The body is basically your friend
A young businessman came to the clinic with severe back pains. He had reached down for his bag and out of nowhere he now looked like a crooked version of the number 7.
He got on the massage table and was relieved from his pains through acupuncture and massage. He complained that his back often caused him pain, and that it sometimes meant he was unable to work for days. He didn’t have time for that.
It was difficult to exercise. He had lot of hours behind his desk, in a car or on a plane, when business called. He was also pressured by some issues at home. It then flew from my mouth “What do you think your back is trying to tell you?”
If we go back to the 1970’s, there were many pioneers in the danish health industry. One of which was Julia Vøldan, who is probably most famous for her retreat center, where she treated cancer patients among many others, as well as her plus-minus balance/alkaline – acidity balance. Let us look at her views on sickness and health – this is from “Ny Tid og VI” from 1978:
After three treatments he had mostly recovered. He used his recovery period to sort out his priorities, meaning his sleep and food habits, and most of all his family life. A lot of alkaline liquids green juices, smoothies and soups was the new menu. And it helped. In the beginning he saw his back pains as an annoyance and a restriction for his career. Five days at home with his family made him see that he was glad he had been stopped. He went from cursing the annoying back to actually listening to the true priorities in life. Slowly he restarted with his new food, sleep and exercising habits as his baggage.
Later he has told me that he occasionally deals with back pains and then looks himself in the mirror and asks: Why am I being stopped? What have I not seen, heard or felt? He used his back as a sort of measuring tool – it had become his friend.