The lead author of the study, David Sanbonmatsu, told the NPR blog Shots in January of 2013, “People don’t multitask because they’re good at it. They do it because they are more distracted. They have trouble inhibiting the impulse to do
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“But he learned more from the river than Vasudeva could teach him. He learned from it continually. Above all, he learned from it how to listen, to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinions.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“Travell and Simons describe a trigger point as simply a small contracture knot in muscle tissue”
― The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief
― The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief
“Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.” “Are you jesting?” asked Govinda. “No, I am telling you what I have discovered. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“The only way to reliably verify whether a specific trigger point is causing a specific pain is to deactivate the trigger point and see if the pain remains.”
― The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief
― The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief
“It helps to know that trigger points form in specific places, where the motor nerve comes into the muscle to tell the muscle to do its job. This location is not always tender. It hurts only when a trigger point is present, and then only when pressed on. So, when practicing self-applied trigger point massage, you don’t have to go by what your fingers palpate—feel for the place that hurts.”
― The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief
― The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief
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