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It takes a zoomed-out view to
understand why you have
musculoskeletal pain.


Most people I see are in good health, yet they have chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Tight, sore muscles may be easy to blame.
It’s not a muscle problem.
Muscles have no will of their own.
The muscles are the loyal workers.

The nervous system tells the muscles what to do.
Your nervous system is telling them to stay tight.

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Pain, tight muscles, and distorted posture are the effects of the problem.
The muscle tension problem is a nervous system habit.
Your nervous system is good a learning.
The tension habits are learned.


Local pain is the boiling over of full body tension patterns.


Tightness and soreness points to the root of the problem.
Full body tension patterns, running at high-idle, boil over as local pain issues.
These full body tension patterns express as posture.
Posture reveals the hidden persistent tensions that your system actively holds.
Most of the tension is outside your awareness.

Attempts to override posture just add to the overall tension problem.


The problem is too much tension.

 

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Your nervous system learns your tension.

1) Stress Tensions
2) Tension of Injury Reaction
3) Repetitive Motion
4) All the Creative Tension Adaptations it had to learn
as you moved through your life.

 


As a human, you are exceptionally good at learning.

Your nervous system has learned your muscle tension habits.

The automatic tension persistence is like a skipping record needle
wearing the groove deeper and deeper. The habits run deep.

Once learned, your system runs these patterns at a high-idle outside your awareness. 


The roots of the problem lie in your breathing constrictions.
The constrictions that feel normal to you.



Your tension problem has been normalized.
Habits become invisible,
like how you get used to a scent in a room.

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The pain is the hint.
The pain is usually not the root of the problem.


The solution requires a zoomed out view.

The solution is to address the root holdings that the other tensions organize around.


Re-educate your system:
With simple easy movement to
take control of the big picture tension patterns.

 

Show your brain how to reset its ability to control muscle tension.
Teach your nervous system out of the problem it runs.

Try this amazing, inward-looking, enjoyable, easy, system of curative movements.
Learn how to get out of the pattern that is causing your pain.

 

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