendulum makes you feel lost as to whether your other health practices are working? The first thing, is that any work you have done with kicking depression is moving in the right direction. You’ve taken the bull by the horns, been proactive in whatever form of work you’ve been doing and that’s something to pat yourself on the back for, even in the low times. Also, by observing your pendulum you step back from the immediate emotional reaction of feeling bad. This can give you a separation from the way you are feeling..you can observe the mood from a bit of distance and not get wrapped up in it.

14.01.2022 Moving your body in complex ways feeds your body in so many different ways. Rather than focusing on individual muscles you can train movements which develop strength, condition your body and give you a cardio workout whilst also giving you: Mobility Balance Coordination ... Core stability Rhythm Timing Improved memory Skills Etc...... Group classes and individual personalised movement lessons now available at The Yoga and Health Collective in Mona Vale plus Movement Seminars in Hornsby Fitness First. (Free for One Path Osteopathy Clients). Newton Faulkner - I need something #northernbeaches #monavale #movement #yogaandhealthcollective #idoportal #truefitness #mobility #movewellthenmoveoften #trainingday #osteopathy

08.01.2022 Most people would not consider this to be a form of physical practice. For me, playing and singing is just the same as going to the gym. It is training a variety of movement principles that can then be applied to other movement tasks. Playing a musical instrument and singing can assist the development of movement principles such as timing, coordination, rhythm, and perhaps most importantly breathing. Remember that the word fitness must be used in conjunction with a task to a...ppreciate whether the practitioner is capable or ‘fit’ for something. For example, you might be fit for swimming, but unfit for running. Or fit for lifting weights but unfit for playing football. General fitness can therefore also be described as adaptability to a variety of tasks. Playing a musical instrument and bringing awareness to breath is a skill that most people wouldn’t specifically practice but features in so many different physical pursuits such as boxing, running, swimming, any cardio, weight lifting, yoga, Pilates.. It is also really important for everyday life...if you sit behind a desk for your working life then bring some awareness to how you breath, do you breath into the upper part of your chest or into your diaphragm? Singing encourages diaphragmatic breathing...something lots of people struggle with! A truly it person is adaptable to all physical requirements, not just can you lift heavy stuff and run long distances, so spread your movement practice wide...and include lots of things you are rubbish at, like singing or playing the guitar! Remember, learning something is a skill within its own right. The more you learn through your life, the faster you learn. #medicinesong #movewellthenmoveoften #idoportal #breathing #fitnessforlife #challengeyourself #practicemakesprogress #indreams #physicalpractice

07.01.2022 Next movement seminar is 2nd Feb 12-3pm at Fitness First Hornsby. This month we will be exploring concepts around training for longevity, joint resilience, taking order into chaos and mobility. Book now at www.onepathosteopathy.com. Only 8 places left.

07.01.2022 Find something you are shit at...and go and do it. The benefits of this philosophy are HUGE. I find most adults spend their lives resting on their laurels and never step out of their comfort zone. The old adage ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’ runs deeply in many of us but it just isn’t true. In fact, I prefer to think of it as ‘not learning new tricks makes us an old dog’. I have spent the last couple of years challenging my beliefs. Doing things that I really didn’t ...want to do, as a challenge for myself. The personal growth I have achieved from this has been immeasurable and I feel pretty much unstoppable now...nothing phases me. I have killed off my ego. This is my 3rd contemporary dance class at the Sydney Dance Company...walking into a class with many really good dancers and trying to keep up was one of the more intimidating things I have done recently. I now revel in that discomfort. In fact, until last year you wouldn’t have even been able to drag me onto a dance floor in a club! The movement principles behind dance feed into other stuff in life. Balance, coordination, rhythm, timing, movement memory etc all develop a more rounded physical capacity. I had so much resistance to dance that it is also challenging me mentally. Stepping into your discomfort willingly builds a more resilient capacity to deal with all the shit we get thrown at us in our lives. It makes you realise that you can keep going in the face of any adversity. Having a good laugh at how shit you are once in a while also opens your heart and soul. What do you find deeply uncomfortable? What do you tell yourself you could never do because of x,y or z? How are you limiting yourself by the story you tell yourself? #dance #sydneydancecompany #unstoppable #movement #idoportal #mentalhealth #balancedbody #beginner #shoshan #pain #outoftime #rhythm #coordination #timing #contemporarydance

05.01.2022 I know that if you have taken the time to read anything about mental health you will already have come across meditation but I wanted to add to this...as for me, and lots of my patients it seems like an unattainable goal, and the process of doing it simply makes you more frustrated. Meditation is great when you are already chilled out. I rate my stress levels from 0 to 100. Generally in bad times, it’s pretty normal for me to sit around 70. When I try and meditation from this... stress level my mind is banging around in my head so loudly that it feels like my brains are going to leak out my ears. I get more frustrated which pushes my stress levels up even more...can you relate? It’s tempting to just give up and think it’s not for you. There are several things about meditation that I have found useful in my own progress. Firstly and most importantly, if you are running on high stress...it’s not the time to meditate. You need to find something to bring you down from your 70/100 to around 30/100. This can be anything, going out for a run, screaming at the top of your lungs, punching the shit out of something, preferably not another human. Whatever your thing is it has to be easily accessible because you are going to use it a lot! My trick for this is to use something called the mammalian dive reflex. This is a natural reflex mammals have in response to submersion under water. By sticking your head under water you trick your body into a natural reaction that slows everything down. It’s a survival reflex, if you are under water you don’t want to be burning unnecessary oxygen so the body reacts by kicking off your ‘parasympathetic nervous system’ this is the calming system opposite to your sympathetic ‘fight or flight’ system that gears you up ready for a fight. My friends can tell when I’m going through difficult times because I leave my bath full of water. It’s preferably to fully submerge your body, but your head will do. Stick your head under water and breath out in a steady constant slow breath. Do this as many times as you need to...it really works. Then go meditate.. More in the next post...I hate the limited words on Instagram! #meditation #menshealth

04.01.2022 Do you hear the voices? The constant monologue that’s in the back of your head. Your inner voice that chatters away being negative about everything. I had it BAD. I’d walk around in public with my inner voice criticising everyone. I’d get increasingly wound up about all the injustices in the world. These injustices came through a filter of how I behave in public. I always try to be polite, so if someone doesn’t behave in a manner that I would consider acceptable the inner voi...ce goes to work. Silently tearing into the other person. . If you listen closely to this inner voice you may actually hear 3 different voices. They sound identical but it’s what they say that is different. These 3 voices are your ego, your pain body and you..the observer. . If you never really pay attention you’ll never notice who is talking to you. These voices have eyes that see through different lens...the ego and pain body’s eyes see through fogged up lens. These lens are fogged by your past. The trauma, the failings and the pain of life serve to blur your true clear image of the world. Your ego sees through judgement and expectation. If what is happening around you doesn’t conform to your expectations of how things/people/experience should be then it starts talking. Your pain body sees through the blur of fear. For men in particular this voice can be very confusing because you hear it when you are otherwise feeling brave. These eyes doubt...doubt that you are good enough, doubt you’ll succeed, doubt people care about my situation. You - it’s a quiet voice, particularly if you have anxiety and depression. It’s seeing the present moment...and this voice is saying ‘f@&k yeah this life is awesome.’ Actually I’m going to downplay that otherwise you won’t believe me...it’s saying ‘things aren’t that bad..’. . Only by stepping back from situations can we hear the difference between these voices. By all means, hear you ego and your pain body because if you don’t listen to them they will shout louder and louder, but realise that they aren’t always serving your best interests and aren’t seeing the world with clear eyes. #menshealth #movember #mentalhealth #wearethespace

03.01.2022 My personality type is ‘HSP HSS’ highly sensitive person, high sensation seeker. Because of this I generally jump in to things with both feet literally..most people do a skydive in their lives..I’ve done over 800. I ride a motorbike and get my kicks by putting myself at risk to experience intense sensation...(more on this in a later post) so when depression and anxiety hit I did exactly that..jumped into it. I remember a year ago when my life flipped upside down. A couple of ...failed relationships resulted in my losing pretty much my sense of who I was, in fact I didn’t know who i was...ever..I had just lived in the shadow of what other people expected of me, I lost what little community I had around me, and all of my self confidence. The pain was at some points unbearable to the point I knew I had to change something. I didn’t know what. So I picked one insecurity that I found by chance that was super painful for me. Dancing. I had a whole heap of preprogrammed thoughts about dance, I never did it. How ridiculous, that a movement teacher doesn’t dance but that was me. I felt so insecure that I thought if I were to even tap a foot then the world would be looking at me. As crazy as this sounds I knew that this step into my pain would open up a chasm that I could then pursue all my deepest insecurities, and it worked. . Now when I feel like something is going to be painful I tell myself ‘f@&k it,’ I’m going to do it because it is painful and there is a lesson at the end of every last bit of pain I have felt. Generally that lesson is that nobody gives a shit because they are so wrapped up in their own lives they don’t see yours. . I know this solution isn’t for everyone at first, if you are in your deepest despair it may be too much to jump in with both feet but if you just step a little closer to the pain you’ll see it turns to smoke and disappears. I love to dance now, the freedom of being the first on the dance floor allows me to look back at my former self and see the dramatic change I have undergone and to know the pain was worth it. What do you find uncomfortable and avoid in life?..go do it and see what happens!

01.01.2022 Yes I know this sounds crazy but pain is a tool, perhaps the most important one we have. Pain is a symptom not the cause but we get too wrapped up in it and forget that it indicates an underlying problem. Pain is a lesson...that’s all. If you just treat the pain, then your going to keep feeling it over and over because you haven’t treated the underlying issues that have brought it to the surface.... Pain can therefore be used as a tool and is not something to consider as bad. There is a quote I love by Jiddu Krishnamurti.. It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Society is f@&ked these days. To feel ok about what is going on around the world...technology, which has supposed to have brought us closer has created a distance from our fellow man to the point where people are more likely to film you crying in public than come and ask if you are ok. We live surrounded by all this sickness and to not feel pain is not normal. You have two options...to numb yourself against it, or develop a set of skills to increase your capacity to deal with the shit that gets thrown your way. Pain is largely the deciding factor in this. If the pain is minimal, the chances are, you’ll just numb yourself..if it’s intense you’ll investigate further and look for more tools in order deal with it. Pain is also your way out. You just need to step through it to realise that it can’t hurt you. For me, when I felt this pain it exposed so much shit for me I had no option but to push deeper. My first proactive step to deal with my pain was to intensify the pain, to sit with it. Put it under the microscope, in order to observe the preprogramming I had, the deeper core beliefs about myself, my insecurities and self loathing and realise that it’s bullshit that society has inprinted on me and not me.