Pain is a call to action.

It is a signal from your body to pay attention.

When pain hits hard, the first thing we do is react. We call the Doctor to see if it is something serious like a break or a tear. If we get the ‘all clear’ from our Dr. and we are still in reaction mode , usually we can get a prescription to suppress the pain we are feeling.

Think about that for a second,

if pain is a call to action then why would we want to suppress that call?

I know more than anyone about pain. I have had to use perscriptions for pain in the past to supress, it happens in life. I have learned over the years how to deal with pain on another level.

I have a dibilitating scoliosis with every possible anomoly you could have in a spine. I also suffered a painful break in my hand. I had to wear an excruciating cast for almost a year that caused so much pain, I broke out in shingles. I also had an auto immune illness that caused my joints to swell and seize, movement was excruciating.

I do consider myself a tough gal though, I did deliver both of my sons without drugs. That pain I invited in on my own terms.

Pain can take its toll on you mentally, spiritually, and physically. Mentally you can become angry or depressed, spiritually you can turn to God for help, and physically you can limit your lifestyle in attempt to make the pain go away.

Pain can make any healing process agony, as it draws on your life force when you have to suffer from it for years and months.

When I’m working with my pain clients I like them to develop a relationship with their pain. I do that by teaching my clients how to get intimate with their pain, learn to understand it, accept it for what it is, and then eventually how to release it. Kind of like a relationship with a person.

I first do that by educating my client about their anatomy of the area affected. I teach them about the joint and the muscles involved, about their nervous system and how their nerves make their specific pain happen. We discuss their sleep, nutrition, the brain, their personality and reactions to stress, driving habits, work habits, pretty much every aspect of life.

At the same time we are examining movement at the studio and finding their boundaries of what the affected area can and cannot do. I also empower the person with exercises they can do at home safely to support the work done in the studio.

In 8-16 sessions we uncover quite a bit of data, and together find patterns in their daily life that could be contributing both good and bad to the situation.

By the time we are done with 16 sessions they are well on their way to self empowerment. They have a set of skills they can accomplish in studio and at home where they feel the positive affects and results, their pain doesn’t get worse, and they can see the light at the end of their very dark tunnel.

From that point forward it is all about intention.

Getting the person to believe that they can overcome their situation and conquer their own anatomy can only be done with their help.

My clients have to take responsibility for their situation and 2 or 3 hours a week at the studio won’t fix a problem that probably took years to develop. They have to participate with home exercises to support what they are doing at the studio.

They have to look at their nutrition and see how an acid ash diet plays a role in their pain.

This is crucial to the process because in order to change tissue we have to apply constant positive pressure on a cellular level.

In close to 33 years of teaching pain relief work, I have been able to help hundreds of people recover from their injuries, deal with pain related to illnesses, and recover from surgeries.

I witness their pain, help them understand it from the inside out, and together with my client we carve a pathway out together.

I can honestly say I have only not been able to help a few of those people.

Some of those people did have to have surgeries because it was needed. At least when they had to succumb to surgery, they were completely committed to their process; which ultimately, if you have the choice, should be that way.

For the people I was not able to help, I realized along the way with my own pain issues that I needed that pain in my life for a period of time to help me understand how to learn boundaries with work, family, and friends. It was an excuse for me to drop some of the negative people pleasing aspects of my personality; I literally could not particiapte because I was in so much pain.

Pain can be a wonderful teacher.

Its definitely not one I would choose to use, there are better ways of getting educated about the physical self that don’t require as much suffering.

Pain if you can bear it, should not be suppressed.

It should be a call to action, to finally take your body in your own hands and deal with what needs to be done.

Pain can bring you back home to your physical body. It can call you back to yourself and teach you how to respect the vehicle you were given on a cellualr level.