Kissing Low Back Pain Goodbye
Movement is essential to treat, heal, and prevent low back pain. I want to introduce you to my friend, Lisa Huck. Lisa is a Functional Movement Fitness expert, she lives in LA, California. Lisa's YouTube video explains the anatomy of the low back and essential information about movement and low back pain.
Here is an article from Mercola.com that talks about back pain, movement, and exercise: http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2014/01/31/back-pain-exercise.aspx. If the article seems blank, be not fooled, scroll down and it is there! It is the 2nd video in the article. Lisa huck is a gifted functional movement exercise therapist in California.
This is the above mentioned video. The first 14 minutes gives amazing anatomy & physiology healthy and pained back issues. Go directly to minute #14 and you will see the simple, easy to do, and takes maybe 4 minutes low back relief exercises. They work!
Posture:
Good posture is essential for ridding and preventing back pain. Most people's body alignment, posture, is way off course. Pay attention when you sit and stand. Does your body feel comfortable, natural, bones stacked above bones where they are meant to be.
Some of you may be saying, "What? How am I supposed to know where my bones are supposed to be stacked? I am not an anatomy expert."
To which I will reply, "All wisdom about your body is inherent within you. We have ignored this wisdom for so long that we no longer can find the information, readily, in our heads. We need to look deep into our heart and spirit and the information is there."
Call it up - this wisdom, bring it back into your life. It will help you to heal in so many ways.
When you sit:
Lift your hips up slightly so that your hips are higher than your thighs. This will create a downward slant to your thighs (if you put a wooden dowel on your thighs it would slowly roll down your thighs and off your knees).
Chin up
Lift you heart towards the sky. This simple positional change will pull up your whole body carriage (your skeletal structure) into proper alignment.
Check out the seat in your car. Does the back of the seat (where your butt sits) incline or decline? 99% (my guestimate) of car seats have a decline here. Your butt sinks down in and makes the slant of your thighs run opposite to proper posture alignment.
Easy fix here: put a towel roll in this dent in the seat space so your butt is lifted up higher than your thighs. This single action, on your part, will do wonders for your back on the daily drives.
Spend much time sitting at work? Lift your butt up on this chair as well. (Get up and move every 30 minutes or so. Moving the body helps prevent back pain from sitting, sitting, sitting all day.)
Standing:
Again, lift your chin and lift your heart towards the sky. Feel how your whole spinal column moves into correct alignment, how your whole skeletal alignment changes for the better?
Heels: your heels function best when just slightly lower than the rest of your feet. (Yes, ladies who wear high heels, this does not bode well for the fashion statement!) This is why Anne Kalsø designed the Kalso Earth shoe:
Anne Kalsø 's passion for yoga led her to study in Switzerland and eventually in Santos, Brazil. It was there, in 1957, that she observed the excellent posture of indigenous Brazilians, and the impressions left by their bare footprints as they walked through beach sand. She observed that the footprints laid were deeper in the heels than in the toes. This natural body position resonated with the thoughtful Kalsø. It echoed a formative yoga pose she knew well – Tadasana (the 'Mountain' pose).
As she herself emulated the pose of the native Brazilians, she noticed how her own posture improved, and how her breathing passages opened. She was inspired.
From: http://www.earthbrands.com/kalsoearthshoe/kalso-the-kalso-story
Lifestyle: This is where I say what I always say. No, do not click the x and close me out... listen people, I am trying to help, support, and love you! : )
Your lifestyle is not independent of your aches and pains, health challenges, disease symptoms, and illnesses. If your body is not nourished well with whole foods, your cellular health suffers, you will feel pain eventually from weakened body systems. A wellness lifestyle makes all the difference!
Making changes in your life, choosing whole health lifestyle choices, heals the body. Check out the free health info pages on my web site. http://www.paulayoumellrn.com/free-health-info/
Get moving & eating whole foods, get rid of back pain! Tell me your back pain healing story in the comments section. Do you use chiropractic care? Acupuncture? Massage?
Bye Bye Back Pain (cont.): this is the next part of Kissing Back Pain Goodbye
PS Check out my YouTube video on defining holistic health & healing.
Healing Health House Parties
What better space to learn health and healing and start the process of taking responsibility for your health back into your own hands... in your own home!
Gather like minded family and friends and invite me over. Together we create a Health and Healing Home Party to fit your group's unique needs.
It is as easy as that!
Workshop Topics: (Feel free to create your own ideas and we will put together an inspiring, learning experience!)
- Healing with Whole Foods: What is whole food, why eat it, how to make changes in your life including the why's of eating seasonally and locally, and how eating whole foods will heal your body from the cellular level. This workshop is the launch point for all work on healing. I suggest starting here.
- Natural Foods Know How: An information session on how to know what foods really are natural and not just marketing. Real food not food hype.
- Healthy Menu Prep: How to prep healthy meals for the week, how to shop for healthy foods. Shopping and eating seasonally and locally.
- Healing with Herbs: Common herbs for simple healing at home, antimicrobial use, herbal preparations, adding nourishment to your lifestyle.
- Herbal Preparation: A more in depth and hands on class in making several types of herbal preparations based upon the individual or group’s desire to learn.
- Gluten Free Eating & Loving It: Many people find that they are unable to tolerate the proteins found in gluten-containing grains. We’ll discuss the basics of the gluten free diet, how to do it in a healthy and easy manner, how to avoid hidden gluten and cross contamination, and cleaning out the kitchen of gluten products and flours.
- Facial Rejuvenation: Anti-aging based around whole foods, high mineral herbs, lotion, essential oils, and facial energy work.
- Detox Nourishment Diets: What they are, why they work, how to implement simple and more involved nourishing detoxes.
- Divine Weight Loss: Accessing your divine inner self to get past the "stuck" points and heal around food and weight issues.
- Gut Health: What creates and destroys healthy gut micro-organisms, how to optimize diet and lifestyle for top notch gut and whole body health.
- The Benefits of Exercise: Exercise provides multiple benefits. Learn how simple, every day movement can increase your vibrant energy and healing in every body system, right down to the cellular level!
- Proteins, Carbs & Fats: What they all are, why we need them, and where to get them (healthiest food choices).
- Give Sugar the BUTT Kick!: What sugar is, forms of sugars, why so addicting, how sugar is damaging to body, how to butt kick sugar out of your life, ways to add “sweetness” to your life without adding sugar.
- Perfecting Posture for Pain Free Motion: Why, how, when…. In everything we do sitting / standing / mowing /vacuuming / etc. Yoga poses to enhance posture, open space between vertebrae, proper bending.
- Maternal Child Nutrition and Health: My years of Maternity Nursing experience shine here as we talk about how to best holistically care for mom and babe during pregnancy and beyond.
- Healing the Feminine Divine: Holistic health from the Wise Women’s perspective around menarche, infertility, fertility, birth control, menstrual products, female sexuality, pregnancy, breast feeding, peri–menopause, and menopause - "the Wise Women Crone". Workshops are created for the unique needs of the group around these feminine divine topics.
- Reiki Energy Healing: Reiki Certification Classes: Level 1, 2 & 3
- Chi - Life Force Energy Healing Learn about the chakras, meridians, and life force energy in your body. Learn how to access the energy through yoga, acupressure, massage, reiki, and other forms of body work – energy healing techniques to prevent and heal disease.