You do a lot of work, say cleaning, for example. And at the end of the day, you feel good, but tired. You go to sleep that night, and wake up in the morning and everything is fine.
A few weeks later, you do a very similar amount of work. But this time, you feel tight as you work, and you start to get sore. By the end of the day, your back aches. You are glad to lie down to get rest, but you wonder how it happened. Then the next day, you wake up and you are still sore. In fact, you have to take the day off or curtail your activities to keep the soreness manageable.
Why did your back hurt the one time but not the other? Most often, we look for a physical reason. We think things like, "I guess I worked too hard today." Or, "Well, today I probably didn’t take enough breaks."
We tend to look for the cause of our pain in this way. But your body is not just reacting to the stress you put it under physically. It is also reacting to the stress you put it under mentally and emotionally.
Did you know that every thought you have creates a physical reaction in your body? Your heart rate, your muscles, your blood flow, adrenaline production…all of this can change in reaction to your thoughts. Those thoughts associated with strong emotions will cause the greatest change.
In B.E.S.T. chiropractic, we call this fighting tigers. Due to the reaction to some stress, your physiology is acting as if you were fighting a tiger. Many times, when we are sore after we exert ourselves in a typical way, we were fighting tigers to some degree, in addition to the actual physical work. In such cases, we are, in effect, forcing our body to do double duty.
In these cases, the stress and our body's reaction is the cause of our soreness. The way to get over lingering aches and pains is to discover, identify and neutralize the stress that existed at the time the “injury” occurred. The best and quickest way to do this, in my experience, is with the Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique (B.E.S.T.), an advanced form of chiropractic treatment.
There are many ways to prevent this from happening in the first place. One is to become aware of when you are under stress. Are your shoulders raised? Is your heart beating faster than usual? Do you feel tense, on edge, or stiff? Once recognized, it is essential not to freeze up and hold your breath. This is an extremely common reaction to stress. While it helps us to feel in control, it, in effect, locks the stress in our system. This is when we suddenly get pain and feel sore.
Keep your body, your jaw, your shoulders and your eyes moving. And continue to breathe. In fact, make an effort to breathe more deeply than usual. You may be surprised at the difference this makes.
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