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Bubbling under the skin

Submitted by pchou42 on 2020-10-06 05:28
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Yesterday while I was waiting for something to finish baking I did some arm swings and then some standing. When I was standing I felt like underneath my skin or maybe between my skin and my fascia there was some bubbling or some kind of pulsing feeling going on, maybe related to my hearbeat but it didn't seem to quite sync. This was going on in the space in between my shoulder blades. Is this the kind of stretch we are trying to accomplish with this warm up or was this maybe just a coincedental feeling.

Backstop Feeling

Submitted by pchou42 on 2020-10-06 05:13

Yesterday when I was doing my standing meditation I felt something in my foot but I wasn't sure whether it was the backstop feeling or not. I thought the backstop feeling was described as like a right angle sort of sensation where it feels like the back of the heel is up against a wall (maybe I'm not remembering correctly). I was feeling a stretch that felt like it was stretching from the bottom around going upwards but it wasn't in the back of the heel more like in where I imagine the center of the bone is in the foot.

Activating the backstop

Submitted by pchou42 on 2020-08-23 10:01

When locking the knees and rolling the hips forward I feel like this is causing my legs/knees to be rotating outwards which in turn makes my foot feel like it's also rotating outwards. When this happens I do feel like this is causing my foot to be pushing more into the pads of my feet while also creating some kind of tension from my back inner heel going up towards my inner ankle. Is this on the right track to feeling the strech in the toes and activating the backstop?