THIS IS AN OPEN CONVERSATION, NOT JUST A RANT ;)

The pain industry is a multi billion dollar one in the USA

Yet statistic shows that 60 to 80% of the population is experiencing or will experience chronic pain.

Those numbers just don’t make sense.

You either way fix a problem or try to.

You don’t milk the cow till it dies!

So how do we help people go from chronic pain to a healthy lifestyle?

We break the myths!

Here are 3 myths that totally should not stand in your mind anymore.

Myth 1

Pain will kick my butt and their is nothing I can do about it! It’s just part of aging!

My favorite most wrong myth ever, cause reasons.

Ok I could bring you some scientific datas or talk the talk for hours on that one.

Thing is one of my best story about it was with one of my clients.

We started working on his pain in 2009 with fused ankle and neck vertebrae from years ago. He was 65 then.

After working together one and off for years he became more and more limber and more and more pain free. (It took us a while cause lots of stuff needed to change lifestyle and mindset wise as well; it’s a whole lot of things to process)

Now that is a lot from someone with fused parts and massive traumas.

The ankle was shattered after he got propelled in the air while the boat was on a big wave, and landed when the boat was push back up again.

Big ouch!

I got several stories like that and could go on for a while.

Short version: YOU CAN AGE AND GET HEALTHIER AND PAIN FREE!

Myth 2

You can avoid pain!

Well, not really.

Sorry to break it down to you pal/gal, but unless you live in a bubble and do squat about your life, you will get your body whipped by some sort of pain at a moment or another.

Suffering though is an option.

Now we could get all polemic on definitions and semantics here but the idea is that when you have a chronic pain, I define this as suffering. My way of looking at it.

At the moment of the acute pain, I call that pain. It is just that a big booboo that happens, well it's painful.

So short version: pain happens in a moment/suffering drags for a while.

So to me suffering IS what needs to be addressed then.

Not simply pain.

But suffering.

Some of that is physical and some is learned. Basically the physical part we understand as its self explanatory: “ouch I hit the chair, it hurts!” (Pain). Days later you have been super apprehensive and walked weird to protect your foot or whatever and then you walk all fearful and wanky. That’s the learned part. Deal with it too. If not it can last for decades, trust me on that. I had some clients that suffered for 45 years after the onset.

Short version: YOU GONNA GET HURT! GET BACK IN THE HORSE AND ADDRESS IT TILL IT’S ALL BETTER!

Myth 3

Medicine is my only option and I surgery my last hope.

All right this one will make everyone jazz and we will argue for hours if I let it happen.

I believe medicine and surgery are useful when righteously given and all other holistic and appropriate options have also been used in the treatment plan.

Thing is, holistic health will help you more than you can think.

You don’t believe me?

You thinks that's all woo-woo and all?

Beside the fact that I don’t mind some well guided woo-woo, here the fact: holistic health is the way of the Warriors and if you sit for hours then my friend you are a warrior! Period.

Some will say: “well I sit for hours it’s not an exercise its just relaxed and low key”

To those I will answer: “you are a fool if you believe that!”

Asking of your body to maintain a form (any form for that matter) for hours at the time is HARD CORE BANANAS! It’s like an intense training. Wu Tan clan Shaolin monk super hero level.

Replace “sitting at the desk” by any type of sports: “ I _____ from 9/5 5 to 6 days a week” and you will say to those people: “wow, you are a Shaolin monk super hero warrior”, or whatever fancy your mind at that time.

So the next step is to realize that someone who trains for that long during the day needs to recoup for quite some time.

Apply that to your life.

Get better!

Take care of yourself!

short version: RECOUP!

So now..

I would rather we spend those billions of dollars on vacations and fun activity parks where people can play and get healthier or even having more sidewalks (there are not a lot here in north county San Diego, could be great for people to walk)

Anyway.

Comment below if you agree or disagree or even if you ant to talk about Shaolin monks (hint: I love those kinda stuff ;)

Cheerio and take care of yourself!