More Flexibility

Your shoulders are always tight.

When you’re stressed, they’re even more so.

You press the device with two tennis balls between your shoulder and a wall, and it feels good – while you’re doing it.

You get massages. You want to knead it, stretch it, roll it out. But here you are again – same time, same channel.

And now, I’m about to blow your mind.

There’s no such thing as stretching – muscles only contract and stop contracting.

Stretching a muscle actually excites the little receptors that tell the muscle to contract more.

Stretching actually makes you tighter!

What you really want is for your shoulders to stop contracting.

And the only way to stop those contractions is for your brain to stop sending the signal to contract.

Yep, your tight shoulders are actually in your brain!

But it feels so good to stretch.

It’s really hard to stop tightening your shoulders because it’s a deeply ingrained habit. And most approaches try to do just that – “fix” the tight muscle manually by stretching or kneading the tight muscle, which sounds completely logical.

Except it doesn’t work that way!

Wouldn’t it be great if it did? If it did, physical therapy would be more successful, and back pain wouldn’t be the largest cause of pain (according to the NIH).

Since it doesn’t, you can stretch and roll and massage all day, but until you actually turn off the signal from your brain, the muscle will always go back to being tight.

So, now what? What do you do?

Your muscle tightens because your brain is chronically sending a signal telling it to contract. The only way to stop the signal is to stop your brain from sending it.

And to do that, you have to become aware of your own blind spots.

That’s what this process does and why it’s so unique. No other approach actually exposes your ingrained habits – so you can sand them down and introduce new, easy movement.

Moving easier is the goal. Flexibility is the awesome side-effect.

While in most therapies, addressing the tight muscle is the goal, that process always leads you back to square one – a tight muscle.

In this approach, moving easier is the goal. We do that by revealing your habits, and flexibility is the awesome side-effect. Call me today. (971) 279-7110