Despite common beliefs, there is no such thing as “correct” posture. There is NO strong evidence that optimal posture even exists or that avoiding “incorrect” postures can prevent back or neck pain.
If you are finding yourself dreading the shorter days and colder days as winter approaches, spare a thought for the people of Tromsø – a city in Norway.
Do you wake up to fear, stress or pain? Is it just too hard to get up every morning these days? Are you lacking the energy to face the day? Do you just want to stay down and hide?
Whilst many of these blogs have considered the quality and importance of our relationship with the natural environment and with our own selves – including our sense of self-worth and our internal dialogue and self-talk, here I am going to concentrate on the importance of our romantic relationships.
Fear is an emotion that all of us will have felt – it is a natural response when our survival is threatened. However, fear can become a problem.
Do you feel guilty? Let’s talk about it. It’s not a great feeling, is it? By definition, guilt is telling you that you deserve to be blamed for something.
Food has more of a grip on us than most of us care to admit. Behaviour seems just too hard to change and pain, well pain has a mind of it’s own and comes or goes as it pleases.
The most important aspect for us at The Body Matters is that we can return to helping those with back pain, neck pain or joint pain and those that want to relax with a deep tissue massage.
It’s worth remembering that COVID-related anxiety is not only natural but helpful as it helps us to adopt routines that keep us safe.
When we have a problem, such as physical pain, there are many different ways in which we might react. Some of us might try to ignore it and just keep going.
