Whole Body Movement Senses as part of Healing Body and Mind
Some kinds of back pain are part of a long struggle with pain, pain management, partially successful interventions, or even worse, efforts of some kind that leave your condition even more painful. Back pain has many forms, but often there comes a time in dealing with chronic spine joint/disk/ facet/ and nerve health, that you recognize you’ll never be completely free of the challenges.
When dealing with a chronic back pain condition, one of the exercise/movement goals is to take the comfort ranges you do have, and build up activity tolerances from there.
Many people struggle to actually do their recommended exercise programs. Or they might be more inclined to incorporate activity into walking routines and other recreational pursuits. The challenge is trying to keep your capacity up while you yo-yo up and down with flare-ups.
Some ideas for you are to find ways to cross train your upright spine actions. For example: walking on grassy or deep grass surfaces will increase your muscle work out. Walking on slight hills, or steeper terrain also works the stomach and back muscle co-ordination.
It’s really important for you to feel your body’s motion if you have chronic pain. The more dis-attuned you become to yourself, the more entrenched your pain patterns will become.
You want to try to engage the Mind’s deep awareness of the activity of the body. We’re such a thinking society, that we’ve forgotten to focus ourselves on detailed awareness of our parts moving. We may not see this as important, or we never developed our sense of this, or some trauma stress will numb us out so much that this sense is radically altered and muted.
See if you can feel the presence and movements of all limbs and your torso all at once. Re-familiarize yourself with your whole self in action. Once upon a time along time ago when you were a kid, that’s likely how you lived connected into the physical feelings of yourself playing.
If you can’t feel all of yourself at once, start with your easiest part and gradually practice adding on.
