March 30, 2023 • 35 mins
Address Chronic Pain by Understand the Pain Cycle (How to Rid Yourself of Chronic Pain Forever) | The Asana Academy Podcast
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All right.
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So today's show is.
Addressing chronic pain.
So what to do about it?
How to resolve it andunderstanding where it came
from.
So I've been taking.
Topics from my email list.
If you're not on my email list,you can go to
www.theasanaacademy.com.
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And you can email me specifictopics you'd covered and I make
a running list of them to coverthem on.
The show at a future point.
And when there's something thatgets brought up a lot, I'll
record a show about it.
So chronic pain.
Is a big one.
For a lot of people that showsup like a shoulder pain.
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Back pain, neck pain.
Hip pain.
And all of those.
All of those different types ofchronic pain also manifest
themselves in different ways.
What to do about it.
So first of all, let'sunderstand where it comes from.
So I think the most difficultthing when you have pain and
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I'll talk about back pain first,since that's a big one for a lot
of people, and I think that willbenefit.
A lot of you listening to theshow.
The big thing, the big issuewith back pain is that.
It's always treated as a veryIt's a good word to describe it.
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Almost like a.
Almost like a finite issue.
Which is something that can't goaway.
It is the problem.
But the reality is back pain ismore symptomatic.
Than it is the actual issue athand.
And so that's what leads a lotof people to go wrong.
In actually successfully solvingback pain.
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Because of how it's treated,when it's treated as the problem
itself.
It closes off the, it closes offthe ability to explore where or
how it came from or theorigination of it.
So like typically if you've gotback pain, you go to the doctor.
It's a pretty simple thing,right?
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It's well here's somepainkillers do some stretching
if it escalates.
There's all sorts of differentkinds of back surgeries that
they can perform differentthings they can do on your
spine.
Oftentimes without even fullyunderstanding the scope.
Of where the pain.
Actually came from our white.
Got there.
So this is the first thing, likeif you've had.
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Chronic pain that hasn't goneaway.
And you've had back painspecifically that hasn't gone
away.
And even if you've tried thingsthere's a lot of solutions out
there and a lot of thesurgeries.
And different operations theycan perform on your spine,
whether that's fusing discs orspinal fusions, like those types
of things.
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Those are things you have toview.
As just fancy band-aids meaningit's like anything else.
It's not going to fully solvethe problem, but it's a
temporary solution where if youput a bandaid on a wound, it's
going to feel better.
For a little bit.
But it may not solve theproblems.
It's the band-aid solution.
It's a very simple thing, butit's very expensive, right?
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It's tens of thousands ofdollars in some cases, even
hundreds of thousands of dollarsto do this, but.
And it may solve the problemtemporarily, right?
Like you may feel good for acouple of weeks, even a month.
And then it really starts tocome back at some point.
Which is.
Which is the issue with backpain is that tons of solutions
available, but very few of them.
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Almost none of them.
Almost none of the surgicalprocedures will make back pain
go away for good.
It just delays the inevitable.
It's like it's a, it's like atemporary solution.
That resolves the pain in theshort term, but in the longterm,
it comes back bigger than ever.
And so here's the first thing tounderstand about it is our body
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first and foremost, when we haveproblems.
And.
For the back, I'll use the backas an example, here is we can
have skeletal problems.
Or we can have back pain relatedto the skeleton.
We can have back pain related tothe muscles.
We can have back pain related tothe hips, the pelvis
specifically.
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And we can have.
Back pain related to the musclesin the hips that have a knock on
effect on the back.
There's a whole basket of thingsthat can cause issues and back
pain like lingering back painthat doesn't go away.
Your first goal.
Is to understand the source.
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So wherever you've got back painor wherever, you've got an
issue, the thing to understandis that it isn't the problem
itself, but it's a symptom ofsomething greater.
So step one, and if you wantback pain to go away for good
step one.
Is understanding.
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Y you have back pain to beginwith and where the source of
that pain actually came from.
That's that right there is.
The first step and the mostimportant step for success,
which means, and you have to askyourself the question.
I really need to understandwhere this came from because the
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path is really different, right?
And this is why a lot of these.
Surgical procedures.
These blind surgical proceduresdon't work.
And they only work in the shortterm is because.
If you're doing something toyour back, if you're trying to
address the problem, thatproblems or pain in your back
and your lumbar spine.
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That's a result ofdysfunctioning muscles in your
back.
That's very different.
That pain has a very different.
Or origination.
Then pain in your hip, right?
From something in your hipdysfunction, in your hip that
causes pain in your back.
That manifest itself.
And that's.
That's ultimately why pain andchronic pain specifically is so
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tricky to solve.
Is that.
We're conditioned to believethat wherever we feel the pain,
the source of the pain is theproblem itself.
But oftentimes in our bodies,Where we feel pain.
Is it, that's just the area.
We are manifesting the pain, butwhere that pain comes from is
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somewhere completely different.
So if you've got say lumbar.
Back pain.
Rural common area in the lumbarspine is like L four and L five
in that region.
Very common.
For back pain.
The issue with that back pain.
And the issue with saying toyourself I've got to do
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something.
My L four and L five are inpain.
I got to fuse them together.
I have to do something alongthose lines.
The problem with that.
Is.
There's a whole bunch of otherthings in the body that can
create that pain that arecreating that.
And so if you're addressing themanifestation.
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Of the problem instead of theproblem itself.
You're not really doing anythingright.
You're not really doinganything.
And it's I'm trying to think ofa good.
I'm trying to think of a goodway to.
To describe this.
But the actual source.
And I think you get what I thinkyou get what I'm saying, which
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is for example, it's if you havethe burner on, on the stove, and
you've got a frying pan on thestove and you say, you know
what?
The frying pan is getting toohot.
I need to cool the frying panoff and you put ice cubes.
You grab like a bucket of icecubes.
And put them on the frying pan.
That's on the burner.
Yeah, it might cool off thefrying pan temporarily, but
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ultimately the frying pan isstill under the burner.
It's going to get hot again.
It's going to melt the ice andget hot again.
And that's the same approach toback pain, which is if you're
addressing the manifestation ofthe problem, which is the hot
frying pan.
The hot frying pan is the pro isthe symptom.
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It's not the problem.
The actual problem is the factthat the burners on there's a
flame underneath your fryingpan.
That's heating and up.
That's the problem.
The symptom is the hot fryingpan, but when we flip, when we
deal with our back and that waywe don't actually address the
actual problem.
And I hope that analogy makessense, but it's if you've got a
frying pan on underneath theflame and you put.
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Ice cubes on the frying pan.
Yeah, you might cool it off fora little bit, but at the end of
the day, that frying pan willcontinue to get hot because the
actual problem is the fact thatthe burners on you have to turn
the burner off.
And it's the same thing with theback that goes on is you have
to.
Address the underlying.
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Th the underlying problem.
And instead of addressing themanifestation of the problem,
you want the problem itself, andit comes in so many different
areas.
So by the time that you've got,say lumbar back pain.
Say again, like L four and Lfive.
Remember that?
Our body's default is not to bein pain.
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Our body's default is not tohave skeletal pain, it's not to
have pain in our skeleton, butwe do.
We get that.
And this is the thing that'simportant.
Understand is that whenever weexperience pain, In our
skeleton.
Pain in our skeleton is a resultof dysfunction in the muscles.
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Disfunction at the muscularlevel leads to pain and pain at
the skeletal level.
So at some point in time, somemuscle became imbalanced,
underworked, overworked, unusedunactivated.
And that muscle by not workinglike it should created the pain
that was in the pain that you'reexperiencing in your skeleton,
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in the specific pace place.
It happens every time.
You can't have skeletal painwithout muscular dysfunction.
And that's the most importantthing.
To understand.
And the most important thing toremember is that.
If you have chronic pain in somearea of your body.
Understand that.
It's a result of musculardysfunction somewhere.
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So you have to find where thatdysfunction is.
And that's very different.
Again, I like to use the backbecause the back is like the
most complicated case andthere's a lot of different
points.
In your body that can fail thatcaused that manifest the pain in
its back.
Like I said before, All themuscles on the back can cause
it, whether that's lats, QL,muscles, sometimes even
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shoulders, but also the pelvisitself can cause can manifest
pain in the back.
As well as the hip flexors, allof those things.
Creates create an environmentfor your back to not feel good.
So going through and doing.
Like doing the investigativeresearch to understand is so
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critical.
So critical.
And if you want to get rid of.
Chronic pain.
Pain that's been plaguing youfor years and years, the only
way to truly get rid of it is tounderstand.
The origination of it, right?
Like where did it come from?
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Which area of my body is causingme to manifest pain.
In my back or whatever specificregion that is.
And it gets tricky.
It gets tricky on a lot ofdifferent levels.
Because, and I want to explainto you what the pain cycle is
sometimes, which is, and you mayhave experienced this.
In back pain.
And I know for a fact like thisis one of the most elusive parts
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about back pain.
I know this because a lot of ourclients who work with us
specifically for back pain.
We see this a lot with exactlywhat happens with them.
So you may have pain, forexample, on one side of your
back.
You may have pain, like on theleft side of your back, say for
example, And you have painthere.
That's last that's lasted formonths.
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And then all of a sudden, oneday you wake up.
And then the pain is now on theright side.
Have your back.
It's no longer on the left side,but it's on the right side of
your back.
And then maybe a couple ofmonths later, that pain in the
right side of your back moves,maybe say to the left shoulder,
the right shoulder, or it jumpsaround in the body.
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And so I'm going to explain whatthat is.
This is called the pain cycle.
And the pain cycle.
Is an interesting phenomenonthat happens.
And the pain cycle.
Is just it's confirmation thatyour body is creating new
movement patterns as a result ofthe previous pain.
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It's your body.
Let me say that again.
The pain cycle when your painjumps around like that.
In different areas of your body.
It's not an accident.
It's confirmation.
That your body has created newmovement patterns as a result of
your previous pain.
Right or previous injuries.
So this happens with injuries.
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It's happens with pain.
This happens with all sorts ofthings.
And when you're addressing.
Any type of chronic pain issue.
You have to understand twothings, right?
Like we talked about the firstone.
Which is number one, when I'vegot pain.
When I have chronic pain in mybody or my back, I have to
understand the source.
I have to understand.
Which area of my body, which isthe symptom in which is the
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actual problem.
And I'm not going to address thesymptom.
I'm going to address theproblem.
As we've talked about on thisepisode already.
Now.
The other side though of it.
The second part of it is thatwhen you have chronic pain in
order to get it to go away, It'sthis movement pattern thing that
I'm talking about, you have totruly understand.
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That's.
The second part to addressingchronic pain is asking.
In what area?
In what ways has my body shiftedits movements and what movement
patterns, what new movementpatterns has it created?
As a result.
Of this chronic pain or injury.
So it's very similar, right?
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All like chronic on afundamental level.
The, that if you want to makethe connections between all of
what I do.
Press handstand is literallyjust a series of movement
patterns that you're trying tocreate.
Chronic pain is just a series ofmovement patterns that you're
trying to undo.
On every level because themuscular dysfunction.
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That created the skeletal painwas a result of faulty movement
patterns from something thatcreated the muscular
dysfunction.
That muscular dysfunctioncreated the.
Chronic pain, right?
At the skeletal level, but thenas a result of the pain that was
created, your body then creatednew movement patterns as a
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result of whatever pain orinjury.
That you were dealing with,right?
So the body is fluid.
It's not static, right?
Our body is a complex machine orbrain is extremely complex and
it's creating new movementpatterns all the time.
It's creating different andnewer movement patterns all the
time based on the data that it'sreceiving, right?
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Based on real-time data thatyour brain is receiving.
It's working to create newermovement patterns for you
consistently.
So if you go back to.
Again, that approach to realizethat the fundamental level of
everything that's going on isdysfunctional movement patterns
that have created dysfunctionalmuscles that have created pain
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in the skeleton.
And then when you have pain,it's similar, right?
We've all sprained an ankle atone point in time, or maybe
we've pulled a hamstring.
The thing about it is if you payattention when you sprain an
ankle or pull hamstring, Whatchanges you walk differently?
Your body learns to walkdifferently.
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And when our body walksdifferently.
What's what is going on behindthe scenes is that our brain is
learning.
It's teaching our body a new wayto walk, to deal with the pulled
hamstring or the sprained ankle.
And when that goes on longenough, if that isn't addressed.
New movement patterns can becreated.
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And those new movement patternslead to muscles working in
different ways than they'redesigned to work.
Because again, Our brain.
Isn't smart enough to determinewhich patterns are good for us
and which are bad for us.
It only is the only thing itunderstands is how often are you
doing it?
And the more often you create amovement.
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The more your brain, the.
The more likely your brain is toget to work at creating a
pattern, to make it easier foryour muscles to do that.
Even at the expense of themuscles, by the way, that's how
muscles dysfunction.
That's the roots of musculardysfunction in the body and
muscles that don't engagecorrectly.
Muscles that don't workcorrectly.
That's the root of all of it.
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The root of the whole thing.
Is understanding that our brainis constantly creating patterns
constantly.
And we may think.
Once we have a back injury.
That it's isolated maybe just tothat or chronic pain in her
back, but we're walkingdifferently, whether or not you
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realize that you're walkingdifferently because of that pain
that you're experiencing in yourlower back, that is creating
other movement patterns, whichcreates more pain.
That's why pain jumps around inthe body.
So that's the pain cycle.
Understanding that pain cycle.
Is understanding what happensand that's why.
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The that's why addressingchronic pain is so difficult
because a number one, there's alot of different parts.
There's again, there's a lot ofdifferent.
Moving parts to this, which isokay.
First I've got the manifestationof the problem.
Which is the symptom, right?
The manifestation of a problemis a symptom.
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The symptom in the back is aresult of some kind of muscular
dysfunction somewhere else inthe body that created that pain
that you're now experiencing inyour back.
That's why different people canhave the same problems by the
way, but they can experiencepain in their body in different
places.
That's why some people can have.
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Problems with the hip flexors,they could have destabilized hip
muscles, for example, but theyexperience one experiences pain
in the lower back, the other oneexperiences pain in the neck.
It's all about where your bodymanifests the pain.
So sometimes.
This is the thing there's lotsof moving targets, right?
There's lots of different,there's lots of different parts
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of the body that couldlegitimately be the problem.
And there's lots of differentproblem points that can manifest
pain in lots of different partsof your body.
And then.
The underlying reason why themuscles were dysfunctioning to
begin with is a result ofmovement patterns.
And based on where you aretoday.
And next month and the monthafter that, the movement
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patterns are always changing.
Your body's always creating newpatterns.
So the thing is it's not astatic.
It's not a static solution.
There's a lot of moving targetsthat you have to juggle.
And things that change, right?
Hitting a moving target.
That's constantly changing atboth levels.
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And the baseline of it is.
Essentially the baseline of itis essentially the movement
patterns that your body is.
Continuously creating.
And that's why lining everythingup is so important to
understand.
And that's why.
That's why the solution tochronic pain berries.
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From week to week, month tomonth, it changes.
It changes there's variablesthat are constantly changing.
And so that's the problem with.
That's the problem with trulyaddressing chronic pain?
Is that.
The modern system and the wayit's designed treats pain as a
scaler, but it's actually moreof a vector in that.
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You've got multiple differentthings that you have to
understand.
You have to juggle.
But by doing that's where youlearn.
That's how you actually solvethe problem, right?
The gets how you get the chronicpain to go away.
You have to balance the muscles.
You have to balance your musclesfirst.
And then you have to first, thefirst step is to address what's
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causing what's the underlyingroot of the symptom.
Which part of the body isactually causing the pain and
where you're experiencing it.
And then which of those musclesare dysfunctioning.
Not working correctly that arecausing.
That problem.
So everything starts at the,everything starts at the
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movement, that movement patternlevel, but it's moving through
all of these targets to try totruly understand what's going
on.
Like the really understand.
What's going on.
And this is the solution togetting it to go away.
It's not again, if you'reserious about really.
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If you're serious about trulyunderstanding.
And balancing your body.
Like the solution is simple.
It's balancing your body, abalanced body, never experiences
pain.
A balanced body, neverexperiences pain.
It never experiences ongoingpain.
So the one single solution toaddressing chronic pain.
Is understanding.
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That it's just simply balancingyour body.
I must balance my body.
I must go on a quest and thatmeans.
Understanding the way themuscles work, understanding how
they should work.
How they should function.
And that's the cool thing.
Like I've talked about this far.
I'm not going to talk about iton this specific show, but
that's why press handstand isrural coal for chronic pain
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because balanced bodies, I'venever seen a balanced body that
can press handstand.
That can do a press handstand.
And at the same time, I've neverseen a balanced body that's in
pain.
So the two go.
The two go hand in hand.
And by default, what that meansis that it balanced bodies.
It balanced bodies, compressedhands, Dan and balanced bodies.
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Don't experience pain.
The solution to.
The solution to overcoming.
Chronic pain is to balance thebody.
If you're not in the press handsense, that's totally fine.
But the nature in which youtrain.
For press handstand isessentially balancing the body.
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It's going through all thosepieces to balance the body.
That's why.
That's why like with my clients,for example, who have chronic
pain of some sort who aren'tinterested in pressing the hand
set at all.
It's the same process you gothrough just remove the end
result.
It's like that is the process.
Like just when your body istruly balanced, press handstand
is just a representation thatyou can do that.
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That's the way chronic painworks and that's why it's
important.
And these are questions you haveto ask for yourself.
And this is where this is reallywhat makes a difference.
If you've been, if you've beenstuck look, I've seen a lot of
people who have been in pain forlong periods of time.
And it's sad when you start tolive with it, right?
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Because you start to just acceptthe fact.
That it's your reality.
And you start to accept thefact.
That.
That's the way your body worksand it's always going to be that
way and you give up hope, butthe reality is you can solve the
problem.
But in order to solve it, youhave to ask yourself these
questions.
Okay.
So you can repeat this.
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I, if you're interested, if youguys are interested, I could do
a whole topic.
I can do a whole nother topicon.
Shoulders, neck hips, whateverit is, I'm using the back on
this one, but the sameprinciples apply to wherever it
is.
Ask yourself if I'm experiencingback pain, understand that is
the manifestation of the problemor the symptom.
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So number one, that's the firstpoint understand that.
The second point is askyourself.
The next thing to understand iswhich part of my body is the
actual problem that's causingthe pain.
Because once you understand theactual part of your body, that's
understanding pain, you can getto work on it.
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That's why, when people ask me.
That's why when sometimes peopleask me why don't you just tell
us what to do to have.
Like when they have back pain,why don't you just tell us
people will write it on socialmedia.
They write it on my ads andsometimes like emails.
Like, why do you talk about backpain?
Why don't you just tell us whatto do?
And this is why I don't justtell people what to do is
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because it's different foreverybody.
It's different for everybody.
I can't make the assumption.
That the.
I can't make the assumption thateveryone's back pain came from
the same source.
It came from the same problem.
That's why I don't do it becauseit's irresponsible to do it.
It's if you don't trulyunderstand what's in front of
you.
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You can't solve the problem.
It's impossible.
Unless you know what you'reworking with, then everyone's
back pain is different, right?
Yeah.
Are there some that are slightlysimilar?
Yes.
Are there some that are Evenpartly similar or 90% similar.
Yes.
But there's still a lot they'redrastically different.
And that's why.
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That's why the traditional waysto solve.
That's why the traditional likemedical and pharmaceutical and
surgical route to solve backpain.
Doesn't work.
Because it treats.
All back pain as the same thing.
Everything is the same, right?
It's one solution.
No matter where the pain camefrom, they don't address that.
That's why I don't just giveblanket solutions, especially
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with Sometimes when it comes tohandstands and arm balances,
stuff like that, there's generalthings like everyone can do.
That are helpful, but when itcomes to back and what comes to
chronic pain, this the thingabout it, and the reason I'm
careful.
Is because.
The one w one.
One recommendation that can helpsomeone else can hurt someone
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else more.
So it's irresponsible to do itunless you truly understand
what's going on.
That's the next part, is tounderstand again, ask yourself
the question.
Do I understand the source of mypain?
If you're in chronic pain?
The first thing you need to dois stop everything else and
start to investigate.
Think, write down journal.
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Where could be the actualproblem in my body that's
causing this pain, right?
Is it as a result of hips backshoulders, neck, which part of
my body is dysfunctioning tocause pain.
So the process that you do to gothrough that is you have to
journal, right?
So you have to journal at pointsin your life and things you've
done and sports you've playedactivities that you've done in
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the past hiking, cycling,swimming, whatever, that's all
sports athletic stuff, but also,have you had any injuries?
Have you had things go wrong inyour body.
You have to make a list, right?
This is one of the, this is.
Actually, I think one of themost rewarding parts for people
to understand, like this is whatwe do with our clients is we go
and we literally make a list.
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Of all of the, like theirhistory of movement, we comb
through their body.
The history of their body, whatit's been through, what injuries
they've had things, experiencesthat have come up.
Things in their body sports,they played et cetera, et
cetera, because this will shedlight on the types of movement
patterns that those events,experiences, sports have.
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Have in tune allowed your bodyto build, right?
So then you can look at thosemovement patterns and you can
say, all right, so these, atsome point in your life were
unhealthy movement patterns thatcreated this dysfunction in this
muscle.
So as a result that is literallysat with you maybe for decades
and decades, which is now becomea problem in this area, which
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you're now manifesting the painin your back.
So that's the first thing isunderstanding the source,
getting to the source and fullyunderstanding that and where
that is like when you're crystalclear on the source of your
pain.
The pain now becomes verymanageable and this is how you
can get it to go away.
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Now the other thing here.
Is that, okay.
Now do what I just said.
You have to figure out while Iunderstand the source, what
movement patterns created that,right?
Because you have to undo thosepatterns and then even create.
Newer patterns.
That override the older onesthat train your body for healthy
movement.
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That's the next solution?
Okay.
So if I understand that a musclesomewhere is causing a pain in
my back and my muscles actingthis way.
Because of a faulty pattern thatI created.
Now I need to go and I need tobuild movement patterns, newer
patterns.
I need to override the olderones that are unhealthy with
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newer ones that are healthy.
So that way the muscle that'scausing the pain stops working
in the way that it does.
Because when the muscle thatcauses the pain stops working in
the way that it does, then youno longer have the pain, you now
have relief and you, what you'vedone is you've created the, you
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have now created the environmentfor the body to actually heal,
right?
Not just at the root, but.
Not just at the root.
Not just at the surface, but atthe actual root.
Do you understand how that'sdifferent?
You're con you're essentiallyjust altering your movement
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patterns under the surface thatare creating.
Your muscles to functiondysfunction, which in turn
creates the pain.
Right?
Muscular dysfunction over timecreates pain.
It's something that's reallyimportant to remember, right?
Faulty movement patterns overtime, create muscular
dysfunction over time createspain.
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So the pain that you'reexperiencing is a manifestation
of all of those other things,all of those things that happen.
So getting to that, getting anuncovering, that is the solution
that right there.
Is the solution to.
Overcoming chronic pain.
If you want it to go away,that's the process, right?
That's.
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That's literally the process andthat means.
Combing through.
And that's why with.
That's why like with my clients,we take the anatomical approach
because number one, I firmlybelieve that knowledge is power.
And I have never seen someone.
I have never seen someone withchronic pain that understands
the way their muscles work,plain and simple.
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Like when someone has chronicpain and they start to go down
the journey of understanding theway their muscles work.
They become.
They not only have theknowledge, but now when they
understand they can actually fixthe problem, right?
Like they can just fix theproblem because now they have
some understanding of what'sgoing on, which is.
Which is behind the surface,right?
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Like very, it's a, it soundssimple in theory, but there's a
lot of different moving parts,but that's.
That's exactly how you can doit.
And wanting to go under thesurface.
Is.
It's not for everybody.
But if you really are in painand you want to live a better
life, it's.
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A critical thing to do, think ofyour body as the vehicle.
It's the vehicle.
It's the one it's like aphysical vessel that we
experience the world and it'sthe only one we get.
It's how we interact with theworld.
We should want that physicalvessel ourselves, our human body
to be performing at its peak.
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To be performing at its best andto be performing in a way which
allows us to maximize ourexperiences.
On this planet and live a reallygreat life.
And it's hard to live a greatlife.
If our bodies.
Are not optimized, right?
If our bodies aren't an optimalpeak conditioning and it doesn't
matter what age you are.
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I know there's people listeningfor a fact.
They always say this.
They say.
I am too old.
I am too old.
To make a change from my body.
I'm always this way.
And the thing.
That my answer to that is it'sBS, right?
That's just the belief in yourmind that when you commit to
change, you can make asubstantial amount of change in
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your body.
So this one is going long, butthere's a lot in there.
And chronic pain is a, it's atricky one, but it's solvable.
It's definitely solvable now.
If you do want, if you do wantsome help, if you do want to
work with us to overcome.
Your chronic pain back pain,shoulder pain.
Hip pain.
There are links in the shownotes below you can apply.
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There's an application, or ifyou want to, you got more
questions you want to shoot mean email.
You can also just shoot me anemail and we can.
We can talk about it then and goover.
What's going on with you so Ican get a gauge.
You can also do that, but it'ssomething where again, if you
want to solve it, that's thesolution.
It's not necessarily an easysolution, but it's a rewarding
solution.
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Now, that's all I've got ontoday's show.
So if this was beneficial foryou and you learn something from
it, tag me in a story onInstagram and.
Share it, let me know what youlearned, how you're going to
apply it, et cetera, et cetera.
And then.
The best way that you can helpsupport the Shogun.
I do the show completely freejust to help you guys.
I realized that most of you arenot going to become clients.
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And that doesn't mean I don'twant to help you.
I still do to help you, which iswhy.
I like to do the show, but ifyou are benefiting from it, one
of the ways that you can helpsupport it is.
To number one, share it withsomebody.
If you know somebody who is inchronic pain or A yoga
practitioner who, who couldbenefit from it or any, anybody
in your circle who could benefitfrom hearing this.
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Leaving a review also helps the,all of the modern algorithms to
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Okay.
So that's all I've got for youon today's show.
Have a good rest of your day andI'll talk to you soon.
All right.
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So today's show is.
Addressing chronic pain.
So what to do about it?
How to resolve it andunderstanding where it came
from.
So I've been taking.
Topics from my email list.
If you're not on my email list,you can go to
www.theasanaacademy.com.
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And you can email me specifictopics you'd covered and I make
a running list of them to coverthem on.
The show at a future point.
And when there's something thatgets brought up a lot, I'll
record a show about it.
So chronic pain.
Is a big one.
For a lot of people that showsup like a shoulder pain.
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Back pain, neck pain.
Hip pain.
And all of those.
All of those different types ofchronic pain also manifest
themselves in different ways.
What to do about it.
So first of all, let'sunderstand where it comes from.
So I think the most difficultthing when you have pain and
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I'll talk about back pain first,since that's a big one for a lot
of people, and I think that willbenefit.
A lot of you listening to theshow.
The big thing, the big issuewith back pain is that.
It's always treated as a veryIt's a good word to describe it.
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Almost like a.
Almost like a finite issue.
Which is something that can't goaway.
It is the problem.
But the reality is back pain ismore symptomatic.
Than it is the actual issue athand.
And so that's what leads a lotof people to go wrong.
In actually successfully solvingback pain.
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Because of how it's treated,when it's treated as the problem
itself.
It closes off the, it closes offthe ability to explore where or
how it came from or theorigination of it.
So like typically if you've gotback pain, you go to the doctor.
It's a pretty simple thing,right?
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It's well here's somepainkillers do some stretching
if it escalates.
There's all sorts of differentkinds of back surgeries that
they can perform differentthings they can do on your
spine.
Oftentimes without even fullyunderstanding the scope.
Of where the pain.
Actually came from our white.
Got there.
So this is the first thing, likeif you've had.
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Chronic pain that hasn't goneaway.
And you've had back painspecifically that hasn't gone
away.
And even if you've tried thingsthere's a lot of solutions out
there and a lot of thesurgeries.
And different operations theycan perform on your spine,
whether that's fusing discs orspinal fusions, like those types
of things.
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Those are things you have toview.
As just fancy band-aids meaningit's like anything else.
It's not going to fully solvethe problem, but it's a
temporary solution where if youput a bandaid on a wound, it's
going to feel better.
For a little bit.
But it may not solve theproblems.
It's the band-aid solution.
It's a very simple thing, butit's very expensive, right?
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It's tens of thousands ofdollars in some cases, even
hundreds of thousands of dollarsto do this, but.
And it may solve the problemtemporarily, right?
Like you may feel good for acouple of weeks, even a month.
And then it really starts tocome back at some point.
Which is.
Which is the issue with backpain is that tons of solutions
available, but very few of them.
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Almost none of them.
Almost none of the surgicalprocedures will make back pain
go away for good.
It just delays the inevitable.
It's like it's a, it's like atemporary solution.
That resolves the pain in theshort term, but in the longterm,
it comes back bigger than ever.
And so here's the first thing tounderstand about it is our body
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first and foremost, when we haveproblems.
And.
For the back, I'll use the backas an example, here is we can
have skeletal problems.
Or we can have back pain relatedto the skeleton.
We can have back pain related tothe muscles.
We can have back pain related tothe hips, the pelvis
specifically.
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And we can have.
Back pain related to the musclesin the hips that have a knock on
effect on the back.
There's a whole basket of thingsthat can cause issues and back
pain like lingering back painthat doesn't go away.
Your first goal.
Is to understand the source.
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So wherever you've got back painor wherever, you've got an
issue, the thing to understandis that it isn't the problem
itself, but it's a symptom ofsomething greater.
So step one, and if you wantback pain to go away for good
step one.
Is understanding.
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Y you have back pain to beginwith and where the source of
that pain actually came from.
That's that right there is.
The first step and the mostimportant step for success,
which means, and you have to askyourself the question.
I really need to understandwhere this came from because the
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path is really different, right?
And this is why a lot of these.
Surgical procedures.
These blind surgical proceduresdon't work.
And they only work in the shortterm is because.
If you're doing something toyour back, if you're trying to
address the problem, thatproblems or pain in your back
and your lumbar spine.
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That's a result ofdysfunctioning muscles in your
back.
That's very different.
That pain has a very different.
Or origination.
Then pain in your hip, right?
From something in your hipdysfunction, in your hip that
causes pain in your back.
That manifest itself.
And that's.
That's ultimately why pain andchronic pain specifically is so
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tricky to solve.
Is that.
We're conditioned to believethat wherever we feel the pain,
the source of the pain is theproblem itself.
But oftentimes in our bodies,Where we feel pain.
Is it, that's just the area.
We are manifesting the pain, butwhere that pain comes from is
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somewhere completely different.
So if you've got say lumbar.
Back pain.
Rural common area in the lumbarspine is like L four and L five
in that region.
Very common.
For back pain.
The issue with that back pain.
And the issue with saying toyourself I've got to do
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something.
My L four and L five are inpain.
I got to fuse them together.
I have to do something alongthose lines.
The problem with that.
Is.
There's a whole bunch of otherthings in the body that can
create that pain that arecreating that.
And so if you're addressing themanifestation.
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Of the problem instead of theproblem itself.
You're not really doing anythingright.
You're not really doinganything.
And it's I'm trying to think ofa good.
I'm trying to think of a goodway to.
To describe this.
But the actual source.
And I think you get what I thinkyou get what I'm saying, which
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is for example, it's if you havethe burner on, on the stove, and
you've got a frying pan on thestove and you say, you know
what?
The frying pan is getting toohot.
I need to cool the frying panoff and you put ice cubes.
You grab like a bucket of icecubes.
And put them on the frying pan.
That's on the burner.
Yeah, it might cool off thefrying pan temporarily, but
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ultimately the frying pan isstill under the burner.
It's going to get hot again.
It's going to melt the ice andget hot again.
And that's the same approach toback pain, which is if you're
addressing the manifestation ofthe problem, which is the hot
frying pan.
The hot frying pan is the pro isthe symptom.
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It's not the problem.
The actual problem is the factthat the burners on there's a
flame underneath your fryingpan.
That's heating and up.
That's the problem.
The symptom is the hot fryingpan, but when we flip, when we
deal with our back and that waywe don't actually address the
actual problem.
And I hope that analogy makessense, but it's if you've got a
frying pan on underneath theflame and you put.
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Ice cubes on the frying pan.
Yeah, you might cool it off fora little bit, but at the end of
the day, that frying pan willcontinue to get hot because the
actual problem is the fact thatthe burners on you have to turn
the burner off.
And it's the same thing with theback that goes on is you have
to.
Address the underlying.
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Th the underlying problem.
And instead of addressing themanifestation of the problem,
you want the problem itself, andit comes in so many different
areas.
So by the time that you've got,say lumbar back pain.
Say again, like L four and Lfive.
Remember that?
Our body's default is not to bein pain.
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Our body's default is not tohave skeletal pain, it's not to
have pain in our skeleton, butwe do.
We get that.
And this is the thing that'simportant.
Understand is that whenever weexperience pain, In our
skeleton.
Pain in our skeleton is a resultof dysfunction in the muscles.
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Disfunction at the muscularlevel leads to pain and pain at
the skeletal level.
So at some point in time, somemuscle became imbalanced,
underworked, overworked, unusedunactivated.
And that muscle by not workinglike it should created the pain
that was in the pain that you'reexperiencing in your skeleton,
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in the specific pace place.
It happens every time.
You can't have skeletal painwithout muscular dysfunction.
And that's the most importantthing.
To understand.
And the most important thing toremember is that.
If you have chronic pain in somearea of your body.
Understand that.
It's a result of musculardysfunction somewhere.
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So you have to find where thatdysfunction is.
And that's very different.
Again, I like to use the backbecause the back is like the
most complicated case andthere's a lot of different
points.
In your body that can fail thatcaused that manifest the pain in
its back.
Like I said before, All themuscles on the back can cause
it, whether that's lats, QL,muscles, sometimes even
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shoulders, but also the pelvisitself can cause can manifest
pain in the back.
As well as the hip flexors, allof those things.
Creates create an environmentfor your back to not feel good.
So going through and doing.
Like doing the investigativeresearch to understand is so
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critical.
So critical.
And if you want to get rid of.
Chronic pain.
Pain that's been plaguing youfor years and years, the only
way to truly get rid of it is tounderstand.
The origination of it, right?
Like where did it come from?
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Which area of my body is causingme to manifest pain.
In my back or whatever specificregion that is.
And it gets tricky.
It gets tricky on a lot ofdifferent levels.
Because, and I want to explainto you what the pain cycle is
sometimes, which is, and you mayhave experienced this.
In back pain.
And I know for a fact like thisis one of the most elusive parts
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about back pain.
I know this because a lot of ourclients who work with us
specifically for back pain.
We see this a lot with exactlywhat happens with them.
So you may have pain, forexample, on one side of your
back.
You may have pain, like on theleft side of your back, say for
example, And you have painthere.
That's last that's lasted formonths.
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And then all of a sudden, oneday you wake up.
And then the pain is now on theright side.
Have your back.
It's no longer on the left side,but it's on the right side of
your back.
And then maybe a couple ofmonths later, that pain in the
right side of your back moves,maybe say to the left shoulder,
the right shoulder, or it jumpsaround in the body.
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And so I'm going to explain whatthat is.
This is called the pain cycle.
And the pain cycle.
Is an interesting phenomenonthat happens.
And the pain cycle.
Is just it's confirmation thatyour body is creating new
movement patterns as a result ofthe previous pain.
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It's your body.
Let me say that again.
The pain cycle when your painjumps around like that.
In different areas of your body.
It's not an accident.
It's confirmation.
That your body has created newmovement patterns as a result of
your previous pain.
Right or previous injuries.
So this happens with injuries.
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It's happens with pain.
This happens with all sorts ofthings.
And when you're addressing.
Any type of chronic pain issue.
You have to understand twothings, right?
Like we talked about the firstone.
Which is number one, when I'vegot pain.
When I have chronic pain in mybody or my back, I have to
understand the source.
I have to understand.
Which area of my body, which isthe symptom in which is the
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actual problem.
And I'm not going to address thesymptom.
I'm going to address theproblem.
As we've talked about on thisepisode already.
Now.
The other side though of it.
The second part of it is thatwhen you have chronic pain in
order to get it to go away, It'sthis movement pattern thing that
I'm talking about, you have totruly understand.
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That's.
The second part to addressingchronic pain is asking.
In what area?
In what ways has my body shiftedits movements and what movement
patterns, what new movementpatterns has it created?
As a result.
Of this chronic pain or injury.
So it's very similar, right?
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All like chronic on afundamental level.
The, that if you want to makethe connections between all of
what I do.
Press handstand is literallyjust a series of movement
patterns that you're trying tocreate.
Chronic pain is just a series ofmovement patterns that you're
trying to undo.
On every level because themuscular dysfunction.
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That created the skeletal painwas a result of faulty movement
patterns from something thatcreated the muscular
dysfunction.
That muscular dysfunctioncreated the.
Chronic pain, right?
At the skeletal level, but thenas a result of the pain that was
created, your body then creatednew movement patterns as a
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result of whatever pain orinjury.
That you were dealing with,right?
So the body is fluid.
It's not static, right?
Our body is a complex machine orbrain is extremely complex and
it's creating new movementpatterns all the time.
It's creating different andnewer movement patterns all the
time based on the data that it'sreceiving, right?
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Based on real-time data thatyour brain is receiving.
It's working to create newermovement patterns for you
consistently.
So if you go back to.
Again, that approach to realizethat the fundamental level of
everything that's going on isdysfunctional movement patterns
that have created dysfunctionalmuscles that have created pain
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in the skeleton.
And then when you have pain,it's similar, right?
We've all sprained an ankle atone point in time, or maybe
we've pulled a hamstring.
The thing about it is if you payattention when you sprain an
ankle or pull hamstring, Whatchanges you walk differently?
Your body learns to walkdifferently.
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And when our body walksdifferently.
What's what is going on behindthe scenes is that our brain is
learning.
It's teaching our body a new wayto walk, to deal with the pulled
hamstring or the sprained ankle.
And when that goes on longenough, if that isn't addressed.
New movement patterns can becreated.
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And those new movement patternslead to muscles working in
different ways than they'redesigned to work.
Because again, Our brain.
Isn't smart enough to determinewhich patterns are good for us
and which are bad for us.
It only is the only thing itunderstands is how often are you
doing it?
And the more often you create amovement.
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The more your brain, the.
The more likely your brain is toget to work at creating a
pattern, to make it easier foryour muscles to do that.
Even at the expense of themuscles, by the way, that's how
muscles dysfunction.
That's the roots of musculardysfunction in the body and
muscles that don't engagecorrectly.
Muscles that don't workcorrectly.
That's the root of all of it.
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The root of the whole thing.
Is understanding that our brainis constantly creating patterns
constantly.
And we may think.
Once we have a back injury.
That it's isolated maybe just tothat or chronic pain in her
back, but we're walkingdifferently, whether or not you
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realize that you're walkingdifferently because of that pain
that you're experiencing in yourlower back, that is creating
other movement patterns, whichcreates more pain.
That's why pain jumps around inthe body.
So that's the pain cycle.
Understanding that pain cycle.
Is understanding what happensand that's why.
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The that's why addressingchronic pain is so difficult
because a number one, there's alot of different parts.
There's again, there's a lot ofdifferent.
Moving parts to this, which isokay.
First I've got the manifestationof the problem.
Which is the symptom, right?
The manifestation of a problemis a symptom.
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The symptom in the back is aresult of some kind of muscular
dysfunction somewhere else inthe body that created that pain
that you're now experiencing inyour back.
That's why different people canhave the same problems by the
way, but they can experiencepain in their body in different
places.
That's why some people can have.
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Problems with the hip flexors,they could have destabilized hip
muscles, for example, but theyexperience one experiences pain
in the lower back, the other oneexperiences pain in the neck.
It's all about where your bodymanifests the pain.
So sometimes.
This is the thing there's lotsof moving targets, right?
There's lots of different,there's lots of different parts
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of the body that couldlegitimately be the problem.
And there's lots of differentproblem points that can manifest
pain in lots of different partsof your body.
And then.
The underlying reason why themuscles were dysfunctioning to
begin with is a result ofmovement patterns.
And based on where you aretoday.
And next month and the monthafter that, the movement
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patterns are always changing.
Your body's always creating newpatterns.
So the thing is it's not astatic.
It's not a static solution.
There's a lot of moving targetsthat you have to juggle.
And things that change, right?
Hitting a moving target.
That's constantly changing atboth levels.
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And the baseline of it is.
Essentially the baseline of itis essentially the movement
patterns that your body is.
Continuously creating.
And that's why lining everythingup is so important to
understand.
And that's why.
That's why the solution tochronic pain berries.
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From week to week, month tomonth, it changes.
It changes there's variablesthat are constantly changing.
And so that's the problem with.
That's the problem with trulyaddressing chronic pain?
Is that.
The modern system and the wayit's designed treats pain as a
scaler, but it's actually moreof a vector in that.
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You've got multiple differentthings that you have to
understand.
You have to juggle.
But by doing that's where youlearn.
That's how you actually solvethe problem, right?
The gets how you get the chronicpain to go away.
You have to balance the muscles.
You have to balance your musclesfirst.
And then you have to first, thefirst step is to address what's
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causing what's the underlyingroot of the symptom.
Which part of the body isactually causing the pain and
where you're experiencing it.
And then which of those musclesare dysfunctioning.
Not working correctly that arecausing.
That problem.
So everything starts at the,everything starts at the
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movement, that movement patternlevel, but it's moving through
all of these targets to try totruly understand what's going
on.
Like the really understand.
What's going on.
And this is the solution togetting it to go away.
It's not again, if you'reserious about really.
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If you're serious about trulyunderstanding.
And balancing your body.
Like the solution is simple.
It's balancing your body, abalanced body, never experiences
pain.
A balanced body, neverexperiences pain.
It never experiences ongoingpain.
So the one single solution toaddressing chronic pain.
Is understanding.
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That it's just simply balancingyour body.
I must balance my body.
I must go on a quest and thatmeans.
Understanding the way themuscles work, understanding how
they should work.
How they should function.
And that's the cool thing.
Like I've talked about this far.
I'm not going to talk about iton this specific show, but
that's why press handstand isrural coal for chronic pain
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because balanced bodies, I'venever seen a balanced body that
can press handstand.
That can do a press handstand.
And at the same time, I've neverseen a balanced body that's in
pain.
So the two go.
The two go hand in hand.
And by default, what that meansis that it balanced bodies.
It balanced bodies, compressedhands, Dan and balanced bodies.
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Don't experience pain.
The solution to.
The solution to overcoming.
Chronic pain is to balance thebody.
If you're not in the press handsense, that's totally fine.
But the nature in which youtrain.
For press handstand isessentially balancing the body.
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It's going through all thosepieces to balance the body.
That's why.
That's why like with my clients,for example, who have chronic
pain of some sort who aren'tinterested in pressing the hand
set at all.
It's the same process you gothrough just remove the end
result.
It's like that is the process.
Like just when your body istruly balanced, press handstand
is just a representation thatyou can do that.
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That's the way chronic painworks and that's why it's
important.
And these are questions you haveto ask for yourself.
And this is where this is reallywhat makes a difference.
If you've been, if you've beenstuck look, I've seen a lot of
people who have been in pain forlong periods of time.
And it's sad when you start tolive with it, right?
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Because you start to just acceptthe fact.
That it's your reality.
And you start to accept thefact.
That.
That's the way your body worksand it's always going to be that
way and you give up hope, butthe reality is you can solve the
problem.
But in order to solve it, youhave to ask yourself these
questions.
Okay.
So you can repeat this.
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I, if you're interested, if youguys are interested, I could do
a whole topic.
I can do a whole nother topicon.
Shoulders, neck hips, whateverit is, I'm using the back on
this one, but the sameprinciples apply to wherever it
is.
Ask yourself if I'm experiencingback pain, understand that is
the manifestation of the problemor the symptom.
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So number one, that's the firstpoint understand that.
The second point is askyourself.
The next thing to understand iswhich part of my body is the
actual problem that's causingthe pain.
Because once you understand theactual part of your body, that's
understanding pain, you can getto work on it.
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That's why, when people ask me.
That's why when sometimes peopleask me why don't you just tell
us what to do to have.
Like when they have back pain,why don't you just tell us
people will write it on socialmedia.
They write it on my ads andsometimes like emails.
Like, why do you talk about backpain?
Why don't you just tell us whatto do?
And this is why I don't justtell people what to do is
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because it's different foreverybody.
It's different for everybody.
I can't make the assumption.
That the.
I can't make the assumption thateveryone's back pain came from
the same source.
It came from the same problem.
That's why I don't do it becauseit's irresponsible to do it.
It's if you don't trulyunderstand what's in front of
you.
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You can't solve the problem.
It's impossible.
Unless you know what you'reworking with, then everyone's
back pain is different, right?
Yeah.
Are there some that are slightlysimilar?
Yes.
Are there some that are Evenpartly similar or 90% similar.
Yes.
But there's still a lot they'redrastically different.
And that's why.
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That's why the traditional waysto solve.
That's why the traditional likemedical and pharmaceutical and
surgical route to solve backpain.
Doesn't work.
Because it treats.
All back pain as the same thing.
Everything is the same, right?
It's one solution.
No matter where the pain camefrom, they don't address that.
That's why I don't just giveblanket solutions, especially
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with Sometimes when it comes tohandstands and arm balances,
stuff like that, there's generalthings like everyone can do.
That are helpful, but when itcomes to back and what comes to
chronic pain, this the thingabout it, and the reason I'm
careful.
Is because.
The one w one.
One recommendation that can helpsomeone else can hurt someone
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else more.
So it's irresponsible to do itunless you truly understand
what's going on.
That's the next part, is tounderstand again, ask yourself
the question.
Do I understand the source of mypain?
If you're in chronic pain?
The first thing you need to dois stop everything else and
start to investigate.
Think, write down journal.
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Where could be the actualproblem in my body that's
causing this pain, right?
Is it as a result of hips backshoulders, neck, which part of
my body is dysfunctioning tocause pain.
So the process that you do to gothrough that is you have to
journal, right?
So you have to journal at pointsin your life and things you've
done and sports you've playedactivities that you've done in
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the past hiking, cycling,swimming, whatever, that's all
sports athletic stuff, but also,have you had any injuries?
Have you had things go wrong inyour body.
You have to make a list, right?
This is one of the, this is.
Actually, I think one of themost rewarding parts for people
to understand, like this is whatwe do with our clients is we go
and we literally make a list.
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Of all of the, like theirhistory of movement, we comb
through their body.
The history of their body, whatit's been through, what injuries
they've had things, experiencesthat have come up.
Things in their body sports,they played et cetera, et
cetera, because this will shedlight on the types of movement
patterns that those events,experiences, sports have.
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Have in tune allowed your bodyto build, right?
So then you can look at thosemovement patterns and you can
say, all right, so these, atsome point in your life were
unhealthy movement patterns thatcreated this dysfunction in this
muscle.
So as a result that is literallysat with you maybe for decades
and decades, which is now becomea problem in this area, which
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you're now manifesting the painin your back.
So that's the first thing isunderstanding the source,
getting to the source and fullyunderstanding that and where
that is like when you're crystalclear on the source of your
pain.
The pain now becomes verymanageable and this is how you
can get it to go away.
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Now the other thing here.
Is that, okay.
Now do what I just said.
You have to figure out while Iunderstand the source, what
movement patterns created that,right?
Because you have to undo thosepatterns and then even create.
Newer patterns.
That override the older onesthat train your body for healthy
movement.
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That's the next solution?
Okay.
So if I understand that a musclesomewhere is causing a pain in
my back and my muscles actingthis way.
Because of a faulty pattern thatI created.
Now I need to go and I need tobuild movement patterns, newer
patterns.
I need to override the olderones that are unhealthy with
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newer ones that are healthy.
So that way the muscle that'scausing the pain stops working
in the way that it does.
Because when the muscle thatcauses the pain stops working in
the way that it does, then youno longer have the pain, you now
have relief and you, what you'vedone is you've created the, you
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have now created the environmentfor the body to actually heal,
right?
Not just at the root, but.
Not just at the root.
Not just at the surface, but atthe actual root.
Do you understand how that'sdifferent?
You're con you're essentiallyjust altering your movement
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patterns under the surface thatare creating.
Your muscles to functiondysfunction, which in turn
creates the pain.
Right?
Muscular dysfunction over timecreates pain.
It's something that's reallyimportant to remember, right?
Faulty movement patterns overtime, create muscular
dysfunction over time createspain.
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So the pain that you'reexperiencing is a manifestation
of all of those other things,all of those things that happen.
So getting to that, getting anuncovering, that is the solution
that right there.
Is the solution to.
Overcoming chronic pain.
If you want it to go away,that's the process, right?
That's.
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That's literally the process andthat means.
Combing through.
And that's why with.
That's why like with my clients,we take the anatomical approach
because number one, I firmlybelieve that knowledge is power.
And I have never seen someone.
I have never seen someone withchronic pain that understands
the way their muscles work,plain and simple.
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Like when someone has chronicpain and they start to go down
the journey of understanding theway their muscles work.
They become.
They not only have theknowledge, but now when they
understand they can actually fixthe problem, right?
Like they can just fix theproblem because now they have
some understanding of what'sgoing on, which is.
Which is behind the surface,right?
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Like very, it's a, it soundssimple in theory, but there's a
lot of different moving parts,but that's.
That's exactly how you can doit.
And wanting to go under thesurface.
Is.
It's not for everybody.
But if you really are in painand you want to live a better
life, it's.
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A critical thing to do, think ofyour body as the vehicle.
It's the vehicle.
It's the one it's like aphysical vessel that we
experience the world and it'sthe only one we get.
It's how we interact with theworld.
We should want that physicalvessel ourselves, our human body
to be performing at its peak.
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To be performing at its best andto be performing in a way which
allows us to maximize ourexperiences.
On this planet and live a reallygreat life.
And it's hard to live a greatlife.
If our bodies.
Are not optimized, right?
If our bodies aren't an optimalpeak conditioning and it doesn't
matter what age you are.
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I know there's people listeningfor a fact.
They always say this.
They say.
I am too old.
I am too old.
To make a change from my body.
I'm always this way.
And the thing.
That my answer to that is it'sBS, right?
That's just the belief in yourmind that when you commit to
change, you can make asubstantial amount of change in
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your body.
So this one is going long, butthere's a lot in there.
And chronic pain is a, it's atricky one, but it's solvable.
It's definitely solvable now.
If you do want, if you do wantsome help, if you do want to
work with us to overcome.
Your chronic pain back pain,shoulder pain.
Hip pain.
There are links in the shownotes below you can apply.
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There's an application, or ifyou want to, you got more
questions you want to shoot mean email.
You can also just shoot me anemail and we can.
We can talk about it then and goover.
What's going on with you so Ican get a gauge.
You can also do that, but it'ssomething where again, if you
want to solve it, that's thesolution.
It's not necessarily an easysolution, but it's a rewarding
solution.
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Now, that's all I've got ontoday's show.
So if this was beneficial foryou and you learn something from
it, tag me in a story onInstagram and.
Share it, let me know what youlearned, how you're going to
apply it, et cetera, et cetera.
And then.
The best way that you can helpsupport the Shogun.
I do the show completely freejust to help you guys.
I realized that most of you arenot going to become clients.
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And that doesn't mean I don'twant to help you.
I still do to help you, which iswhy.
I like to do the show, but ifyou are benefiting from it, one
of the ways that you can helpsupport it is.
To number one, share it withsomebody.
If you know somebody who is inchronic pain or A yoga
practitioner who, who couldbenefit from it or any, anybody
in your circle who could benefitfrom hearing this.
(34:20):
Sharing the podcast is a greatway to help support the show.
And number two, taking some timeto leave a review.
On the show as well.
Leaving a review also helps the,all of the modern algorithms to
get the show into as manydifferent.
Eyes and ears as possible.
Okay.
So that's all I've got for youon today's show.
Have a good rest of your day andI'll talk to you soon.
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