“Man, does that guy have a lot on his shoulders!” I am sitting at a sidewalk café with a friend. We’re having coffee, talking casually and looking at the people passing by. A well dressed man is walking across the street. He is not actually carrying anything, but it is obvious that something is burdening him. Did he lose money on the stock market? Has his wife left him for another man? We will …
Continue Reading about Body and Soul: The Connection Between Physical and Emotional Pain
Some years ago, while I was lifting a kettlebell and making a movement at the same time, I got a sharp pain in my lower back. Around the same period of time my left knee started grinding and I got pain in my right shoulder. I could see that the situation was caused by stress: Going over my limits and trying to squeeze in yet another a workout in an increasingly busy schedule. But why did the …
Smart Phones, Posture and Pain There are plenty of reasons to set aside your smart-phone and to focus on what you really are doing. Even though multi-tasking is a trendy word; The fact is that if you do several things at the same time you cannot really concentrate well on any of them. The thousands of people who end up in emergency rooms every day because they walk into something while texting …
