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This newsletter is about the emotional causes of back pain.
April 1, 2012
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How does this happen? The strength of each and every muscle in your body is partially controlled by the functioning of specific acupuncture energy pathways. Too much or too little energy in the right acupuncture pathway will cause the corresponding muscle to get stronger or weaker.
Centuries ago Chinese doctors charted the relationships between these acupuncture pathways and various internal organs. Many relationships to tender areas in specific muscles were also noted. At the same time they also noted that imbalances in specific pathways were associated with characteristic emotional imbalances.
Over my years of study and research I have come to understand that these acupuncture pathways (meridians) are the communication lines from the emotional part of the brain to the muscles in the same way that nerves are the communication pathway from the conscious volitional part of the higher brain to the same muscles. Nerves tell the muscles to contract to produce movement while the meridians tell the muscles to be tighter or looser to produce postural changes for communicating how we feel to others.
Most back pain comes from imbalances in the muscles. The most common is too much laxity in the spinal muscles and too much tension in the muscles in the front of the body. A couple weeks ago I mentioned using the exercises in the book "Foundation Training" to rebuild the strength in the spinal muscles as most of us simply have weak back muscles from too much sitting. Get a copy here.
Muscle balance is commonly the cause of joint pain in any movable joint in the body. Here is the key: emotional imbalance creates muscle imbalance, which in turn creates pain and dysfunction. When the muscles are out of balance, the joints move improperly, causing joint pinching, damage, and inflammation.
When I say emotional imbalance, what do I mean? In a word - FEAR, which to me means Failure to Engage and Accept Relationship. The human experience of life is all about our relationship to everything. If we fail to accept life as it is and create an engaging positive relationship with it, we will end up afraid and separate from life. This creates tension and muscle imbalance in our body, and results in pain.
The number of ways we can fail to accept and engage life is endless. Depending on the skills we have developed, our ability to connect varies tremendously. Each acupuncture meridian pathway can be thought of as the expression of specific virtues and emotional character skills. The pathways that are strong because we have the positive character traits and life skills associated with that path will send good strong messages to the specific muscles that path goes to. Those muscles will work balanced and well.
Where we don't have the emotional life skills necessary to stay positive and balanced, the corresponding meridians will send garbled messages to its muscles and they will express unbalanced actions producing tension and pain.
Classic examples I find daily in my practice are such things as neck/shoulder tension patients feel while at work but not at home. The muscles involved are the trapezius, levator scapulae, and neck flexors. These muscles are related to the stomach/spleen meridians, which are about our feelings of self-esteem and connectedness.
Some areas of the back have so many different layers of muscle involved that many emotional imbalances can express themselves there. A good example is the low back. The most common emotional issues associated with the low back are fear and inability to let go.
In the process of adjusting a patient I find many of these imbalances and I make temporary corrections to rebalance the muscles. Sometimes I even work on the brain connections to shift the stuck emotional patterns. But ultimately healing the chronic pain patterns require the person to build better skills for relating to life. In general terms, that means shifting from negative ego patterns of relationship to positive ego relationships.
Our ego is our identity of separation from life. It is our perception of being an individual self, distinct from others. We are born with a very weak sense of self that has a very limited view of reality with itself as the center of everything. Everything is seen as an extension of us and exists only to serve us. This viewpoint creates hoards of false beliefs, expectations, and behaviors that are the essence of our negative ego. Growing up is the process of swapping out the false beliefs, expectations, and behaviors with positive and virtuous beliefs, expectations, and skilled behaviors.
This is exactly what is needed to heal the body as well as the mind. Today I focused on muscle and joint pain consequences to emotional imbalances caused by negative ego functioning. But those meridian pathways also go to all our organs and glands. Emotions are directly connected to our health in every part of our body.
How do we do this? That is a huge subject and one best pursued with the guidance of someone who is able to read the messages your body is telling you to help you navigate your personal path to healing and growth. A good life-affirming counselor that is focused on building good character and virtuous life skills is invaluable. In our office we have Ellen Flowers who uses this philosophy in her Life Coaching.
But the most basic tool for self-growth I know I call "The Mirror of Life". It is simply the understanding that we create the experience of our life 100%. We are fundamentally only emotionally attentive to things in life that mirror parts of ourselves we want to heal or connect with. So anytime you find yourself with a strong emotion about anyone or anything, see and know that this is a reflection of some part of yourself on a feeling level. Use this to discover yourself. It is amazing.
Take care,
David
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About Dr. DeLapp
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Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years. He began experimenting with medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis. In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education. Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic. He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice.
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health.
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities.
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth. The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework. Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.
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