Is your bad back so painful you can’t even get dressed? Then here’s how to get a permanently healthy back
Remember the first time it happened? After a long struggle you finally managed to get your clothes on. You had to lift your legs with your hands to get into the car. When you got into work, keeping going was tough. When you got back home all you could do was collapse on your bed and groan.
Still groaning, you went to the chiropractor and she sorted you out
…until the next time.
Was the next time easier? Probably not. Maybe you didn’t even make it into work, you had to wait for the chiropractor’s next appointment and crawl into her office. Again, she fixed it. Wonderful woman. What would you do without her?
…until the next time.
How long did it take to go wrong again? Was it not so bad this time? I don’t think so.
If only there were a way for your back to stay right
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could discover how to get your back better than it was before it went wrong? Perfect, if you could then rely on it to stay that way.
Why doesn’t it happen?
Why your back doesn’t stay right
Right now, your back doesn’t stay right because you keep doing the thing that puts it out.
Let me give you an example.
If, driving your car, you always ground your gears, you’d soon have to replace your gear-box. If you kept grinding your gears you’d have to keep going back for new gear-boxes. The real solution is to stop grinding your gears.
The same principle applies to your bad back: if you keep moving stiffly, you’ll keep putting your back out — no matter how many times you get somebody to fix it for you. The real solution is to stop moving stiffly.
How do you stop moving stiffly? There are three steps.
The three steps to a back that stays better:–
- Realise that the real problem is your habit of moving stiffly.
- Find out what you’re doing wrong.
- Learn how to stop doing it.
Step 1
Do you see that the real problem is your habit of moving stiffly?
If not, go back and re-read what I said about grinding your gears. If you’re not sure it applies to you, go to the form at the bottom of the page and tell me what you’re not sure about. I’ll help you resolve those doubts for free.
If you’ve taken that first step, you can continue to the second and third steps.
Step 2
Find out what you’re doing wrong.
An Alexander Technique teacher can show show you what you’re doing wrong in just one lesson.
For example, some people discover that their effort to stay upright is actually throwing them off balance. Rather than find their true balance, they’ve got used to stiffening to avoid falling over. Eventually, all that stiffening becomes too much for their back.
Step 3
Learn how to stop doing it.
Once you’ve discovered what you’re doing wrong, your Alexander Technique teacher shows you how to put it right. You learn a better way to approach your problem: a way that actually works. As a result, you become able to do much more with much less effort. You stop having to move carefully to save your back.
Once you go through these three steps, you become able to do whatever you want without getting back trouble. You can do whatever you want without fear of damaging yourself. You can finally leave your problem behind.
But there’s a catch
And the catch? While you’re learning how to stop using your bad old way of doing things, you’ll often think and feel that your new way is wrong. That feeling will make you keep going back to the old way, to the way you know and are familiar with.
How do we deal with this catch?
Alexander teachers know all about this catch. They constantly steer you back in the right direction. Often, though, it’s really difficult to see what it is you’re thinking — what’s holding you back, stuck with doing the wrong thing. It can take a long time to get it and sometimes people never really do get it.
Not getting it, they never make the fundamental shift needed to get fully better.
Introducing The Smiling Back Method
The Smiling Back Method is the product of my nearly 30 years’ experience as an Alexander Technique teacher. That’s nearly 30 years of discovering what holds people back and prevents them from really getting it. My teaching goes right to the core. Here at The Smiling Back Method, I provide a sure path to getting better than you were before you weren’t.
Does that tell you enough to rush into a course of lessons? Probably not. How can you know I’m not talking through the back of my head?
You can’t. You need more information, more understanding.
That information is right here waiting for you in my article library. My free article library contains an absolute mine of information. You’ll find over 60 in-depth articles carefully organised into subjects. Browse through and read one or two now. Bookmark the rest for later.
Then there’s “Back in Action”
“Back in Action”
“Back in Action” delivers the Smiling Back Method’s weekly article. Each issue contains a totally new in-depth article. Every one of those articles will give you more of an insight into some aspect of your back problem. Not only that, they will also help you learn how to permanently get rid of your back problem.
The Smiling Back Method is my own personal combination of the well-respected, medically proven Alexander Technique and the insight I’ve gained through nearly 30 years of helping people like you with back pain and other kinds of muscle and joint pain. While helping you with the pain, I also help with the posture problems that go with the pain.
How much free help can you get?
- There are over 60 in-depth articles for you here in the free articles section.
- There’s also a new article coming out every week and you can get that too if you subscribe to “Back in Action”, which is also free.
- When you subscribe, you get this indispensable 23-page booklet: “The Hows and Whys of Semi-Supine”.
Here are some of the things you learn in the booklet:–- The real reason why Semi-Supine is so important
- Detailed instructions on how to do Semi-Supine
- How to persuade your boss to beg you to take more rests at work
See what other people have found
Click their name to see how the Smiling Back Method has helped each person
Conclusion: a personal note
Philip Pawley
Dear Reader,
Is your life worth a small investment so you can be fit and healthy? So you can enjoy your work, leisure and future retirement? Or do you want to languish in pain and gradually descend into ever-increasing infirmity?
You owe it to yourself to look after yourself. Here, now, is your chance to change the way you’ve been doing things forever. Think how pleased your family will be when they see your old self back again.
So look for an article that answers your question. (Don’t forget to bookmark this page).
If you don’t find an answer to your question, send me your question by email
All the best,
Philip Pawley
Back Magician
PS. Here are those free articles.
PPS. I also have some videos available to help you.
PPPS. Soon there will be a book too. It’s due out on the 1st of December 2010.
Questions?
If you have any questions, please email me and let me know where you need help. If I can help, I will. Whatever you write is completely confidential.
(I’d also be very interested to hear your feedback.)
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