Back online
I have so much to blog about and I can’t remember any of it. Was having some computer issues for a couple of days there along with some personal issues with guess who and those things added up to no blog for me and no blog for you. Anyway, I’m home and it’s "fredag’s fika’ tomorrow at work-in other words, I am going to bring in some nice snack or treat of some sort and everyone is supposed to partake in it’s consumption whilst chatting and giggling amongst themselves in a friendly manner-given that it’s me though and that I’m going to bake or buy anything, we’ll see just how many partake in my fredag’s fika. I’m going to make some raw chocolate, I have not been very successful thus far.
Training is going real well. The back is better than it’s been in a long time. I’ve said this before: if you let the answers to your problems come to you, they will. They are waiting to come to you, they are begging! They came to me in two parts in regards to my back just recently. As hard as it is for me to do it, some kind of meditative focus is what it takes for me to open up-this focus is usually achieved in either total silence whereby I start by letting my mind wander where it may and let the doors gradually open that way or by doing something very repetitive. I don’t run, but you might have heard plenty of runners say that that is there time to think. Well, I think what really happens is that we all get into these mini-trances at times, or self hypnotize, and open ourselves up to a new level of understanding that is not particularly available to us on our regular wavelength-the running is very similar to several religion’s chanting rituals-it’s repititive and mind numbing, leaving you open to an answer outside of what you. I know that I often fall into brief(maybe 5-10min)trances when I’m very uncomfortable, when I’m at the ‘I can take anymore point.’-this is actually when it happens most often-I go into a very heightened focus and all of the sudden, the answers to my problems start hitting me on the side of the head as if they have been waiting months to get in there…they probably have.
Anyway, what I figured out with the back is that a big chink is my armour is the neck. Although I’ve rarely had any neck pain, I often(for the last several years) lay with my head propped up against the wall for several hours a day. I do this because I can’t sit. This puts my spine in a flexed position for much longer than it should be-no muscle should be stretched or contracted for hours on end, day after day-that’s called pattern overload. Then to top it off, I’ve got what exercise physiologists would call forward head as well-again flexion. So I started doing some cervical extension movements. Huge change, almost immediate. Second big revelation was that the majority of the discomfort I experience on a daily basis isn’t from a constantly buldging disc that slips in and out of position like it’s nobody’s business, but from muscular adhesions-specifically in the multifidi which kind of weave their way in and out of the vertebral column. So, I reached back there, while laying on my stomach, and started kneading those babies out and before you knew it, I was temporarily out of pain. Of course, the adhesions are there because of soft tissue damage due to an imbalance+excessive load+poor training technique, but that can be worked out now that I am more aware of what’s going on. I’ve even been sitting a lot lately without extreme discomfort-though it’s not exactly a day in the park.
Time for me to study a bit and then catch some Zsss. Talk to you soon.
