What Does Your Walk Say About You?

Yet another piece on body language…..

This time it’s The Walk. I am a certified Massage Therapist and in my training, we covered posture, walk, the importance of alignment, etc. Stand up straight, align shoulders, hips, knees, ankles for a more natural, more fluid gait – that’s what I remind myself when I think about it. Apparently a woman’s gait also gives a clue to what kind of orgasms she has, too. What? Oh geez. Yeah, that’s it, it’s how she walks that does it. 

Body language articles, I always read them. I find it interesting that so much focus is spent on something like the walk, analysing whether a person is indecisive or not by judging if their shoulders are level when they walk. Mine aren’t. I have an 18-year-old son with special needs. I do all my reaching, lifting, transfering by placing him on the left side of my body. My shoulders are lopsided because I use my body in a lopsided fashion. It has nothing to do with my ability to make decisions. I know that I don’t walk evenly because of the same reason, my right hip is wonky and when I’m running regularly, it’s worse.

Wow, I sound pretty graceless when I write it all out like this….

The arms though, they can be an indicator of confidence, comfort level. Sometimes I am very aware of them and they feel odd to me. Okay, that came out weird…. When I am aware of them, they don’t feel as if they are swinging naturally. Have you ever felt that way? 

Too many more articles like this and I’ll find myself afraid to get off the couch and walk across the room in the fear that my left knee will give away my secret desire to rule the world.

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