I would like to talk about back pain from the perspective of its original source. In order to do that we've got to go way back to the start; back to when we were in the womb, and when we were just babies and when we were young kids. During that time in our lives, the section of our nervous system that was online was an important part that was just feeling into our environment. There was no thinking. We were just relating directly to the energetics of our environment with this very sensitive part of our nervous system.

As we were doing that, we were feeling into the persons around us, especially our moms and dads. We may have noticed that there seemed to be something in their system that gave us the sense that the world was not really safe. We may have realized that there were certain feelings as well as emotions and sensations that their nervous systems said were not safe to feel; maybe anger, or grief, or shame, and even joy. Since we were depending upon these people for our survival, our nervous system said, "Well, this must be the way it's done. " So our nervous system adopted these patterns being a natural course of things.

These programs that get installed inside our systems are the fundamental stratum of survival programming that underlie everything that happens to us afterwards. Therefore the falling off our bike, the car accident, the sitting on wallet, the sitting at a computer, all of the things that conventional chiropractors usually mention, are all secondary to the particular survival programs that get installed inside our system early on. In fact we're more likely to get injured by the motor vehicle accident because our nervous systems can't adjust to it and we're less likely to end up being able to heal from it because there's always a fundamental layer of survival programming underlying the injury that won't allow it to heal completely.

When our nervous system sets up these programs it uses muscle tension to wall off the energy that was deemed unsafe, to keep it sequestered and keep it outside of our awareness. It shuts breath down to these parts because if we breathe into it, we've got to experience it, and our nervous system has found that these things are not safe to experience. We use our posture too help separate the offending parts from moving into relationship with other parts.

From the perspective of this model, you will find two basic reasons that pain starts to come to the surface. The first situation is one in which new developmental stage is dawning. In this particular new developmental stage the energy that had been seen as unsafe back then is not any longer seen as unsafe therefore our body starts to release it and it starts to come to the surface. We can often experience that as back pain. In this case the back pain is actually our body trying to correct itself. Second, if our nervous system has used plenty of resources for creating survival programs, at some point our nervous system might run out of resources to keep dedicating to these survival programs. At that point this strategy starts to break up and that energy starts to leak out. When it starts to move and come into consciousness it can show up as all sorts of things, but back pain is often at least one.

When we look at back pain with this perspective, it's merely stuck energy that's trying to move. In this view, pain is in fact the solution. We feel the pain because the body is actually trying to correct itself. The way to extract the most effective from the pain is to go towards it.

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