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SPORTS INJURIES

The meaning of order, rules and orderliness can be better understood by comparing sports similar to one another, such as running on the long track and speed walking. Injuries that athletes get when running are common…

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CHRONIC PAIN ATTRIBUTED TO AGING

People attribute pain to aging and use old age as an excuse. But the AEQ method, a method of gentle conscious movements, does not recognize this concept, and in the workshops I explain how teachers of the…

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Children and breathing

Children should be breathing correctly unless they are ill. While almost every newborn baby breathes correctly, only a few of them keep it that way through their early childhood. Most children…

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THE AEQ METHOD AND PREGNANCY

How and why does the AEQ method benefit a pregnant woman, and what benefits does the body have during that time? The AEQ method understandably explains this and enables the perception of a woman’s real situation…

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The causes for chronic fatigue

A lack of liveliness despite an adequate amount of food, water, and oxygen is always the result of chronic muscle contraction and, thus, increased muscle tone, which is usually the result of repressed emotion…

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THE MEANING OF CHILDHOOD

We probably aren’t even aware of what and how much we had to learn in our childhood before we could begin to operate in the information system that makes up our world. For example, when we cross the right leg over the left…

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WHAT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY

Humanity was shaped through a struggle for survival caused by a lack of energy, not a lack of time; the body is adapted to this structure and function. Our lifestyle, mental health, and surroundings determine our psychophysical…

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UNDERSTANDING PAIN

The online Oxford dictionary defines pain as a “highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury”, and lists as its second meaning “mental suffering or distress”. Since pain can result from both…

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Overthinking

Overthinking is the act of thinking about something for too long. It’s seductive. The siren call of overthinking sounds something like this: If you keep overthinking things, if you keep thinking about unsolved…

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ENTROPY AND THE MEANING OF PAIN

Entropy (2nd law of thermodynamics) is the decay of a system and chaos. It is a temporal, gravitational, evolutionarily conditioned change from complex to simple. It means a change for the worse, into less order and complexity.

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IF I WERE A CHILD AGAIN, I WOULD…

Reading for stronger nerves: how does self-destruction work with the best of intentions? The resemblance to self-destruction in sports is no accident. Even in early childhood, a toddler has unmonitored access to the Internet and…

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REFLEX PATTERNS

Thomas Hanna recognized and defined three general reflex patterns, which are an adaptation of the body to stress. Anyone can recognize and feel them. But even though they are characteristic for humans, it doesn’t…

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THE BODY AND THE SIXTH SENSE

Most are only slowly moving into a new understanding of movement. So far, we’ve used exercise and sports to look better, be stronger, relax from everyday stress, or heal an injury. It is becoming increasingly clear that we can only achieve…

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INTEGRITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS

A person without consciousness would be like a robot: perfect in his movement, nor would he make too much or too little movement in unconditional goal orientation. He would feel no emotion and feeling and would be carefully protected…

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The causes for chronic fatigue

A lack of liveliness despite an adequate amount of food, water, and oxygen is always the result of chronic muscle contraction and, thus, increased muscle tone, which is usually the result of repressed emotion…

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HEALING INJURIES AND PREVENTING NEW ONES

In the treatment and reduction of the probability of recurrence of injury in the AEQ method, the rule is that the movement must first be normalized, then optimized, and finally improved. The injury alone, caused by sports, shows inconsistency, maladaptation and inefficiency in movement that would be optimal for this sport.

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CONTROLLING THE EGO

Life has been long and increasingly alienated from the body and the natural laws and rules by which the body must function. That’s why we constantly face more and more obstacles in a shorter period, which creates a larger need for the ego to intervene – that’s how the ego takes the main role in the body-subconscious-conscious system.

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GOOD PERFORMANCE IN SPORTS

As an experienced cyclist and a long-time owner of a bicycle shop, I have often observed the consequences of the wrong approach to sports and the wrong motive for success in sports with my clients. Most of the time, the runner wanted to buy a bike to relieve the knees and tendons, as he was advised – a friend, an orthopedist, a physiotherapist.

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