23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?

Update 9/3/14...It's gone...Again...I am back

Despite having some slight issues with the right hip/butte (one or the other, never at the same time)this past weekend, right now it feels 100% again! As unexpected as it came, it has left the body. I feel no pain, no sensation, nothing on the right side. It feels completely pain free and normal. I want to run, jump...Moooovvvveee!!! I wish I were able to single out a particular reason for the quick recovery, but I can't. I can admit to trying this though, though I didn't realize the effect would come so swiftly; I've been trying to observe and accept all thoughts, particularly when it's of anger. Not trying to stifle it or shut it down, but letting it burn itself out, just listening to it, aware of it, but being careful not to add to it. I want to attribute the healing to something, this may be it, but I can't find a single thing, as the healing cause, the pain has left so quickly, as if it was never there in the first place. I'll leave it at: the body is very very smart, and things I can't comprehend are undoubtedly affecting the state of my body/mind/life.

Great Article via NPR on Back Pain..."movement is medicine"

great article that reaffirms my experiences and resolution(s) of back pain. indeed, movement is medicine.

4/5/14 update

it's subsided/almost gone...again.
there is definitely a mental switch, a thought switch,
learned I need to be more aware of mind vs. get wrapped up in thoughts
observe vs. add to the fire
daily,
moment to moment.

consistency and clarity.
you may not be able to control the thought
but you can nudge it
you can influence it back to what you want
sometimes, you have to nudge, a lot
but this is the nature of training
slowly, you need less and less guidance/nudging
and it does it all on its own.

but at this point?
I need a lot of nudging.

Don't Quit
It'll happen
but
It takes
Consistency and Vigilance.
Go.
Do.

"Biochemicals of Emotion...were were nervous to call them that..."

Interesting interview with Bill Moyers, talks about how mind affects healing. Very interesting, especially when talking about tms or mbs. The nervous system, affected can close or open blood pathways. In this interview at 2:26 the Dr. talks about how the mind releases chemicals that affect the nervous system. This goes right at the theory of mind affecting health, and tms...and specifically...back pain (as explained by Dr. Sarno). The mind, a LOT going on here.

Wow, some jewels in here. Dr. Pert "the 'me' that's you is your whole body (not your brain)".

More Evidence that sitting is bad for you.

Dr. Sarno tells us that in TMS, blood is being restricted to the area of pain. Dr. Shubiner says that it is the nervous system gone hypersensitive that causes the pain. This article discusses how being sedentary affects the brain, it affects the nervous system restricting blood flow. Part of the article reads:
"A well-regulated sympathetic nervous system correctly directs blood vessels to widen or contract as needed and blood to flow, so that you can, say, scurry away from a predator or rise from your office chair without fainting. But an overly responsive sympathetic nervous system is problematic, said Patrick Mueller, an associate professor of physiology at Wayne State University who oversaw the new study. Recent science shows that “overactivity of the sympathetic nervous system contributes to cardiovascular disease,” he said, by stimulating blood vessels to constrict too much, too little or too often, leading to high blood pressure and cardiovascular damage.

Could this also be a reason for the rise of TMS, MBS...back pain in general?

full article here

New Year Update, 2014

Well, I'm a bit sad to say, a little bite is back in the right buttock. To spare the details, it's been essentially since Jan 1. :(. Pissed. It came with an incredible rush one night, really severe pain, I couldn't move, i could barely walk. I somehow managed to bed and laid down face first, any movement created this sharp pain, right side, right leg, like it was on fire. i did all i could to just not move, and slowly after about 3 or 4 hours, it subsided and i had some mobility back. That was frightening. So, fast forward to now, I just tried to run, it wasn't successful. 1 mile, 3 stops, right butte. So, I went back and read some Dr. Sarno and tried to see what is sparking this again. All anxiety and fear of future, of "oh crap!" Trying to talk it down. through the day if I can sit for a bit, I'm ok, but if i stand extended periods of time, it comes back. It really sucks. At the end of the year I was around 165 or so, after this though, without running/movement, I'm back at about 175 or so. I'm sure the extra weight isn't helping.

So, while this is going on, I come upon an NPR article on back pain via facebook, and it essentially says the same thing as Dr. Sarno. That it's really the nerves going haywire, the nervous system, not directly a physical, structural problem creating the situation. Check, I believe it. So, now? Well, let's do another countdown, hopefully, I can get it to heal quickly. Here goes...

You can listen to it here: