When Movement Is A Bad Thing
What’s up? Patrick Lerouge here. You can find me at livepainfreeprocess.com. I am an intuitive healing expert and the creator of the Live Pain Free Process; I create innovative ways for you to learn how to heal. Now, today is going to be a setback one. We’re going to actually talk about when it is time to actually move away from free movement in the concept of your shoes. The concept of free movement is the ability to move freely inside of your shoes. There is not much stability to your shoes, so your muscles need to support you. There’s a big free movement fad out there in the world, like wearing Vibrams or bare foot running etc. I am currently wearing minimuses.
In the New Balance sneaker called “minimusus,” free movement is a must; I can move in any different direction, and nothing really stops me inside the shoe, which means my foot muscles have to be really functional in order to support the rest of my body. Your feet are your first foundation. If your feet are not right and functional, everything up the chain is going to have a hard time working, so “When is it time to move from a freebase shoe to more of a structured shoe?” is the question. A freebase shoe is something that can move all the way around. I also have Nike Frees. They also move in many different directions, and they’re able to do anything and pretty much everything. There’s a minimal shoe drop to it as well as movement in the middle of the shoe where a majority of other shoes have a bar or a post in the middle stopping the twist that can occur. Another type of shoe is a completely structured shoe that has no twisting or movement to it.
When is it time to actually go from a freebase shoe to a structured shoe? If your body cannot support the weight load that it needs to do — and it’s actually giving you more pain — it’s time to move out. You need to find a more structured shoe, but not a completely locked in shoe because that stalls everything. You want to find something a little bit up the chain. For instance, I was walking around my house, and I stubbed my ring finger toe to the point where I couldn’t bend it up at all, and I realized two weeks into me walking around consistently that my foot still hurt and I did not know why. I’ve been doing all my stretches. I’ve been doing all my ball work, why is it not working like I asked? Why are my intrinsic muscles not functional?
Then I realized I’m still in my free shoe, and I do a ton of walking. My walking outweighed my restorative work. As I was walking, I consistently started using the area that was falling apart in the first place and trying to heal. I started to wear, in the midst of summer, a little bit more of a dress shoe, and I realized, within a week that it was starting to feel better. It took two weeks before I could get back into my actual shoes because I waited so long.
You have to learn that it takes time for tissue to heal. It’s biology; I can’t say it enough. It takes time. It took me a while to ruin that toe, and it took some time to put it back together because I got away from something that’s so-called “good for you.” It’s time to take a step back and relax. That’s it. You have to learn how to step back, relax for a second, and let your body do what your body can do. Hopefully, this helps you understand what’s going on with other areas of your body like your shoulder and why a shoulder doesn’t get better or your knee and why your knee is not getting any better. It’s because you’re using it way more than it has the capacity to be used. You have to just structure it out a little bit, give it a little break, and still do what you’ve got to do, but give it a little bit of a break.
Hopefully, this helps. If not, please, hit me up. I’ll explain in a different way. If you have any questions, keep it coming. I’m loving it. Until next time, folks, bye.
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Are you using pain as their indicator? Here is why it’s a mistake.
What’s up? Patrick Lerouge here, from Evolve Restorative Therapy. You can find me at livepainfreeprocess.com. I’m an intuitive healing expert and the creator of the Live Pain Free Process. I’ve been creating some innovative ways to get you to learn how to heal. It’s no longer about feeling good anymore. It’s about learning how to heal. Today I want to talk about a massive mistake that I see a lot of people making: they’re using pain as their indicator to assess where they are in their body. The only way that they know something’s wrong is when something is hurting. That never works out well, or they use pain as a way of recognizing their stop point, or their end point.
Using pain as your indicator of something is wrong is like when you are driving and the only time you think something’s wrong is after a horrible wreck. What makes things worse is that we don’t realize the first wreck, so then we into five accidents. That’s way too long for you to recognize that things need to change.
You want to start recognizing smaller actions like I realize that I’m on my phone a lot when I’m driving, that I am focused on the kids, talking with them, handing them things etc. I’m thinking about different problems that I’m having, and the list can go on. But what is happening is that you are no longer paying attention to the road. Those are your indicators, not the five wrecks that you got. If you’re waiting that long, of course something bad is going to happen.
What you have to start doing is lean away from pain as your indicator and start using movement as your indicator. Start seeing how your body is moving; how well are my shoulders moving? How well are my hips moving when I squat?
Here’s a really easy one that you could practice right now. If you go into the Downward Dog position and you attempt to get your heels down and your butt up as high as possible, you’re going to realize the feeling in the lower part of your legs. You want to find out where you start to feel a nice stretch, not an end result of pain.
Now when you were doing it, did you try to get your heels to the ground? If you are saying, “Oh, I can’t do it very well,” please slow down; that’s the place that you want to be, not instantly getting my heels to the ground. You want to find that sweet spot of how your body’s moving and work with it there, not just force it and have the pain stop you in a way where it’s not helpful. That’s when you’re doing your restorative work and your rehab work to actually hurt you, and that doesn’t work.
I want you to start really thinking about what is your indicator of you feeling good. Are you still leaning towards pain, or are you really good with looking at how your body’s moving? Those are the keys. If you are looking at pain as your indicator, start whittling your way out by looking by looking for soreness instead of pain. It’s one step away on the chain of intensity. It’s soreness, and once you start really focusing on soreness, you have a real fighting chance of once you see something happening, having a chance of changing it like that.
But if you keep waiting until you are in pain, you have a good chance of doing tissue damage, and then you’re in an almost guaranteed two or three-day cycle because tissue needs time to heal. That’s just biology. Folks, stop looking for pain as your indicator. Start looking at movement and really start looking for the place right before you get that discomfort to stop in your moving pattern just like the Downward Dog.
I can tell you plenty of stretches that people do it to pain because they think it works better if you push it harder. It never does. Stop going to pain, and start looking at movement. Until the next time folks!
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What to do when you wake up from a sound sleep
What’s up? Patrick Lerouge here from Evolve Restorative Therapy. You can find me at livepainfreeprocess.com. I’m an intuitive healing expert, and I created the Live Pain Free Process. I’ve been creating innovative ways to get people to learn how to heal from within. Today, I would like to talk about the concept of what to do when you wake up from a sound sleep. That’s going to be a touchy subject for a lot of people because sleep is a big deal. A lot of people don’t realize that your body is telling you things at night. Dream states are powerful.
Your body’s always doing working on something, and sometimes when you’re overworked and your brain hasn’t really cooled down — what I call “spooling down” — it actually still processes through the night. Your brain is just a problem solving mechanism. It’s a supercomputer that can solve any problem once you show it one. If you don’t slow down, just like a child, you will have a hard time sleeping. To avoid that with our children, we give them nighttime routines, but we need to have the same thing as adults. If we don’t do our nighttime routine for whatever case that is, your body won’t sleep as well.
What do you do when you actually wake up? You have to realize a couple different things. One is that your brain is probably trying to tell you something. Either you never really closed out of a problem that you were trying to do, and it’s waking you up to tell you, or you’re emotionally triggered by something, physically, mentally, or emotionally that has not been closed. What does that mean? If I wake up because I’m in physical pain, you might wake up and say, “Oh, F. Oh, damn. Oh fill in the blank.” Roll over and say, “It’s 2:00 again. Oh my God,” and you’re just going to start to get triggered emotionally. Once that happens, your brain starts to process ways of getting out of it and figuring what to do next to fix the problem. Once it starts spooling up, that’s when the trouble truly comes in because now your body’s waking up because your brain’s processing faster and saying, “Oh, now it’s time to wake up. Let’s problem solve. Let’s go.” Then cortisone levels start raising. Everything starts picking up its pace and then you’re up.
What is the solution to that? One, recognize what you did wrong. Did I not follow my routine? Did I drink too much? Did I drink too much coffee? Did I watch too much TV late at night, or am I having a problem with my spouse, with my job, with my kids? Whatever the case may be, figure that out instantaneously, recognize it, say, “All right. This is what I need to fix,” and write it down on a piece of paper. I always keep either my journal next to my bed or just a random piece of paper and pen, so if something does wake me up, and I just jot it down — don’t even look, just jot it down — my brain allows me to calm down.
That’s going to be a key, and that takes practice because you’re going to have to realize that you shouldn’t open your eyes, you shouldn’t panic, don’t even look at the clock. You have to realize that you’re awake, calmly breathe, relax, and see what’s happening inside. Either my leg hurts or my shoulder hurts in whatever position. Write it down. If it’s something mental, write it down, or if it’s something physical, roll over nice and easy. Do some nice relaxing breaths to bring the nervous system down.
You’re doing it two-fold. One, if it’s a mental issue, an emotional issue, write it down and make sure you say, “I’ll deal with this in the morning” because that’s when your brain says, “All right. We’re going to deal with it in the morning.” It’s right there. It’s a reminder. It’s good. It spools down. If it’s physical pain, don’t try to get up and do anything. Hold it, take a couple of deep breaths, relax.
Now there is an odd case where this lovely trick does not work, where you’re too emotionally invested in whatever you’re doing, which means it does shoot up. What you’re going to have to do is get out of bed, go somewhere, and write it down in detail. “This is what happened. This is what I’m going to do about it, and this is when.” Really go through that in your head. Then do it.
Do it right then and there. Either do your stretches, do your trigger point work, take a shower, drink some water — do whatever you say you’re going to do to make it better, and then your body will spool down faster rather than you sitting up in bed saying, “Why am I not going to go to sleep,” or, “I should be doing something. ” Get up and actually do it, or else your brain will not shut off and you just stay up longer. I’ve seen people stay up all night because they refuse to get out of bed and walk to someplace where you can write it down in specifics. I’ve seen it happen a billion times. I’ve even done it.
That’s what I learned. I have to get up and really write it down, but sometimes — this is the hardest part, and then I’ll let you go — when you wake up at night, it is for a reason; it could be an amazing thought that you need to write down that will change everything. It’s that big of an idea, so don’t think, “Oh, I’m up again. Dammit.” Think, “All right. Why am I up? What’s happening?” Write it down because you never know. It could be a game-changer. Hope this helped. If you have any other questions, please holler at me. Give me a call on the next one. Bye.
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The Downward Spiral Of Inactivity
What’s up? Patrick Lerouge here from Evolve Restorative Therapy. You can find me at livepainfreeprocess.com. I’m an intuitive healing expert and the creator of the Live Pain Free process. I create innovative ways for people to learn how to heal. We must stop trying to just feel better and start learning how to heal by looking and focusing within. Today’s topic is going to be the concept of the downward spiral of inactivity.
I had a client that was coming in for the first time, and I asked her what she is doing to feel better, what’s going on in her life? She started telling me that a doctor said that she is in bad shape. She needs to stop doing everything that she’s doing — stop working out, stop going for the walks — because every time she does, she was hurting herself. The doctor said, “Stop.” I was like, “That’s absolutely wrong.” My client asked, “Why?” The body needs to move. The movement creates energy within the body that allows your cellular system to function. The more muscle tissue moves, the more energy it promotes, and the faster your body heals.
It’s not like you need to stop doing everything and being inactive; you need to stop doing the things that are hurting you and do them in a safe manner. Think about it as a downward spiral because you’re inactive versus an upward spiral of activity and restoration. Everything and anything could be an activity. Walking for example, or just being outside, and doing all the things that you love to do is activity. You just have to learn how to do it in a way where it’s no longer getting your body to protect itself; it’s getting your body to open.
Being outside, all I have to do is walk around, look at the trees, and feel what’s happening in the world, like the wind blowing. Listen to your surroundings during a leisurely walk. Do not take a hard, heavy-paced walk like they say cardio is, but a leisurely walk. Get your body to start moving. If you’re really in bad shape, this is where you start — just walking outside, being outside, and listening to the birds, listening to the cicada, listening to the trucks, listening to the construction. In listening to so many different things as you’re walking around, your body is actually starting to get better and better because you’re outside in the world.
Once you get past that and used to that, you can ratchet it up to maybe a brisk walk, but you cannot just keep pushing yourself because it’s the good thing to do, and you damn sure just can’t stop moving. You cannot just lay and do bed rest because something’s not going to work. Your body needs to move. One of the recommendations that I do with my kids is when they start getting ill, when they’re snotty and all sorts of nasty, I kick them outside. We go for a walk, even if it’s really, really cold, and get that mucous out. We’re not walking around naked like Polar Bear Club, but we’re bundled up and taking a walk around the neighborhood.
It’s nothing hard or heavy-hitting; it’s just to get them fresh air and to get the sun even though it’s wintertime. It’s the sun; it gets everything to start opening up. Move, move, move, and that’s when your body starts to really start kicking up the things that it needs to heal, but only if you do it in a safe way. Folks, if you have any questions about this, please email me. I would love to talk to people more about this because this is something that a lot of people don’t understand — the downward spiral of inactivity. Until next time, folks, bye.
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Something you can do outside to help achilles and calf pain
What’s up? Patrick Lerouge here from livepainfreeprocess.com. I’m an intuitive healing expert, teaching you innovative ways to heal. What I have for you today is a question that was posed to me. “What do you do to help yourself when you’re outside?” I decided to do some work outside today. What I want to show you is things that you can do on stairs. Stairs are everywhere, as well as a curb. I want to take apart the concept of stretching your calf differently when you’re outside and when you’re running about your day.
There’s two different types of contractions that a muscle can do. It can be a concentric contraction, where you’re just contracting and the muscle shortens, or an eccentric contraction, where it’s holding load while getting longer. The eccentric is what I really want to focus on. I want you to really take in is, the muscle contracts so it shorten. When you’re muscles are elongating, that’s when your body starts to talk to you more. That’s when a lot of pain sensors start becoming more vocal. I did a video tip on the pain cycle and eccentric is all about the pain cycle. What you must do is look back at that video if you didn’t see it.
I want to change your normal, natural way of walking up stairs into a restorative way of walking and moving up stairs. The concept that I want you to really start focusing on is, when we walk on stairs, we either take a step or hold our foot straight, or you would pick ourselves up. Very similar to a calf raise. What I really want you to start learning how to do is an eccentric way of walking up the stairs. When you walk up the stairs, you’re going to step and instead of holding it sturdy, you’re actually going to allow your heel to move downward. What that’s going to do is start rewiring how your body actually starts to take stairs. Now every step that you do, stair-wise, is going to be naturally eccentrically loading your muscle. In other words you will be naturally with ever step teach your caldf how to take load and elongate without tearing. Almost like the concept of walking up a hill.
When we were cavemen, we didn’t have flat surfaces. We didn’t have to memorize the height of a stair, right? Your body always had to eccentrically load something. You’re doing many different types of movements. In today’s times it’s so structured that we don’t have that variability. Which hurts us eventually.
What I want you to do is every stair that you come about, do an eccentric load. At first it’s going to feel odd, but then it’s going to start feeling real good. That’s because your body’s learning how to consistently open, not just contract.
Send me some comments on this, because this is actually something I do all the time. I tell all my clients, especially with Achilles issues, to start doing this and it shows almost immediate results. All right? Until next time, bye.
