{"id":757,"date":"2011-09-27T05:17:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T00:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2011-09-27T05:19:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T00:19:11","slug":"you-are-not-powerless-when-it-comes-to-your-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/archives\/757","title":{"rendered":"You Can Undo the Conditioning That&#8217;s Causing Your Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could it really be true that any chronic pain you have isn&#8217;t the<br \/>\nresult of damage, but instead is the result of conditioning&#8211;even<br \/>\nif it *looks* like damage according to medical imaging and tests?<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that the conditioning *preceded* the &#8220;damage?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that if you can break the conditioning, the &#8220;damage&#8221;<br \/>\ndisappears???<\/p>\n<p>In my experience, yes.<\/p>\n<p>The human body has a remarkable ability to heal quickly from<br \/>\nanything. If yours isn&#8217;t acting so resilient, what&#8217;s going on?<\/p>\n<p>Consider this possibility:<\/p>\n<p>Most of us have developed useful strategies to avoid feeling<br \/>\nuncomfortable emotions, because we were shamed as we grew up for<br \/>\nbeing &#8220;crybabies&#8221; or something similar. In most cultures it just<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t acceptable for &#8220;mature&#8221; adults to display much emotion. <\/p>\n<p>Was showing emotion as you grew up viewed as a sign of immaturity<br \/>\nor weakness? It might have led to being teased, scorned, or<br \/>\nworse.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, physical injury or illness would have been<br \/>\ntaken &#8220;seriously.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Because most cultures don&#8217;t hold us responsible for our illness<br \/>\nor injury, we get attention, sympathy, time off work, medicine,<br \/>\nand other special treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, it&#8217;s much more socially acceptable to talk about<br \/>\nyour physical pain than your emotional pain. It fits the cultural<br \/>\ntendency to blame something outside oneself for one&#8217;s physical<br \/>\nproblems.<\/p>\n<p>The downside of this tendency is that it creates the belief in<br \/>\npowerlessness in the realm of the body.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty depressing, in my humble opinion. AND, completely<br \/>\nunnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>You are NOT powerless when it comes to your body.<\/p>\n<p>But, you may have been conditioned to believe that you are. <\/p>\n<p>The result?<\/p>\n<p>   Pain&#8211;or some other unwanted physical<br \/>\n   manifestation.<\/p>\n<p>The result of feeling that your emotions are unacceptable?<\/p>\n<p>   Pain&#8211;or some other unwanted physical<br \/>\n   manifestation.<\/p>\n<p>The result of believing that *you* are somehow unacceptable, that<br \/>\nyou can&#8217;t get what you want or need?<\/p>\n<p>   Pain&#8211;or some other unwanted physical<br \/>\n   manifestation.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the most efficient tool I&#8217;ve found for breaking the<br \/>\npatterns that hold us in our suffering&#8211;both physical and<br \/>\nmental&#8211;is tapping.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of how it works:<\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;We had great success with last night&#8217;s tapping.<br \/>\n   While my husband, Larry, was tapping he had a<br \/>\n   lot pain in his right knee. It went away after<br \/>\n   tapping, but then his left knee started burning.<\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;So, we paused the audio and kept tapping, one<br \/>\n   more time and guess what? That pain left too!!<br \/>\n   He realized that all of these years he had been<br \/>\n   holding his tension in his lower legs! Then we<br \/>\n   realized that, that is where his family (Mom<br \/>\n   &#038; Dad) always ALWAYS complained of pain.<\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;They ran a restaurant and always blamed the hours<br \/>\n   they stood on concrete for everything. We realized<br \/>\n   that this is where Larry probably picked up the<br \/>\n   same complaint. Anyway, what an eye opener!! We<br \/>\n   LOVE this tapping and are already sharing it with<br \/>\n   our friends. Thanks again!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     -Judy Gardner<\/p>\n<p>Larry had been conditioned to hold tension in his body in a way<br \/>\nthat created pain. Amazingly, all it took was tapping to break<br \/>\nthe cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Can it work for something involving real damage with evidence on<br \/>\nan MRI? <\/p>\n<p>Read this:<\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;I am a 50 yrs old, single and working mom, boys<br \/>\n   and a girl grown up now; Last year, I often wasn\u2019t<br \/>\n   able to get upstairs into my bedroom, sometimes i<br \/>\n   crawled, pulling myself up the stairs. crying,<br \/>\n   praying- stubborn me. I tried to dig my car out<br \/>\n   after snowfall with a hand shovel- thats all I<br \/>\n   could lift.<\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;Car rides further than 15 min hurting soo much. I<br \/>\n   was reading, learning, applying all to become well<br \/>\n   again. I stumbled somehow across you and the<br \/>\n   tapping summit. I have learned so much!<\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;Seriously, I am pain free- not taking any meds<br \/>\n   (and it&#8217;s not a condition that disapears overnight<br \/>\n   &#8211;MRI reports)<\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;Since listening and tapping, I have even began<br \/>\n   workout exercises to strengthen my muscles even<br \/>\n   better, I can go upstairs and downstairs without<br \/>\n   dragging my *bad* knee behind. no more crawling!<\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;I have told Pud (87) about this and promised i<br \/>\n   will teach him to do the tapping too.<\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;Hey, can you believe, I\u2019m even able to push the<br \/>\n   snow off my deck and steps with the big snow shovel<br \/>\n   now!!!! Little by little, my strength is coming<br \/>\n   back. My life is transforming and I feel it more<br \/>\n   every day. All due to your wonderful tapping<br \/>\n   course.<\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;THANK YOU SO MUCH!<\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;I could give you two hugs and more hugs you cannot<br \/>\n   imagine what that means to me one of my grandbabies<br \/>\n   is *only* 1 hr away. Now I don\u2019t hurt when I drive<br \/>\n   there, and I can even pick her up and snuggle with<br \/>\n   her! cheers&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>     -Gudrun Johanna<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a chance for YOU to get a big dose of help with tapping<br \/>\nfor relieving pain in your body, at no charge:<\/p>\n<p> -> http:\/\/www.scienceofbeingwell.net\/painrelief<\/p>\n<p>This live online event begins Monday, October 3. Will you join me<br \/>\nthere?<\/p>\n<p>Warmly,<br \/>\nDr. Alexandra Gayek<\/p>\n<p>P.S. If you&#8217;ve ever participated in one of the free &#8220;Tapping<br \/>\nWorld Summits,&#8221; you know how exciting and packed with value these<br \/>\nevents are.<\/p>\n<p> -> http:\/\/www.scienceofbeingwell.net\/painrelief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could it really be true that any chronic pain you have isn&#8217;t the result of damage, but instead is the result of conditioning&#8211;even if it *looks* like damage according to medical imaging and tests? Could it be that the conditioning *preceded* the &#8220;damage?&#8221; Could it be that if you can break the conditioning, the &#8220;damage&#8221;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/archives\/757\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You Can Undo the Conditioning That&#8217;s Causing Your Pain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,15],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pain","tag-tapping","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}