Stream Thinking Adopting Your Parent's Body Pains

As a child, I always heard my parents complaining about how much pain they were in. Their legs, hips and backs. Never once did I think it was headed my way. My mission to make sure I don't pull this machine off the path.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in
your present place of right now. To get there requires
some practice. I do it every single day. This thing
called practice. One sheet of paper, just ten minutes, write
about whatever is moving through your presence of right now
without any type of judgment. Stream thinking will sharpen your
skills as a listener, as a communicator, and as an activator.

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It's learning how to trust your right now. This is
stream thinking today. We're reading from November ninth, twenty twenty four.
As a child, I never truly understood why mom and
dad constantly complained about being in pain. For my dad,
it was his legs. My mom her hips and legs.
Never once did I think that it was headed my

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way learning how to manage your pain. It can lead
some into thinking how stopping your activities is the best
walk and way, when in fact, most insurance companies have
created wellness programs and apps to keep all ages physically active.
Being inactive causes cartilages to shrink and stiffen. Ligaments and

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tendons shorten and lose flexibility. As we reach deeper into
our older years, don't forget to reach outward. Be of
great health kind of a tough little cookie to bite into,
isn't it. Oh my legs are hurting, Oh my back,
my shoulders, Oh god, I'm going to complain today. I'm
not going to go into work today because oh my god,

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oh my foot. Oh I got this thing I can't
even pronounce, but it's got like eighteen letters in it. Yeah,
we're all doing it. You got to hold yourself accountable.
You really do have to be focused in on who
you are as a human being and realize that your
body is a machine. If you agree to stop, if
you agree to set things aside, not only are you
going to gain weight and fight like hell to get

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that weight off, but what you're going to do is
you're going to put yourself in a situation where you're
gonna start questioning why you didn't hold yourself accountable years ago.
One of the hardest things I've had to deal with
over the past forty years is that in nineteen eighty five,
I checked in at one hundred and sixty seven pounds
at my heart attack time. In two thousand and nine,
I was two forty two before I turned to the

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age of fifty. I wanted to lose fifty pounds and
I did it, but the problem is I regained some
of that weight, not a lot of it, but some
of it. And then I got this kick in the
butt that said, you were once one sixty seven, why
can't you get back there figure it out? Presently, I'm
at one seventy eight, just eleven pounds away from where
I was in nineteen eighty five, and it's currently twenty

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twenty five. It can be done, but you've got to
hold yourself accountable. Every day I do my stretches. You
don't have to go out and do a jog. You
don't have to go out and pump weights every single day.
Do your stretching. Your stretching is so valuable. If your
foot is not talking to your calf, and then your

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hamstrings and then your lower back, they've got to communicate together.
Now I'm not a physical therapist, but I've been in
so much pain, and I've read about it so much
much that all I can say is hold yourself accountable.
If you don't want to check in, then don't bitch
and complain about the pain. You're going to have it
the older you get, manage it. See this is what

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one professional told me one time. Pain management is based
on one thing. You are comparing yourself to who you
were ten or fifteen years ago. When you have pains
in your legs, you're going man back when I was twenty. Man,
I could do all of this. I don't know what's
wrong with me today. Because you're now fifty or sixty,
maybe you're forty and you're in pain, You're not going
to be that same person. But if you manage your

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pain and stay in the present place of right now,
the pain isn't that bad. Sure it's there, but maybe
it's a border. It's keeping you from future injury. Listen
to it, take good notes, but hold yourself accountable. I'm Errol,
and that's stream thinking.