We are constantly bombarded with the idea that all pain is bad. But in truth, pain is just how your body communicates with you. It's a messenger. If you run right for pain killers to numb the pain away, you could miss the messages your body is trying to send you about the help that it needs. Listening to your body and actually healing the issue that's causing your pain in the first place is a much better option.

Numbing Pain vs Healing It

Pain meds or other numbing agents don't 'cure' the pain, at best they just make it so you can't feel the pain anymore. The trouble is that with the pain removed, you won't be motivated to seek out a and fix what actually caused the pain in the first place. This allows it to quietly worsen inside your body over time. This would be like hearing your smoke detector going off, seeing smoke in your house and just taking the batteries out of the smoke detector. If you don't question, what's going on? And deal with it appropriately you could end up with a really big problem on your hands. The sooner you act, the easier that fire will go out. Healing is the same way, the sooner you correct the actual cause of your pain, giving your body the help it needs, the sooner you'll be pain free.

Is Pain Really a Bad Thing?

So, the question then is, is pain really a bad thing? Just getting upset about the very existence of pain in your body is like being angry at the smoke detector. It's trying to save you and alert you to an issue that needs your attention. Maybe pain is really a friend trying to help you not an enemy trying to ruin your life?

For long term healing, you have to learn to feel into the pain and respond appropriately. You'll need some expert guidance to help you understand what's causing your pain and teach you how you can help your body and relieve that pain. Often times pain is caused by tightness and restrictions your muscles, ligaments, tendons and connective tissue also called fascia. Addressing those restrictions with sustained pressure and increased awareness while learning to soften into the pain is how you can truly relieve it. 

This is the biggest difference between good myofascial release treatment and other healing modalities. MFR helps us feel into the issue and go toward the problem in order to help it. To give your body what it really needs to make lasting healing changes instead of just numbing or muting the messages your body is trying to send you. 

Pain is How Your Body Asks for Help

In authentic MFR healing you don't have to resist the pain, you can feel into it and let it go as your restrictions and pain melt away and your body releases and heals. Feeling into your pain and releasing the restrictions causing that pain are skills you can learn. I teach all my clients, both in my Online Become Pain Free Program, and my in person clients, to do this so they will always know how to relieve any pains they have now or that arise in the future. They learn how to listen to the messages from their body and act appropriately to relieve their pain without needing to just ignore it or run from it. Pain is how your body asks for help. Instead of numbing it out of muting the messenger, why not give your body the help it really needs.