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Is your bad back so painful you can’t even get dressed? Then here’s how to get a permanently healthy back

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Recognise this scenario? This is what happens when you go for treatment for your bad 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:–

  1. Realise that the real problem is your habit of moving stiffly.
  2. Find out what you’re doing wrong.
  3. Learn how to stop doing it.

step oneStep 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 twoStep 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 threeStep 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

This is what happens if you use 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?

  1. There are over 60 in-depth articles for you here in the free articles section.
  2. 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.
  3. 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:–
    1. The real reason why Semi-Supine is so important
    2. Detailed instructions on how to do Semi-Supine
    3. How to persuade your boss to beg you to take more rests at work

Conclusion: a personal note

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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,

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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.

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You also get “The Hows & Whys of Semi-Supine”

This free 23-page booklet is indispensable to anyone serious about strengthening their bad back

Book image. “The Hows & Whys of Semi-Supine” by Philip Pawley. Including: The little-understood real reason why Semi-Supine is so important - Detailed instructions on how and when to lie down - Persuade your boss to beg you to take rests at work.
Medical Proof

Medical Study proves lasting effectiveness of the Alexander Technique for low back pain.

Published in the prestigious British Medical Journal on 19 August 2008, this randomised controlled medical trial compares Alexander Technique lessons, exercise and massage for chronic and recurrent back pain.

British Medical Journal video on the Alexander TechniqueBritish Medical Journal video

Clients’ Stories
Jean kept falling over after a hip replacement
Lady with a Hip Replacement

“My teacher is Philip Pawley and I can thoroughly recommend him: he’s patient, kind and knows what he’s doing. He’s given me a new life.”

Rob is a yoga teacher
Yoga Teacher

“My interest in the Technique came from my interest in yoga. At the time when I heard about it, I thought that this would be a useful thing for me to learn — just a development of what I understood yoga to be.”

Margery was disabled by osteoporosis
Lady with Osteoporosis

“Since starting with the Alexander Technique, it has boosted my confidence tremendously. It does so much more besides just helping you with the osteoporosis.”

Caroline is an opera singer
Opera Singer

“I have got enormous benefit out of a series of thirty-minute sessions with Philip Pawley. My whole stance has improved and I’m singing better.”

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