Nine times out of ten the neck, back & shoulder pain that I treat with massage therapy and stress relief techniques is caused by mental stress or an old habit of thought. When we carry other people around with us mentally and emotionally in a negative cloud of worry, sooner or later physical pain is going to follow. It's usually around the neck, back and shoulders. Even if the pain is made worse by working at computer all day, the underlying cause is usually worry.
Neck Pain
Louise Hay says that neck problems are probably caused by "refusing to see other sides of a question. Stubbornness and inflexibility." Too often we are unwilling to believe that there can be any other way than our way. We become unwilling to believe that "letting go" mentally and emotionally opens the door to true caring and unconditional love.
From that mindset our neck stiffens as we refuse to see the other side of the story. We become like a horse with blinders on who can only look straight ahead.
Sometimes during treatment sessions, the pain in the client's neck disappears before I actually touch her neck. Because she relaxed into her body and became willing to release the painful thought, the pain in her neck resolved.
You would not believe how many times I've treated clients for a "crick" in their neck caused from either sleeping on the couch away from their spouse or simply from going to bed mad.
Next post on neck pain: Who Is the Pain in Your Neck and What to Do about Him/Her.
*Photo by This Year's Love, Creative Commons License
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