Why
Stress
is the Key to Back Pain.
One of the biggest problems today is that people don't
maintain
their body at a level that will keep up with their chosen lifestyle and
as a
result, their body begins to break down with injury and illness.
Everything that
causes stress to the body will bring it that much closer to developing
a
problem.
Working
on the muscles, using your hands, is a great way of
connecting what you feel in the tissue with what a person is feeling in
the way
of pain. After many years of doing this you are able to pick up on the
many
subtleties that exist in a body in pain, compared to one that
isn’t.
Similarly, other lifestyle factors can also be felt in the
body’s
soft tissue. Things such as, if a person worries too much or doesn't
get
enough
sleep, if they eat well or not, how much exercise they do, even how
strong and
healthy they are generally. These things all show up in the muscles in
the way
they feel.
Most of the things that
make someone’s body feel different
from that
of a relaxed, strong and healthy body can be put under the heading of
'stress'.
Stress is the body's
worst enemy and on its own can be the trigger
for many of the pains and illnesses from which people suffer. If you
have
chronic back pain for example, high stress levels will make the
intensity and
incidence of your pain much greater than it would otherwise be. This
means that
one way you can work on your chronic back pain is by addressing the
things that
are causing your body stress.
A person's mental state
or how you perceive things has an important
bearing on how much tension or stress is contained in your physical
body. For
example, two people could have exactly the same situation to deal with
but it
is only a source of stress for one of them because the other doesn't
see it as
a problem. It all depends on the way you look at it.
You must remember the
way you perceive things and what causes you
stress, is more about the way you have been conditioned throughout your
life,
it doesn't mean you are looking at things the right or wrong way.
Some healing methods
such as spiritual healing and meditation, NLP, counselling
or hypnotherapy,
much like psychiatry and psychotherapy, work on the mind as a way of
releasing
the stress that is causing pain or symptoms in the physical body, in
some cases
with great success. Other methods like naturopathy will release stress
through
nutrition and supplements, balancing the body chemically and others
again such
as SLM Bodywork will release it through working directly on the
physical body.
The mind is very
powerful and cannot be disregarded when you are
searching for the cause of your pain and although it won't always
provide the
answer, sometimes it will.
When you use the word
'stress' most people immediately think it is
when you worry about things too much or have too much on your mind to organise
or think about. Although
this is a common source of stress, just as importantly, there are many
other
things that can create high stress levels in the body. Things like over
eating
or eating the wrong foods such as too much sugar, or foods you may be
allergic
to even not getting enough good quality sleep.
Stress can also come from over exercise, muscle
imbalances, poor posture, in fact anything that throws the body out of
balance
either physically, chemically or emotionally could be considered
sources of our
everyday stress.
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