Joseph Campbell once said: “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
This is the thing, it is easy to see the way out for everyone else’s problems, but rarely do we recognise the same response and behaviour in ourselves.
We all want the easiest life possible, but fear of change will harm us more long term. This can be anything form getting rid of your back pain, sorting your finances, changing a job, changing your diet, changing your movement, finishing or starting a relationship and taking a different approach to a problem rather than repeating the same reaction.
We respond, behave and act form our 95% subconscious. Forming new habits does not mean loading more on our busy lives but taking something away. We often repeat parental, societal and belief systems that were installed in childhood.
I have many pain clients that visit my studio who have seen many consultants, doctors, GPS, physiotherapists and acupuncturists, but this is the thing, if we visit each person with the expectation of them fixing us, we don’t change. We take the same behaviour to everyone we meet and expect a different result.
The central nervous system is so important to reprogram new neural pathways. This is often done with creative activities that don’t involve us getting stuck in our left brains. Our right brain is the artist, the gardener, the musician, the dancer, the singer and many other creative archetypes.
What we focus on grows. My experience is focusing on the pain point never works as it takes a deeper holistic view of the body.
Sometimes we need to learn to play, relax and find our inner child. The body is always talking to us through symptoms, but we mask them with one medication after the other.
As we heal one symptom another one starts.
This is why chopsticks could save your life!
I get clients to to do little drills, that create different response. Drills would include, changing the knife and fork into opposite hands, sitting at a different place at the table, moving and relocating furniture in a room and using chopsticks.
Chopsticks force us to slow down, chew slowly, create more of a cephalic response and savour each bit of food. It also requires behaving, responding and moving in a different way.
This only touches the tip of the iceberg and of course there are many other contributors to chronic pain, but on the hierarchy of survival the belief system and mindset of the person comes first.
If what you are doing is working, why are you getting the same result?
If what we are doing as a society why are we living in so much pain and turmoil?
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw
