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Hippocrates Quote: “Before you heal someone, ask him if he’s willing to give up the things that make him sick.”
A massage therapist deals with this question constantly. The answers change and the therapist/patient teach each other on the paths to wellness.
Why do I experience some healthy pain when loosening up chronically tight tissue?
I’ll start with the deep answers and get to the stuff that makes possibly more practical sense for you. Answer number one: because you are human. A trigger point/chronically tight tissue, by it’s very definition is tissue so tight it hurts to touch it. One of the quickest, most effective ways for safe remedy is to touch it… It’s difficult to have this discussion with people who think life should be all white picket fences and trust funds, but let’s get back to wellness here.
Hebrews 12:11: “No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening–it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.”
This doesn’t mean no pain no gain as I’m not here for your anger management. What it means is I’ve spent 20 years trying to minimize the pain that you will experience especially at the beginning of a process where you have allowed your tissue to become so chronically tight that at first you’re going to experience some healthy pain but must remember and notice along the way that the pain quickly subsides and you can maintain it from ever even coming back by having the guts to face it for what it is and allow it to be worked out and pay attention to keeping it worked out. Making this complicated as you want and I will but it always boils down to very simple and powerful techniques which really only take a few minutes a day. An expert such as myself who suffered from severe back pain and chronic tension headaches but does no longer and will show you exactly how after loosening up your muscles a little bit to even be able to be at a maintenance level that a non-professional can keep up with.
Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary. Only when you’ve truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ‘ I don’t need it anymore‘. The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. -Eckhart Tolle
Thank you. Fix the grammar in the long paragraph as I didn’t have the gumption… Heck it’s my day off and I do these speeches constantly. The speeches are just icing on the cake okay, the beauty of what I do is that I’ll prove it to you without a word as long as you stay on the table under my hands. So yeah I get that words are just words and everybody’s trying to sell you something constantly, and again the beauty of my profession is the doctor sent you to me and I’m working in a medical facility with the doctors so my job security is you heading towards not needing to see me anymore. Don’t get me started on the money part. If you can’t afford the hundred bucks an hour and have no insurance etc. I’ll walk you through doing it for yourself for free.