What’s up folks! Patrick Lerouge here from Evolve Restorative Therapy. You can find me at livepainfreeprocess.com. Today what we are going to talk about is: why you are in pain. If you are in pain, you are subjecting your body to more stressful stimuli rather than more relaxing situations. You are doing more negative than positive things to your body, so it’s now withering away. You can try to rationalize it, but truly your body is an adaptive, organic system. Your body can change into anything. Yet it can’t change, when it has fallen apart due to a high amount of stress. This holds true for positive or negative stress. Your body focuses on either the ‘rest and relaxation healing’ or the ‘fight or flight’ response. The brain talks with the body through hormones so if your hormones are out of control, you are on one end of the spectrum. It is important that you realize where you are on the stress spectrum. So let’s talk about what stress is.

There are many different kinds of stress and everybody knows about the negative aspects of stress: fatigue, emotional stress, headaches, and behaviors. All of this can easily be found on the Internet. Yet what I want to focus on is the positive stresses that we have: when we love what we are doing. For example, I love working and I can easily work 15 hours a day. Working makes me energized, yet that does not mean that my body does not interpret it as stress. These things add up as well. You have to focus on the positive as well as the negative. The positive stress is something that you have to do. So we have to understand what we are doing on the negative side. What stress are we putting on our body that we can get rid of? The more you can get rid of these stressors, the better your body will perform. That’s the key. Can you get rid of what’s stressing you out? Are you willing to get rid of it? So many people want to change, but aren’t willing to change. When you are training, you have to do this in a balanced state: mentally, emotionally, and physically. This is all about balancing out the systems.

Keep up with what’s happening inside your body. If you can clean up in 20 minutes, instead get your body to calm down by sitting in a quiet room reading or relaxing for those 20 minutes. These things are going to bring your stress level down. This gives your body more energy to heal, so you can start going through your positive stressors more, instead of your negative stressors. Try doing something that is physically relaxing. While in pain, your body is going through more stressors than relaxing situations yet your body heals in that relaxation state. If you are in pain, I guarantee you are not doing enough on that relaxing side of the spectrum. That’s how simple it is. If you like this tip, please share it with others. If you are not part of the newsletter group, please email me to join the list and be part of the family. Until next time! Bye.