R Buckminster Fuller brought about the notion of internal structural balance through tension and integrity. He called this ‘Tensegrity‘. This notion has now been observed down to the cellular level of the human body. The old school idea that cells are floating and bumping into each other in a connective tissue matrix (that is erroneously thought of as the bodies inert filler) is no more. Small integrins and laminar filaments attach through the cell walls down into the nucleus and ultimately to the genetic code of the cell. Through these tiny guy wires every cell is structurally sound and is also attached and in communication with every other. The entire body is hard wired. How does this news affect you and I?
R Buckminster Fuller brought about the notion of internal structural balance through tension and integrity. He called this ‘Tensegrity’. This notion has now been observed down to the cellular level of the human body. The old school idea that cells are floating and bumping into each other in a connective tissue matrix (that is erroneously thought of as the bodies inert filler) is no more. Small integrins and laminar filaments attach through the cell walls down into the nucleus and ultimately to the genetic code of the cell. Through these tiny guy wires every cell is structurally sound and is also attached and in communication with every other. The entire body is hard wired. How does this news affect you and I?

It allows us to explore how Rolf Structural Integration works. Organizing connective tissue fibers and cells on the macro level necessarily translates down the microscopic level through these fibers. Cells that are stretched thin by tight areas function differently. They divide. On the other side of this coin, cells that are slackened by imbalance and have zero stress on them die. We experience this as atrophy on the larger scale. The body needs to be balanced front to back, top to bottom, left to right and inside to outside for true spatial health to exist. All sides of each joint and its internal capsule must function properly for the cartilage to glide correctly. There should be no pain when there is balance. The body should be using the absolute minimum amount of energy to exist, and this in turn allows more potential energy for other functions - hopefully immune boosting and disease fighting systems. Exciting frontiers within Spatial Medicine, as Tom Myers states, are upon us and the news is very good.

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