Determining
for yourself whether you’re ready to stretch should help embed in your brain
the idea that you can learn to read your body. Your body tells you a
lot, as in the sign noted previously of feeling more energetic when you wake up
in the morning. People tend to rely too much on high-tech diagnostic tests. If
I feel lousy, I know I’m not well. I don’t need a doctor to
tell me
this. By the same token, you know when you’re feeling better—you just
need to pay attention.
All the
technology we live with has disconnected us from our physical being. We’ve
forgotten that nature’s profound intelligence gave us our body—it’s not simply
another machine to be manipulated by technology— and we’ve lost the ability to
communicate with it. Most people are so disconnected from their bodies that
they actually have no clue when their problems are improving—like Diane, who
was so focused on her hip pain that she completely forgot that her knee and
back pain was totally gone and only remembered when I questioned her. As if she
couldn’t believe that complete relief was possible, she didn’t perceive it when
it actually happened. If you’re one of these disconnected types—or suspect you
may be—rely on a mate, loved one, or close friend, who most likely can detect
changes more accurately than you can yourself.
The moral
is you must maintain an open mind. If you find yourself feeling better, accept
it—don’t fight it. For me, the best patient is an optimistic person who wants
to get better and remains hopeful. A neutral patient is OK, too. This person
says, “I’m skeptical, but I’ll listen to your argument and give it a try.” The
worst patient is the one who just won’t believe that getting better is
possible—even when the pain decreases. This person has been brainwashed to
believe that the only way to fix problems is with drugs and surgery. If you’ve
been entertaining such thoughts, try to put them aside just for these ten days.
Write down your before-and-after observations as I suggested earlier. If at the
end of ten days you find yourself feeling better, you’ll have your own evidence
that the conventional medical model doesn’t have all the answers.
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