A balanced diet and lifestyle is absolutely necessary for good health. Some even say balancing the yin and yang energy within your body and left and right parts of your brain is the key to greater wellbeing. Is your body in balance?
Try these two simple tests:
1. Lie down with your eyes closed, in a position you feel is "straight". Open your eyes and look at your feet. Are they directly in front of you, or slanted towards one side?
2. Stand upright with each foot on a separate weighing scale. Is your body weight evenly distributed between the two scales?
A body imbalance often occurs because of poor posture, injury or even old age. And when your body is out of balance, you'll often feel tired, develop aches and pains and be prone to gaining weight easily. Strengthening exercises have limited impact, as muscles on one side of your body will remain tense and tight. For maximum benefit, you need to relax those muscles and correct any imbalance. This is where osteopathy can help. Safe, gentle, drug-free and effective, osteopathy is suitable for any age - so can safely be used to help babies as well as the elderly. It corrects imbalances and assists in the rapid healing of sports injuries and a host of other issues. Achieve a healthier, pain-free lifestyle the natural way, with osteopathy. Osteopathic Treatment Centre, 19 Tanglin Road, #12-02 Tanglin Shopping Centre. Tel: 6734 6440, www.osteopathy.com.sg, Email: osteo@osteopathy.com.sg
Posted May 2011
