| If you live with back pain, you are not alone. According | | | | emotionally, which usually translates to profound |
| to the National Institute of Health (NIH) "nearly | | | | physical relief as well." |
| everyone at some point has back pain that interferes | | | | YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE |
| with work, routine daily activities, or recreation". | | | | Later I read Louise Hay's "You Can Heal Your Life." |
| Over twenty five years ago I strained my back while | | | | This book offers a list of maladies with their probable |
| moving a piano up a staircase in student housing at the | | | | causes and a recommended new thought pattern |
| University of Utah in Salt Lake City where I was | | | | For "lower back problems" it offers as the probable |
| attending law school. | | | | cause: "Fear of money. Lack of financial support." The |
| The pain persisted and finally, many years later, I | | | | recommended new thought pattern is "I trust the |
| sought the help of Dr. Clyde Keller, my first | | | | process of life. All I need is always taken care of. I am |
| chiropractor. | | | | safe." |
| Dr. Keller's adjustments gave me a lot of relief. | | | | Repeating the new thought pattern provided relief not |
| Still the pain returned periodically and so I returned to | | | | just for pain in my lower back but also for any feeling |
| see Dr. Keller. | | | | of discomfort or tension in that area. |
| STRESS AND LOW BACK PAIN | | | | Another principle I learned from Hay's book is that we |
| As time passed I began to see that pain in my back | | | | don't let go of a problem until we let go of the need for |
| and neck coincided with times of high stress in my | | | | that problem. And that applies to illness. So, I began to |
| career as a personal injury attorney. When I realized | | | | use an additional new thought pattern or affirmation in |
| that stress was a factor and worked to reduce my | | | | relation to my low back pain: "I am willing to release the |
| stress levels my visits to the chiropractor become less | | | | need for low back pain." |
| frequent. | | | | Try out this simple process in area of your life. You will |
| This was my first introduction to the relationship | | | | find that releasing the need for the problem will go a |
| between feelings and physical malaise and pain. | | | | long way toward resolving it. |
| SEDONA METHOD | | | | EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE |
| About three years ago I was introduced to the | | | | Recently I was introduced to the emotional freedom |
| Sedona Method which is a tool that teaches you how | | | | technique (EFT). This method uses tapping on specific |
| to release negative emotions, including those | | | | areas of the body to release negative emotional |
| associated with physical pain. I began exploring and | | | | energy. |
| releasing years of accumulated negative emotion. In | | | | Though it sounded bizarre I tried it and found it to be |
| law school we were taught to work with our intellects | | | | very powerful. It even released energy or charge that |
| and so, years after law school, I found myself virtually | | | | did not release with the other methods. |
| numb with repressed emotions. | | | | You can download a free guide to EFT at "The World |
| The feelings came off in layers. I peeled them off one | | | | Center For EFT". There you can also find a list of |
| by one like the layers of an onion. Little by little I felt | | | | practitioners. |
| more alive. | | | | The best overall guide to the subject of EFT is |
| "Most chronic back pain has a strong emotional | | | | "Getting Through to Your Emotions" by Phillip and Jane |
| component," says Hale Dwoskin author of the Sedona | | | | Mountrose. |
| Method. | | | | CONCLUSION |
| "When you release the stress and tension that is either | | | | Try these methods. Hopefully, releasing negative |
| causing your back pain or simply magnifying it, even | | | | feelings will lead your to better health and a pain free |
| long-standing pain in your back can easily dissolve," | | | | back. |
| Dwoskin says. "Either way you will feel a lot better | | | | |