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Muscles are actually attached to wires (nerves) that connect to a computer (the brain) that decides the active length of the muscles. So, when we complain of tight muscles, it may simply be that the brain determines that restricting movement is the best course of action under the immediate circumstances. Remember from chapter 3 that our perceptions and stress levels can increase muscle tension and limit movement options. Therefore, attempting to add muscle length via common stretching methods can become an exercise in futility. If the brain decides that the muscles need to remain under tension, then they will stay tight no matter how much your stretch.
All Gain, No Pain
Bill Hartman
And lest you believe that such remote control represents the kind of spooky action at a distance that science abhors, a quantum physicist would calmly explain that electromagnetic fields are no less real than light, and that they simply transmit their force through particles, like bosons and such, that pop in and out of “virtual existence.”
TechGnosis
Erik Davis and Eugene Thacker
And what James called our “supreme good” does lie in harmoniously adjusting ourselves to this normally unseen order, regardless of whether you think of this supreme good as being our deepest happiness or our virtue. Of course, part of this adjustment of ourselves means thinking of our selves as being less substantial, or at least less distinctly substantial, than we might have previously thought our selves to be. Indeed, this diffuseness of the self, and this porousness of the bounds of self, are part of the “unseen order”—a newly perceived continuity between what’s inside of us and what’s outside of us.
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
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