The fatigue of pain

There are countless exercises for back pain. There are treatments, cures, anti-inflammatories and creams. There is also ice.

The most varied remedies are used to stop a critical situation and to be able to start with everyday life.

Back pain is debilitating, everything becomes tiring, even the simplest gestures are slowed down, uncertain. Moving becomes challenging and the quality of life is compromised.

It is rare to meet someone who has not suffered from it sometimes. It affects all, or almost all, both sedentary and active people. Those who do not practice sport adduce pain to lack of motion, while those who are addicted to physical activity believe that they have made excessive efforts or not exercised sufficiently. In reality having a solid back and developed muscles does not guarantee the absence of pain.

Back pain is not a disease but it is an effect of some imbalance that has occurred in the body. The factors that come into play are innumerable, often dictated by the agitated lifestyles to which we are forced today.

Listen to your body

The way in which one's body is treated is inseparable from how one faces all the other aspects of existence. It is more than legitimate not to want to feel more pain, to eliminate a "wrong posture" but the attitude may be different. One thing is simply wanting to eradicate, suffocate a symptom, another is to commit to what you want to achieve in life and learn to use your back, your body in a way that is functional to what you want to achieve.

Moshe Feldenkrais wrote "The use we make of ourselves is the best that our means allow us at that time."

Our movements are dictated by our habits and how we perceive ourselves, our self-image.

In the Feldenkrais Method lessons you gradually learn to perceive your movements in a new way, and the idea that doing our best means making a high effort is completely overturned. What matters is the quality of what we do, not the effort we produce. We grow following rules, obligations not to break, prohibitions, having to respond to the expectations of others. All this does not take into account what we simply are. In fact, we forget about ourselves, thanks to the idea of ​​having to be perfect. The Feldenkrais Method® refers to keeping watch over and taking care of our deepest essence.