The core is an essential part of your physical strength and stability. You can also consider it to be the essence of the inner you, the place where you build inner strength and create the energy you use. This Powerhouse or Cradle is the initiator of any physical event your muscles experience or express. The muscles involved here are the ones that support the back and access the deeper abdominals, not just the six pack. A basketball player who has good core control can jump higher, shoot farther, and run faster. The same theory holds true for any sport.
In normal life, a strong core keeps our backs healthy and supported, as well as our shoulders and hip girdles working in symphony. If you have good core control, it can save you from injuries you might be susceptible to, such as being involved in a fall. In essence, good core control means good posture, strength, flexibility, and most of all, stability. In a similar way, you can use having a strong core as an analogy for building inner strength and energy for life.
You train your body and soul to pay attention to and appreciate YOU by building inner strength and energy. As you engage in the process of paying attention to the beauty of YOU, any lost motivation starts to build back up quickly. It’s the same thing we felt when we were kids playing and doing things we really liked. Feelings, actions and desires, which come from the innate individual you are, help to move you forward and make you excited!
Of course, it is not a one day or one week process. The beauty of this kind of journey is that the actual progress of feeling better, stronger, and more balanced motivates you to go further. When you train your Powerhouse to be stronger, you train your inner YOU to be stronger, as well.
Go to my 8 Minute Ball Workout and do the exercises a few times until you know them. Then try to do some of the moves while visualizing how the energy is created within. In the center of your core is a bright white light that warms your whole body and creates that uplifting feeling of joy. Move the “light energy” around in your body, send it through the room, and share it with people you love.
Good luck, let me know how it’s going, and Live Life Loud!
