Return to Life Through ContrologyRavenio Books, 1945 - 85 pages Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit. Through Contrology you first purposefully acquire complete control of your own body and then through proper repetition of its exercises you gradually and progressively acquire that natural rhythm and coordination associated with all your subconscious activities. This true rhythm and control is observed both in domestic pets and wild animals —without known exceptions. Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit. In childhood, with rare exceptions, we all enjoy the benefits of natural and normal physical development. However, as we mature, we find ourselves living in bodies not always complimentary to our ego. Our bodies are slumped, our shoulders are stooped, our eyes are hollow, our muscles are flabby, and our vitality extremely lowered, if not vanished. This is but the natural result of not having uniformly developed all the muscles of our spine, trunk, arms, and legs in the course of pursuing our daily labors and office activities. If you will faithfully perform your Contrology exercises regularly only four times a week for just three months as outlined in RETURN TO LIFE, you will find your body development approaching the ideal, accompanied by renewed mental vigor and spiritual enhancement. Contrology is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace, and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, in the way you play, and in the way you work. You will develop muscular power with corresponding endurance, ability to perform arduous duties, to play strenuous games, to walk, run or travel for long distances without undue body fatigue or mental strain. And this by no means is the end. |
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... muscles of the body, suppleness of the limbs, and functioning of vital organs and endocrine glands; it also clarifies the mind and develops the will. So it is with great pleasure that I endorse Joseph H. Pilates' work, and hope it will ...
... muscles, but rather more rationally to the uniform development of our bodies as a whole—keeping all our organs as nearly as possible in their naturally normal condition so that we may not only be in a better position to earn our daily ...
... muscles of our spine, trunk, arms, and legs in the course of pursuing our daily labors and office activities. If you ... muscular power with corresponding endurance, ability to perform arduous duties,
... MUSCLES SHOULD OBEY OUR WILL. REASONABLY, OUR WILL SHOULD NOT BE DOMINATED BY THE REFLEX ACTIONS OF OUR MUSCLES. When brain cells are developed, the mind too is developed. Teachers start with sense organs. Contrology begins with mind ...
... muscles is brain-building.” Guiding. Principles. of. Contrology. Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily “ad nauseum.” Neither does it demand your joining a gymnasium nor the purchasing of ...