Over-compensation

I just got back from my first ever professional massage.  Kind of strange, not used to that type of thing.  But I realize, there is a reason people get degrees to do this.

 The things that were going on in my back were unbelievable. 

I came in complaining of upper back / shoulder pain…and thought I had it pin-pointed down.  But the therapist didn’t want to know where I thought the pain was coming from.  He wanted to work around the area, because, chances are, if one place is injured, there are several other places injured as well.

Because we over-compensate…

So…the body, in trying to avoid pain in one spot, will get other parts of the body to work harder.

 The therapist starting massaging, and almost immediately found a spot.  Right there…your muscles are tight, there’s some swelling in the tendon as well.  Is that where you would locate most of the pain.

I thought to myself, “Well, yeah, now that you are dealing with it and have found it!” but, “No” is what I actually said.  So he moves on.  He finds a spot in my lower neck.  Again…”No” that’s not the spot I would have thought was giving me the issue.

A few minutes later, after working on the neck, he hit my shoulder and my whole body tightened.  “That’s the one.” he said before I could even tell him.  He said it happened a long time ago, he was certain, and the pain is there now because the rest of the body has been compensating for so long that it is sore as well…so the original pain is now back in the forefront.

Rebirth is hard.  It seems to me that as one wound is dealt with…it rarely seems to end there.  My spirit has been overcompensating for so long, that as one wound is found, and worked through…yet another appears.

At least for the physical body, you can soak in Epsom Salt.