| One of the biggest problems today is that people don't | | | | what causes you stress, is more about the way you |
| maintain their body at a level that will keep up with their | | | | have been conditioned throughout your life, it doesn't |
| chosen lifestyle and as a result their body begins to | | | | mean you are looking at things the right or wrong way. |
| break down with injury and illness. Everything that | | | | It is like the person in pain who gives up thinking they |
| causes stress to the body will bring it that much closer | | | | aren't fixable and the other person in exactly the same |
| to developing a physical problem related to pain. | | | | condition that never gives up, always believing |
| Working on the muscles, using your hands, is a great | | | | somewhere out there is a solution. |
| way of connecting what you feel in the tissue with | | | | Some healing methods such as spiritual healing and |
| what a person is feeling in the way of pain. After | | | | meditation, counselling or hypnotherapy or NLP, much |
| many years of doing this you are able to pick up on | | | | like psychiatry and psychotherapy, work on the mind |
| the many subtleties that exist in a body that's in pain, | | | | as a way of releasing the stress that is causing pain |
| compared to one that isn't. | | | | or symptoms in the physical body, in some cases with |
| Similarly other lifestyle factors can also be felt in the | | | | great success. Other methods like naturopathy will |
| body's soft tissue. Things such as if a person worries | | | | release stress through nutrition and supplements, |
| too much or doesn't get enough sleep, if they eat well | | | | balancing the body chemically and others again such |
| or not, how much exercise they do, even how strong | | | | as what I specialise in, SLM Bodywork, will release it |
| and healthy they are generally. These things all show | | | | through working directly on the physical body. |
| up in the muscles in the way they feel. | | | | The mind is incredibly powerful and can be working for |
| Stress is the body's worst enemy and on its own can | | | | or against you, it is your choice. It cannot be |
| be the trigger for many of the pains and illnesses from | | | | disregarded when you are searching for the cause of |
| which people suffer. If you have chronic back pain for | | | | your back pain or sciatica and although it won't always |
| example, high stress levels will make the intensity and | | | | provide the answer, sometimes it will. |
| incidence of your pain much greater than it would | | | | Basically the more strong, supple, healthy and relaxed |
| otherwise be. This means that one way you can work | | | | the tissue in our body is, the more resistant it is to the |
| on your chronic back pain is by addressing the things in | | | | stresses or pressure that cause us pain or sickness |
| your life that are causing your body stress. | | | | and when we do get a problem, the easier it responds |
| You must remember the way you perceive things and | | | | and becomes well again. |