Living with pain we feel in our muscles, nerves, joints, organs and even our skin which hangs around for more than six months is a doorway to chronic pain.

I lived with strange nerve and chronic pain while enduring sciatica, inflammation, tenderness, soreness and stiffness which all attributed to an ongoing state of unhappy muscles, nerves and limited painful movement. It even felt as if I couldn’t get enough breath into the muscles to move easily.

Chronic pain is a thing of the past

When I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, it was a relief to learn that the uncomfortable feelings I had been having in my 20’s and 30’s had a name to it.

As a kid, I remember looking at the muscle magazines learning what I needed to do to make this skinny kid into a muscular powerhouse. Even while living in chronic pain, I went to the gyms, stretched, lifted weights, thinking this would be a way out since exercise is usually considered a good thing.

Muscles and Chronic Pain Need Not Co-exist

Natural Ways to Deal with Chronic PainUnfortunately, lifting weights and stretching didn’t solve the pains. Eventually, movement provided the key to getting the muscles and chronic pain to no longer co-exist in order to comfortably move.

There are many approaches to helping people naturally overcome chronic pain. You can find out about some of those in this month’s Max Sports & Fitness where yours truly has finally made it in a muscle magazine.

Living with Chronic Pain

Our brain and body can serve us naturally to ward off the stiffness, aches, and pains we feel in our muscles and elsewhere. Through a long series of trials and errors, I stumbled onto how animals naturally self-correct and move so well.

While I believe in a natural aproach of pandiculating, the process animals use. This has been systematized as somatics exercises which offers a key to un-lock muscular stiffness, improve mobility and take us to a place of natural flexibility.

There are other complimentary approaches which can take us a step closer to a life not full of chronic pain. Being free in our body and moving well is our birthright.

Sometimes we need a little help and a plan to get out of chronic pain with the desire we can return to all the fun activities life has to offer.

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Edward Barrera
Edward Barrera

Founder of Gravity Werks, Hanna Somatic Educator. (H.S.E) Author of Move Like an Animal and The 1 Thing to Do to Relieve Pain, Stiffness, Tension and Stress Ed lived with Fibromyalgia (chronic pain) in his 20’s and 30’s. Now helps people overcome physical pain, reduce muscular stress & tension, and recover quickly from injury using safe, simple, natural (and Pharma free) tools known as somatics exercise. Where the brain changes the neuromuscular system back to comfort so you can confidently do what you want with your body.