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 have a pain-free concierge practice which is based off of my Live Pain-Free Process. The Live Pain-Free Process gives you a step-by-step process to eliminate pain physically, clarifies your mindset, and balances out your emotional state. A lot of people love it because it easily helps person live and move pain-free, but athletes are seeing that it optimizes their athletic performance. Actually, this is the month of March, and we’re going to be dealing with knee pain, but this week I want to teach about the first step of the live pain free process. We’re going to take apart the first step, which is exploring positive feelings as the first step in getting your body to actually heal for the long term. What the pain-free process is different because there are tools out there that teach you how to do certain things, like you could take courses on foam rolling, trigger point, and stretching. You could take courses on all these different things to do something to your body where it’s an external process. The pain-free process is all about learning to look within and dealing with your own issues, to helping you perform optimally on all levels, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
A lot of people say, “Yeah, I’m supposed to do my self-care, I’m supposed want to do my self-care,” and they’re hesitant to do it. There’s a restriction; they resist it. By understanding the Live Pain-Free Process, you understand why you’re supposed to do it, so that resistance becomes a lot less, because you’re doing things based on the why rather than the “you should be” doing this.
It’s like, “All right. This is why my body is not functioning properly, and this is why I have to get going.” That’s always going to propel you that much further, and it teaches you to look within and see what’s happening with your limiting beliefs, what’s happening within your mind, what’s happening within all those things. That’s why it works so well.
The very first step is exploring positive feelings. Exploring positive feelings is all about getting you to understand that the body talks to you in more sensations than just pain. We’re in a society driven by looking at pain, worries, and negative aspects because it’s hardwired into ourselves. It’s our custom; it’s nature. We look at the world as if it’s going to eat us because one upon a time, we were at the bottom of the food chain. We had to look for something wrong so we could stay alive. It’s not like that anymore, but we’re only quantifying our body by saying, “I hurt here, this bothers me, this is not right, I’m sore here, I can’t move this way,” and so much more. If you keep looking in that negative way (I’m calling it negative so we can give you the balance), your body’s always going to give you what you seek.
So the first step, exploring positive feelings, noticing there’s other sensations inside the body that your body gives you consistently. If you start looking for those sensations on a regular basis, your body will start giving you what you seek. Now, you look at your body beginning to feel lighter. You’re going to start feeling more blood flow. You’re going to start feeling fluid with your movements. You’re going to feel pliable. You’re going to have all these different things going on in here because you’re looking at it, and you’re seeing that it’s already there. Your body’s going to start performing better because that is what you are looking for.
When a client comes in, we go grab the pain free manual, and we literally go through and say, “Oh, exploring positive feelings.” It’s all about seeing the body as speaking to you as more than just pain.
Then, we go through a treatment, and we bounce back and forth about what you used to feel versus what you feel now. That’s the first structural aspect behind exploring positive feelings; you have to understand, you have to start tracking yourself consistently. You have to see where you began and where you end, and the more times you do that, you start to give yourself a point of reference. You start realizing what’s working and what’s not. If something’s not working, don’t do it.
Then you have to understand that you’re doing the core three, in a way that’s not just “I need a foam roll,” or, “I have to do fascial tissue work.” If you’re smart, you’re going to do things in slow learning manner to learn to communicate with your body, but if you don’t see the tracking mechanism, you’re never going to see if it’s working or not.
You’re doing the core three to learn about your body, to communicate with your body, which then you’re seeing what your body is doing afterwards. You’re learning how to communicate with your body. That’s a key component—you have to do your core three in a learning manner. You have to start learning how to describe what your body’s talking about. You have to learn how to communicate. You have to see that your body is talking to you in ways other than pain.
When you do feel that, acknowledge it. Say, “Wait, this is starting to get a lot more pliable. This is a lot better movement pattern. I can squat better; I can run faster. And it feels so springy!” All these things need to come out of your mouth verbally, so you can hear it and your body can recognize it. Then, it’s going to start looking for it.
If you start looking for a springy area within your body, it’s going to be contagious; it’s going to start adding more positive sensations everywhere. That is the concept behind exploring positive feelings, and that’s what I want you to start doing within the first step of the pain-free process. That is looking inward, and now you’re taking it outward.
If you guys have any questions about this, hopefully I answered a lot about the Live Pain-Free Process within the first step. There’s five of them. Give me a holler, give me an email, you know, hit me up. And if you need more help, go to the pain-free zone. There are a lot of videos there that can help you, as well as get the Forty Ways List on the living pain-free. It’s a cute PDF that gives you forty different ways to eliminate your pain.
What’s up? Patrick Lerouge here from Evolve Restorative Therapy. You can find me at livepainfreeprocess.com. I have a pain free concierge practice where I come into people’s homes, eliminate their pain, and teach them everything they need to do based off my live pain free process. It walks you through what you need to do physically, clears up your mind mentally, and gives you a balanced emotional state where you can optimize your athletic performance. I designed this to help people live and move pain free, which brings us to the last thing that we’re going to be doing in this lovely month of February — getting the ankle to open up completely. We went through a pain free mindset, we went through getting the ankle to move in the myofascial world, the ankle moving clearer because of trigger point, which makes you become springier, and now we’re going to get it to communicate properly because you will stretch the ankle properly. Eventually, once you to start doing this regularly, you’re going to do three activities in one sitting so you can get the whole ankle to move just like that, relatively quickly.
All you have to do now is utilize a rope to get your ankle to become more of a movable structure. I’ve seen people use bathrobe towels, but you want to stay away from bands or something that’s going to be a springy object because it’s going to give your muscle tissue a micro-fire aspect, which is a mini bounce sensation.
All you have to do now is relatively easy. Put your hips all the way against a wall. You want to wrap the rope around the ball of your foot once. This is where people make their mistake; they just grab the rope and pull. What I want you to do is just tuck your butt a little further and grab down as far as you can. Once you do that, you’re already going to be getting a pseudo-stretch in your calf. All you need to do is pull on the rope slightly; you should feel the stretch up the entire calf. Take a deep breath. Relax for a second, and then just let the rope go.
Reach down again. Feel the stretch. Take a deep breath. You’re going to feel your stretch working its way up to the back of your knee. You shouldn’t be saying things like, “Oh my god this is a huge. painful stretch,” and you shouldn’t be holding your breath. It should be a nice, easy thing for your body to accept. Then I want you to take the rope and wrap it around the ball of your foot one more time. I want you to grab the rope and pull the inside side. Your foot is going to rotate toward the side you are pulling, so now, you’re clearing out the peroneals. Take a deep breath. Work with it. Then, do the same thing with the other side. You’re pulling on the other side, and you’re working the inside, the intrinsic muscles, the deep fibers of the intrinsic muscles of the evertor. Take a deep breath again. Just repeat. That’s going to clear out your peroneals and your calves.
Remember, you’re just going to do it a couple times. Get the calf working up first, then your peroneals, and then your evertor and invertors. Then I want you to put it to the test. In a seated position, lay your legs out in front of you and bring your foot up. Point your foot and toes down. The more you can arch your feet and point your foot out, the more your tibialis anterior is going to start stretching. Now, you’re getting more ankle range of motion.
If you do this consistently, your body is going to notice that it can do more. It can work with itself more. That’s going to be where your body starts to make it a habit. That’s when things start to really shift. This is where it gets complicated. You now have to take all this newfound knowledge and bring it into your everyday life. When you walk, allow your ankle tissue to move. If you do all this work and then you’re walking stiffly like the majority of us do, your body is still going to revert back. It takes that mindset, that clear mindset, to see what you’re doing and see how your body is responding to everything you do. Start watching people walk. Walk behind somebody, and see if you can see the bottom of their shoe. If you can’t, they’re locking their foot, and they’re not allowing that ankle to move. Start allowing yourself to move.
I did a videotape last year about the proper ways to walk. That will explain everything to you. If you can go through my YouTube channel, look through it. Find it. It’s tips to walking, the proper way to walk. That’s the best way I can explain that, so if you haven’t watched that, please go back to that and check that out. If you guys have any other questions, see you next week. Next week, we’re probably going to walk through the knee. Later.
What’s up? Patrick Lerouge here from Evolve Restorative Therapy. You can find me at livepainfreeprocess.com. I have a pain-free concierge practice that can help people eliminate pain, all in the comfort of their own home, as well as getting you to understand everything that you need to eliminate pain. I do this based off of my Live Pain Free Process. It walks you through a step-by-step on what to do physically, using the core three: foam rolling, trigger-point, and stretching, all getting you to clear up what’s happening in your mindset. It gets you thinking clearly, as well as emotionally balance you out. If you’re an athlete, this is definitely an athletic optimizer, but I designed this whole thing to help a person live and move pain free. This is week three within February, which is the ankle month for Evolve. We already went through the pain free mindset aspect and dealing what’s happening in the emotional world. If you didn’t see it, please go back and reference it. Then, we went through what you have to do: foam rolling, which is working with the calf. It’s a different way and a different thought process than the majority. That was last week; if you didn’t watch that, please watch that. All of them add up to the world of trigger-point, which is the next stage in fixing this ankle issue. Getting your body to do things in a trigger-point world is going to have your body contract more, where the fascial system allowed you to get more range of motion within your ankle itself. The trigger-point work will actually get you to contract better which will make you springier. Jump higher, jump faster, run faster, all different aspects of muscle tissue contraction.
I’m going to show you areas for your calf, your peroneals, and your tibialis anterior. All three of those will allow the ankle to unlock itself, and that’s going to be the main key for us – unlocking the ankle itself. However, we’re going to start with getting you to learn why the joint originally locked.
One of the easiest things you could do is utilize a hand ball because remember: stability v. mobility. If you don’t get the intrinsic muscles of your feet working, your ankle joint has no choice but to be a stable joint. One of the easiest things you can do is apply weight load to the intrinsic muscles of your feet, start working though those, and hitting those contractile units. With foam rolling I told you not to look for those hot-spots, but here you will. You’ll be targeting those with a hand ball rather than a golf ball or lacrosse ball because a hand ball becomes surgical as you start using it if you allow your body to do the work. It becomes surgical by pinpointing trigger-points.
That’s the first thing. I want you, actually, to start rolling out your feet and trigger-pointing your feet, which then will get your intrinsic muscles to start contracting a little bit better. That’s number one.
Number two, I want you now to cross your legs. Your calf itself has two major bellies that run up inside and outside of your lower leg. I want you to focus on taking a girly leg cross and place the calf on the lower knee so the calf spreads. Be careful; a lot of times, the calf will clump to one side and then you’re going to be getting the inside, the deep muscles of the lower leg, which is okay but not our focus at first. You want to get those eventually, but right now, I want you to focus on the calf. It needs to be straight, and you need to target one of those two heads. Grab the area right above where the knee-cap hits the calf. Push the calf right into your lower knee-cap. Straight in. Hold. Do not pull. All I want you to do is sit up. It’s just a small straighten of the spine, which is going to allow your body to slightly move, and that’s going to give your trigger-point the pressure it needs to release.
As you start to work your way all the way down or up the calf, once you find the hot-spot, I want you now to sit there for a second. Take a breath into your lower body and let it relax as you allow yourself to drop down lower. It’s almost like you’re milking that trigger-point as you run up and down in small chunks. Then to get the middle part of your calf, you’re going to have to slightly tuck and rotate the leg a little bit more. Then you’re going to now pull in again and sit up. The same process applies working your way all the way down the calf. That’s going to be a key component in getting you to clear up your calf trigger-point.
The next area that you want to work with is your peroneals, which is a slightly different maneuver, and it’s actually quite comfortable. It’ll actually get your hip mobility to start coming back. Let’s take a look at that.
Sit on the floor with one leg crossed in front of you exposing the outside of the leg to the ground, similar to a pigeon pose in yoga. Your peroneals are the muscles on the outside of your leg. Feel your outer leg find where there’s a little gully on the outside; you’re going to place the ball right there. I like to get into this position because it opens up my hip, and that’s how I control the majority of the movement, but you can just put your hands down to control your leg. As long as your weight load is controlled, all you’re going to do push down on your leg; take a deep breath because it will get tender. Slowly allow it to work its way in. Don’t try to push too fast. Take a deep breath, move it back down. Allow it to come in, and continue this process until you finish the leg.
Relax into it, and allow your body to work. You’re going to start feeling all those contractile units start to fire. It’s just a matter of you working the outside of the leg. You’re not working the front part of the leg yet. You’re just going to clear up the whole side of the leg, then you’re going to take the ball out, go on your knees, place the ball right beside your shin bone, and place the ball down. Before you put any weight load on your tibialis anterior here, I want you to put all your weight load on your arms in front of your body. Or you can even put up a leg here, but then you sit back on yourself. Just wait; you will get a very tender sensation. Get back up, reposition the ball, and drop back down. Sit on yourself. Continue all the way down the front of your leg.
It’s just a matter of taking your time and getting the right spot with trigger-point. With trigger-point, it’s going to be tender, and there’s going to be discomfort, but it’s not going to be painful. This needs to be that real weird place of “Oh, I like this, but I don’t.” That’s when your body’s going to start saying, “All right, I need to open up.” All we’re doing is getting it to open up, and the way that you’re testing this is by standing up. See how much one leg is becoming springier because you opened up the intrinsic muscles of the foot. You opened up your calf. You opened up your peroneals. You opened up your anterior tibialis. It’s everything in the lower part of your leg. You’re going to notice more and more movement that’s happening, and that’s when you start doing the stretching, which is all next week because if you stretch and try to get the ankle mobility done without the fascial system going, you’re never going win. Without the contractile system, you’re never going to win. It all adds up. You have to do all the steps, so next time we’re going to go over stretching. See you then. Later.
What’s up? Patrick Lerouge here from Evolve Restorative Therapy. You can find me at livepainfreeprocess.com. I have a pain concierge practice that helps people eliminate pain based off of my live pain free process, which helps to eliminate pain physically step by step, clarify your mindset, get you thinking clearly, as well as balance out your emotional standpoint, which optimizes athletic performance, but I designed it for everyone to live and move pain free. This is the month of February. In the first week about sitting in the soup of what’s happening emotionally, mentally, and physically, we got you to start looking at things in a different way. Week two, we’re talking about how to clean up ankle issues. We’re going to work with the foam rolling mobility aspect of the ankle, getting the ankle to start learning how to move freely based off of foam rolling and the fascia system.
We’re going to go straight into the physical aspect of the body using foam roll. Foam rolling is going to be crucial within the movement capacity because the fascia system is the first restraint and layer we must clear. You have to get a muscle learning how to move because fascia is the casing around the muscle hindering movement. It could be for many reasons, like the fascia could be dehydrated, something that people don’t really think about often. If it’s not pliable, you’re always going to have an issue.
I want you to think about getting just this one tip. It’s all about getting your fascia system around your ankle, which is your calf, mainly to start allowing that sliding mechanism to work back and forth without much resistance. That’s all this is.
Foam rolling is all about angle versus weight load. It’s about getting you to do things in a proper manner, so I constantly see people just roll haphazardly, and they just run through the gambit of speed rolling. They run over the knee, and they just go where ever they feel tight, but they’re not actually doing anything.
The fascia system is like Elmer’s glue. It is very tacky, so you have to is warm it up. For the calf, you have to sit at a 90 degree angle, put the foam roller underneath you, and wait for a second. The weight load of your calf and the foam roller not really giving is what’s going to allow the contact that you need. Eventually, your calf is going to start allowing the foam roller to penetrate, and you’re going to start accessing the fascia system.
Another key mistake that people do is target the trigger points that are there. That’s where the trigger point roller device comes in. I call it a chaos device because it’s doing two different things. Trigger points are within the contractile unit of the muscle, and the fascia system wraps around everything, so it’s confusing to the body. If you just focus on thinking “I just need to move,” all you technically have to do is sit here and wait.
Once you wait, you will start feeling that protective layer saying, “Oh, wait. It’s okay.” You can actually start rolling the foot laterally toward the outside. You’re rolling the foot outside and rolling the foot inside. It needs to be at a very slow pace. You are rolling across one portion across the calf, and you’re going to feel some of those bumps. Keep focused on what you’re doing, then move down slightly.
As you come down further and further, you’re going to feel more hot spots. You can sit there and hold and wait, but don’t grind at it. Then, at the very, very end, point your toes, bring your toes up, and hold for a second. Slowly point your toe and hold your toe up. Then you can go back to going side to side because then you’re chunking parts of your calf and having your calf move more and more.
You’re going to notice your ankle tissue becoming more of a movable object because it no longer has the calf restricting it. The easiest way to check this is after you’re done, bring your toes up and then point your feet down. You’re going to notice that there’s a cleaner range of motion on the leg you just worked. There’s a subtle aspect to it that is just easier to move. You do that time and time again, your body will definitely start to kick over and start to move.
This is the other thing: Doing foam rolling for the calf could also alleviate some back pain because it’s going to give you more fascia movement throughout the whole posterior chain. It’s not just the ankle that we’re going to be working with, but it’s going to be working with the whole in general. This is all you need to get, foam rolling wise, to get the ankle to start moving.
Next week, we’re going to go over trigger points. The week after that is going to be stretching. Learning how to do all three of these together is what’s going to really piece your ankle back together and have you start to learn how to move it. That’s just one aspect of the bigger picture, right?
If you guys need any more help, just ask me. If you guys have any more questions, please give them up. If you need any extra help, go to the pain relief zone. I have videos. If you don’t see a video that can help you, just email me. I’ll make you one because that’s how they’re all coming together, right? I’ll see you next time. Bye.
What’s up? Patrick Lerouge here from Evolve Restorative Therapy. You can find me at Livepainfreeprocess.com, and I have a pain free concierge practice. It helps many people get out of pain rapidly based off of my live pain free process. It’s doing well because it helps you eliminate your pain by giving you a step-by-step process to eliminate pain physically. It clarifies your mind as well as balance out your emotional state, which ultimately makes an optimized athlete. I designed it to help people live and move pain free. This month is all about healing the ankle. Ankle issues plague everyone from the common person to the pro-athletes. For example, Rondae Jefferson is currently out from the Nets, and then Victor Cruz has been out for a minute; I would love to work with Victor Cruz. I’ve been watching him for a while, and he’s still not back. I would love to help him out if anybody knows how I can get to him.
There are so many aspects of the ankle that people don’t really focus on. They always think about just the mechanics of the ankle, how the ankle works. There is so much more to it. You have to start thinking about it. The body doesn’t happen to just hurt you for any reason. It goes on and on and on until something blows because it can’t handle it anymore. You haven’t been solving the problem it has been telling you.
Unless you’ve been in a car accident or somebody hit you with a bat and you decide to block them with your ankle, you have a structural problem. I want to bring you through the pain free mindset of healing the ankle.
Rondae Jefferson, Victor Cruz, listen up, because this can help you out. Emotionally, we have to learn how to sit in the soup within pain and figure out what else the body is trying to tell us. When I see ankle issues, knee issues, or major joint issues like shoulders, ankles, and wrists, I always see an inflexibility within their emotional state. I was reading Louise Hay’s book, and she was talking about the concept of not being able to be receptive to positive feelings, to the concept of pleasure. I forget the exact word she used, but I started looking through all my cases, and I started seeing the giver-getter aspect.
The givers, people that give a lot of themselves emotional and physically, couldn’t receive love well because that’s not in a giver’s nature. I started seeing a lot of my cases of those; they were the givers. If I got them just to open up a little bit more and started receiving a little bit of the love in the heart realm, I started seeing their treatment get faster and faster and better and better. In the emotional aspect within the pain free mindset, learn how to sit with this to sit and see what your body is saying. Let’s start seeing how your give and take relationship within pleasure is.
That inflexibility aspect also transfers into the mind. Are you being inflexible with yourself? Saying things like “I have to do to it this way. I have to get better by this time. I have to get things moving because I have to.” You’re not being very flexible or very forgiving with yourself. That’s going to be key because pro-athletes are designed to keep on moving. They’re gladiators. I’ve worked with a lot of triathletes and they’re gladiators. They just keep on going. They have to accomplish their next goal.
They must learn to be soft with themselves. I taught them to be easy with themselves, and they realized that their body started to roll with it. They started to move with it. You have to start becoming more flexible with yourself in the mental aspect. You have to be clearer about what’s happening with yourself. Are you being not flexible mentally with your other goals within your life? It doesn’t have to be in your sport or your activity. It could actually be with your job, with your kids, or with your spouse. All these different things play a key role in healing the ankle. Start looking at yourself as a whole. That’s key.
Then, you start looking at the physical. Within the physical, there’s the stability versus mobility aspect. The ankle joint is trying to protect itself. Maybe the intrinsic muscles of your feet aren’t working properly. If you get those little muscles within your feet working, your ankle naturally becomes more of a movable object. It starts to want to move.
Then you start noticing your body; your foot is supposed to absorb as well as disperse the weight load based off your ankle. Is your foot flat? If it’s flat, you have to start working on getting the intrinsic muscles to start to pick up, creating a little arch, or your arch is too high and rigid. Now when you land on the floor, you’re landing on one side and then collapsing consistently. That’s how you break that pinky bone. Not muscle, the bone. You start fracturing. I hear about these fractures often. I see a lot of calluses being built up around the pinky joint because they consistently land there and start rolling off that area. We are talking about little baby movements here, so it takes an eye to see it and understand how it can add up.
When you’re running, you have ten times the amount of kinetic force based off your weight on that area. Those little movements add up. Start looking at your stability versus mobility within your ankle. Let’s get your intrinsic muscles working as well as what’s happening above your ankle. Is your calf also locking itself in place and being rigid in its movements? It’s your peroneal, your anterior tibialis. The whole front of your leg, side of the leg, back of your leg aspect is what you really want to start working with and want to start seeing become more functional.
That’s what is going to start getting your ankle to move better. Emotionally, what’s happening that you’re not able to see the give and takes of pleasure? As well as mentally, how clear are you with that? Are you being flexible with yourself? Are you being easy with yourself in all realms, not just in the physical, but in the emotional and the mental? Physically, what are you doing for self-care? Are you working with the intrinsic muscles? Are you working with your calf, or better yet from your knees down? Go all the way to the hip. Are you working with your glut? Your posterior chain needs to balance out with your anterior chain. Start seeing a bigger picture, and then your ankle will start naturally wanting to rehab itself because that’s what the body does. Next week, I’m going to show you a couple things on how to tweak your fascia for your calf and for your ankle.
Then, we’re going to go over some trigger point work with your calf, peroneals, and a couple other things within your intrinsic muscles and things like that to get your feet working better. fter that, we’re going to start stretching. We’re going to stretch your calf, your peroneals, and the tibialis anterior. There are so many different aspects, but it’s all about getting your ankle to move better.
For the month of February, let’s do this, right? Oh, if you guys need any other help, please ask me. Also, you can always go to the pain relief zone. I dropped a couple of new videos. I have a shoulder relief video going there. I have the foot and calf. I have the back. I have so many different things in there. If you guys need help, it’s there for you. They’re twenty bucks. They’re easy. Go get them, all right? Until next time guys, bye.
What’s up? Patrick Lerouge here from Evolve Restorative Therapy. You can find me at www.livepainfreeprocess.com. I help people get out of pain extremely fast by using my process called the Live Pain Free process, which literally gives you a step by step aspect on how to eliminate pain physically and how to enhance your mental aspect as well as balance out your emotional states. It easily can optimize athletic performance, but it’s designed to help you live and move pain-free. This week, we’re going to finish up last week’s topic, and it’s all about how to stay out of pain. We talked about getting out of pain. If you haven’t watched it, go back and take a look. We talked about the three things that you need to do to eliminate pain. There are three major things in the macro-view. This week, we’re going to talk about how to stay out of pain. First thing to stay out of pain, you have to understand and know your body is designed to protect itself. The fight-or-flight system will activate continuously, so it’s your job to bring that back down. I have an old video about how I help people understand the fight-or-flight mechanism using my plasma ball. The plasma ball teaches you that if you can focus, and your central nervous system is focused on your fight-or-flight system, just by you focusing on it, it lowers that.
There’s many different macro aspects to staying out of pain. The micro aspects of is this to get to lower your fight-or-flight mechanism, and there’s many ways to do that, but the plasma ball is there to teach you what you need to do in getting that fight or flight aspect down. It’s your job to consciously consistently drop that fight-or-flight mechanism down, and it’s going to keep on kicking on because it’s hard-wired into our cells. It’s been there since the dawn of time, and it’s there to keep you safe. That’s number one. You have to consistently, consciously, continuously — I don’t know how many other ways I can put it — drop that down. To drop it down, find a way that you love, like breathing and meditation; there are many different ways. That is number one.
Number two is a different concept. Everyone understands there is an energetic aspect to ourselves, and everyone understands that we are electrical beings. We’re a giant battery; there’s an electrical aspect to our muscle tissues. There’s laws and principles that balance ourselves out. For instance, within your fascial system, your anterior chain balances out your posterior chain. It’s our job to consistently balance us out electrically, front to back, side to side. Whenever one thing turns on, we have to electrically turn up the other ones, and it happens naturally. It’s not something that you have to think about; the problem is that we’re predisposed to doing certain things now. To balance that out, for example, let’s use the anterior and posterior chain. We live an anterior life; everything is in front of us. The anterior side of our body is electrically getting more stimulus, which now turns off the posterior side.
The way you balance that out is doing more things for the posterior aspect of your body, which balances you out electrically. Now, we’re not talking just anterior versus posterior because there’s so many aspects of electrical balancing. You want to understand there are more benefits when working like this, with that anterior-posterior. When you activate the posterior, it opens you up, it makes you more confident, and it gives you more energy. It does so many things mentally and emotionally, not just physically. Circulation balances itself out with the digestive system. There’s so many aspects of electrical balance that you have to focus on. Now we’re going really microscopic, so electrically, your body has to balance out posterior and anteriorly.
The third thing we have to do is understand on a microscopic level that your body needs specific resources all the time, and they need to be ready to be used at all times for your body to function. You need to have the resources on a cellular level to stay out of pain. Let’s use hydration as an example. If you’re not hydrated all the time and your body is not going to function well, then you’re just running off of yourself. Your body is eventually going to stall out, and it’s just going to slowly tick away. You slowly start to wear yourself out, then you start to get thirsty. When you’re thirsty, you’re already dehydrated, which means you’re way past the gate. You have to drink so much water just to get your hydration level back up to functional, before it starts to want to really heal. You always have to have the resources needed at the time that it’s necessary; that’s the key component.
There’s different diets that do it in different ways, but it’s always about keeping your insulin level at a steady rate, rather than spiking it up and coming down. It’s always about steadiness; it’s always about maintaining homeostasis. All of the diets that are great, talk about managing that insulin level, and that’s again the balance of the electrical. You have to keep that balance.
Those three major things will help you stay out of pain forever, which is completely different in the three things that get you out of pain. They’re all on a big level, but each one of them has its own thing that you have to do. For the three things that you need to worry about today on staying out of pain is number one, constantly getting your fight-or-flight system to calm down. Number two, electrically balance yourself. Easiest one, do more posterior activities rather than your anterior activities when you go to the gym, which then will change your mindset, your emotional state as well as your physical, and the third is start eating things that’s designed to give you more resources inside your body consistently.
Those three things will help you stay out of pain for the duration of your life. Until next time folks, later.
Patrick discusses that there is huge difference between getting out of pain and staying out of pain
