MFR: Healing Your Own Pain: Recent Episodes
Greg
In our healing journey we have all searched for, and found, various wizards with an assortment of elixers to eliminate our pain. And yet, after many therapies, meds, surgeries, even replacement parts, our pain persists. What if you've had the power to heal yourself all along. Find out how.
There is only one way to heal anyhing that happens in the body, be it physical or emotional. Let me remind you.
When we are touched where we are vulnerable, we remember who we are, where we are, maybe even, why we are. And we are healed.
What if pain is a love letter from your body calling you home. Aren't you tired of running? When we finally make the U-turn home, we are half way to healing.
What if pain isn't what you thought is was. What if it's the X on the treasure map of your body, telling you where the gold is buried. Listen to find out.
The best medicine for pain is absolutely free! What's more, you may not know you already own it. When you realize this, your life will change.
There is a simple, powerful method to healing that goes way beyond most bodywork offered today that you rarely hear about. Find out the secret of healing!
The stories we tell about ourselves, those we watch, hear, and are drawn to, are not the litany of our greatest hits. They are about the painful events in our lives we survived and grew from. While we don't seek them out, we know they are the stuff that makes us!
There's a magic healing power in all of us that works. We've been giving it away our whole lives. Listen to find out what it is - and how to get it back!
Underneath all our efforts to get healthy, can lurk a shadowy part of us that doesn't believe we should be. It can affect not just our health, but every phase of our lives!
Real Life vs Virtual Life
“Our bodies know they belong to Life, to Spirit. It’s our minds that make us homeless.”
- John O’Donahue
Hello everyone, and welcome to a new episode of Healing Your Own Pain. Today’s podcast is called: Real Life vs Virtual Life. My name is Greg, I’m an expert level MFR therapist and owner of Glen Ellyn Myofascial Release, an in-person and on-line treatment center for pain relief, injury rehabilitation and physical and emotional healing.
If you google “virtual reality” one definition you’ll find is: a complete immersion experience that shuts out the physical world, or “a simulation or imitation of real life” or “not reality in fact”, “having no physical reality.” Or as we like to say in MFR: living outside the body.
Real Life = In The Body Virtual Life = Out-of-Body
So, in the new global reality, virtual living, including: work, education, medicine, social gatherings, family reunions, even dating has become more and more, an on-line or virtual experience, or un-real experience.
Some years ago, a common spiritual or meditative goal was to achieve an out-of-body experience. What I’ve come to know through my own practice and those of my patients is virtually everyone is already living an out-of-body life and are unaware of it. By the time most of us have reached adulthood we’ve had a number of physical, medical, or emotional traumas that caused us to leave the body as an unconscious self-protective reaction. We may feel numbness or tingling in some part of the body, or have soft tissue restrictions, tightness, disuse, over or underuse of muscles, and pain. We’ve become as disconnected from our bodies as we are from the earth.
In order to heal anything, we must first come back to the body. There is no healing outside the body. We must feel to heal. There are three steps to healing. First, re-connect with the body. Second feel and release the physical and the emotional restriction. Third, rehabilitate using only the correct posture or muscles that have been compensated for, or misused due to injury or poor habits.
Ok, so what does it actually mean, to reconnect, or come back to the body. What I mean is to actually drop your locus, or center of gravity from the head, from thinking into the body’s interior. Many body-centered meditations direct you to feel your feet on the floor, the chair you’re sitting on etc. and that’s a good start. Next is to feel beneath the skin, to the interi
Your body stores everything that's happened to you. To finish healing we must unearth its secrets.
Locked inside your chronic pain is an old emotional trauma holding it in place. When you learn to soften into the discomfort, a window opens and the opportunity to feel and finally release the trapped emotion can feel like getting out of prison.
If you struggle with pain, have taken meds, seen health professionals and are told you just have to live with it, there is an alternative. A drug-free, surgery-free way to start relieving your pain at home through myofascial release (MFR) telehealth. Find freedom from physical and emotional trauma through in-home treatment and rehab from an expert-level MFR therapist.