Becoming A Pain Detective

Finding out why you suffer is your job.

You are the detective - you have to be.

Because no-one else cares much – maybe loved ones care, but even they quickly tire of you telling them all the time. Pain news is unwelcome news - no-one wants to hear too much of it.

Especially when they feel powerless to help you.

It is your job, and you can seek help. But before you seek help, it's essential that you understand one thing:

Pain is not what is wrong with you!

If you suffer from neck pain or back pain – i.e. postural pain - that is a good thing, not a bad thing. If you suffer emotionally, it is good. Why? Because…

Pain is evidence for your detective mind.

Because pain – physically and emotionally - is innocent of any crime. It is the evidence, not the act. The act is hidden, unknown, lurking in some unconscious realm, waiting to be discovered…

Your pain is like a red light flashing in a car – it’s design is to wake you up. 

Pain is the messenger, not the culprit. 

And you – the person who feels the pain – you are the detective.

Yes, to understand your pain you need to become a pain detective. Because your pain has a cause, it doesn't just appear randomly to annoy you; it appears deliberately to warn you.

Pain is telling you that you are trying to do something with your Self (body) that you are not designed to do. Just like driving a car with the hand brake on – you can do it, but the car is not designed to be driven that way. Soon a red light will start flashing telling you:

"You've still got the handbrake on silly!"

Of course, our system doesn't have any red lights to flash. Instead, you get pain. Postural pain is entirely caused by misusing your design; emotional pain is entirely caused by confusion in your thinking.

And both begin together - in the way your head and spine cooperate as you walk, talk, play music, exercise or do anything at all. At your lessons, students will come to study their everyday movements, and you must train them to become a movement detectives.

Tell them this…
To learn how to analyse, experiment and finally figure out what postural movements you need to change to stop feeling postural pain all the time. When your body is pain-free, life gets much more comfortable to live…

You feel more willing to get up and go to work. You can concentrate on your work and get it finished faster. You are in a better mood to deal with your boss and fellow workers – suddenly, they don't seem so bad after all. 

They smile more – because you are smiling more.

These are all benefits that can come from the relief of head and neck pain - and other postural pains. This is what we do with Alexander's discovery and next month I have a coaching opportunity opening up – to hone your ability to uncover the evidence…