How's your back?
If you are looking for a fast lower back pain home treatment, here is the most important exercise you need. In fact, if you are in severe low back pain, this might be the only exercise you can perform.Since it can be executed anywhere, it is the easiest lower back pain home treatment to implement.
If you are ready to start, here's the first lesson. It begins with standing, and is simple to practice, and can be performed anywhere. However, you must give yourself one to two minutes of full attention for it to work.
If you feel like I did during my back pain episode you can't sit for long periods of time anyway. You feel the need to stand and relieve the pressure from your back.
This lesson shows you how to stand correctly, to stretch your vertebrates apart. In fact, over time you might discover you are a little taller. I have actually increased in height by half an inch over the last few years, and I'm not a growing kid anymore. The best part is that this lower back pain home treatment WORKS!
Here's how to perform it:
- Stand with your feet parallel shoulder width apart.
- Bend you knees slightly, and make sure your knees are aligned over the feet, not facing inward or outward. Also make sure your knees don't go farther than your toes-meaning: if you stood with your toes against the wall and bent your knees, your knees would not touch the wall. Try it.
- Your weight should be evenly distributed on your feet. Not on the heels not on the toes.
- Your toes are grabbing the ground slightly; you want to be connected here
- Relax and rest your hands by the side of the body
- Focus and stare at the horizon or some point ahead that is at forehead height.
- Place your tongue at the roof of your mouth, lightly touching the upper teeth. (This closes the circuit of energy rotating in your body, like a switch. Believe it or not, it doesn't hurt to perform this.)
- You want to feel as though your body is suspended from the tip of your head, while the rest of you body and feet are sinking into the ground. This feeling will come with practice, and in reality a stretch in the spine is occurring.
- Tuck your tailbone in towards the front and bottom, this pelvic rotation will straighten your lower back, and also tighten your abdominal muscles. Relax your stomach muscles on the next breath.
- This tilting might cause pain in your back if you are suffering from back pain and might increase the pain down your leg for those with sciatica. However, the pain will subside and go away in a few breaths. You need to relax into this standing position, don't focus on the pain, focus on your breath. The more you relax, the faster the pain will subside.
- Your breath should fill up your stomach area, although your belly is your lung, this is called belly breathing and is performed in all eastern practices. Your belly should expand on all sides, front back and sides, like a balloon expanding. Breath slowly and deeply, relaxed and not forced.
- Ask someone to look at the way you stand to make sure you are not tilting to one side and are standing straight up; at this point most people will be tilted backward or sideways. You want to be straight and plumb. If no one is available, look in a mirror, first facing forward, than sideways. Correct you posture and feel the difference from the way you were standing, close your eyes for a moment and relax and remember this difference. If you are out of alignment; your body needs to realign itself back to the center.
- Standing might FEEL a little uneasy and uncomfortable at first, but it gives immediate relief to your back, and strengthens it quickly. It can also be performed anywhere and anytime, completely unnoticed. Use your time at a line at the checkout stand, or bank to practice.
Many people get the shakes after a few seconds or within a minute or two. If you are performing this correctly, your legs will start to shake, and you will start to feel muscle pain in your thighs. PERFECT! That is what you are looking for. The pain will go away with more practice as your legs get stronger.
Perform this routine daily, a few times a day is best, it only requires STANDING AND FOCUS, nothing more.
Don't delay, try it NOW! If it feels too easy, you are probably not standing correctly, go up to a wall with your feet touching the wall and try again.
HOW'S YOUR BACK?
No comments:
Post a Comment