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Tammy Wise2019-01-21 08:52:432019-01-10 13:59:29The Foundation for Focussed Strength Dive Deeper Into The Art of Strength: Preview Chapters 3 & 4 of My First Book
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Tammy Wise2019-01-17 07:21:552019-01-15 14:24:48Books are Great Gifts!
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Tammy Wise2019-01-15 08:39:502019-01-10 13:47:42If Our Bodies Could TalkWelcome to the BodyLogos blog. Here’s where you’ll get your dose of alignment and balance with grace. (Sign up here to join 1,000 other blog subscribers.)
Redefining Strength
I want to change our perception of strength. Strength is the ability to meet resistance and influence an outcome without compromising ourselves. And we already have it.
Strength is not an attribute; it’s a state of being. Gladiators, bodybuilders, and football players demonstrate strength through brute force, sheer willpower, muscle mass, and relentless pursuit. But we’re also quick to identify dancers and martial artists as strong. Their medium taps into a sense of vulnerability, balance, alignment, controlled power, and grace—but no one can deny their strength. Strength may look different on each of us, but it is an inherent part of who we are.
You are not weak by nature; you are stronger than you think. Your strength is not something you need to kill yourself to gain—it is already within you, waiting to be excavated. The key is to stop chasing something you already have and tap into it, so you can manifest that strength in your everyday life.
Because we don’t think we’re strong, we approach resistance with the idea that we’re not enough. We throw everything we have at it and push past our physical, mental, and emotional limitations. We see strength as domination, but it’s not.
When you learn to listen to your body’s divine wisdom, you cultivate a sense of where your body is developing tension instead of standing in its strength. You end the vicious cycle of unrealistic expectations, injury, and self-criticism and learn how to consciously embrace responsible growth. You stop compartmentalizing your strength into emotional, physical, and mental pieces and operate from the strength of your being at all times.
You learn how to align yourself with gravity—instead of working against it—so you can channel your strength to meet life’s resistance. As you meet resistance with equal parts power and alignment, you transform tension into strength
As in the sword dance above, the power lies in bringing just the right amount of force—not too little and not too much. By meeting the sword’s weight, I meet gravity. I am tapped into a larger source of energy, free of tension, and discover a strength that is wholly and uniquely mine.
About Tammy Wise
New Year’s in July
by Tammy WiseEli and Tammy
A New Year’s Resolution Success Story.
New Year’s Resolutions are often repeat pursuits and thought destined-to-fail. Amateur night, right? Maybe because a result is desired without a roadmap or real interest beyond that result.
My 2025 resolution has not only become a lifestyle, the journey has brought me so much unexpected joy, connection and insight.
It started as a simple wish. I wanted my hands to look better.
I touch people all day long as a body worker. My nails had ridges, splits and cracked cuticles. I always wanted to hide them, but I need them front and center.
Manicures, as I’d known them, lasted a day. My lifestyle of gym workouts, motorcycles and bicycles, handling big dogs and big birds, hadn’t made beautiful hands possible. What’s a girl to do… I thought?
Manicures these days, however, have toughened up. Shellac, gel, powder, and so on, are options that ward off the splits and cracks, cover the ridges, and are indestructible!
So, December 31st 2024 I had my first powder manicure experience. My manicurist was a young man named Eli. I marveled at the process. The tools were like the Dremel tools I once used to carve designs into wood. My love for arts and crafts was fully engaged!
After trying a few different manicurists I returned to Eli regularly. He’s my favorite. He’s first generation Chinese. He came to America at 14-years old with his mom, after his dad died.
Eli’s mom couldn’t find work in China to support them both. And, with China’s one child law, and the Chinese prioritizing sons and adopting daughters out of the country, there were few young women for Eli’s future happiness.
This story, of how a widowed Chinese woman came to America to make a better life for her son, fascinated me. How brave she was! My manicures became story-time, even though we sometimes struggle with language to be understood.
His mom, a manicurist, taught Eli, now 25-years old, her trade. Now he has made it his own.
Every 3-4 weeks we sit across a small table to craft beautiful new nails for me, gifting me pause from the demands of my world; while in exchange, I teach Eli new English words and learn the life of an immigrant.
His American journey and beautifying my nails have become an ongoing story that integrates both our wishes to look good and feel better.
It’s been a resolution more meaningful than I could have ever imagined. Because there was a roadmap to get started, and a real interest in what was unknown until I began the journey.
As an old biker-chick, I still say, “It’s about the journey, not the destination.”And, more to the point of your next resolution, “A destination is an excuse to journey!”
Share a New Year’s Resolution story that inspires commitment and resolve here!