WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:03.540 Hello. 2 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:07.140 So what is the biggest mistake 3 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:09.139 that people make 4 00:00:09.599 --> 00:00:10.820 when they're in pain? 5 00:00:11.840 --> 00:00:18.715 And today, I wanna talk to you about something I've watched for thirty years or more in clinic rooms, 6 00:00:19.175 --> 00:00:23.355 on training tables, massage tables, in living rooms, 7 00:00:24.535 --> 00:00:28.840 just watching people on the screen over Zoom and in my body 8 00:00:29.540 --> 00:00:33.080 long before that, dealing with my own personal 9 00:00:34.580 --> 00:00:36.760 different pathologies that I've had. 10 00:00:37.300 --> 00:00:41.080 So the biggest mistake that people make when they're in pain 11 00:00:41.485 --> 00:00:43.505 is that they will focus 12 00:00:44.205 --> 00:00:48.385 on treating the place of pain that hurts in their body. 13 00:00:48.525 --> 00:00:52.545 So it might be my wrist, could be my neck, my shoulder. 14 00:00:55.289 --> 00:00:58.030 And I completely understand why because 15 00:00:58.410 --> 00:01:00.510 pain is very good at demanding 16 00:01:01.129 --> 00:01:01.629 attention, 17 00:01:02.010 --> 00:01:03.070 immediate attention, 18 00:01:04.409 --> 00:01:08.110 especially if the pain is due to a recent acute injury. 19 00:01:08.890 --> 00:01:09.390 However, 20 00:01:10.135 --> 00:01:12.395 if pain has built up over time, 21 00:01:12.775 --> 00:01:17.355 like when your shoulder is on fire or your lower back is locked up yet again, 22 00:01:17.735 --> 00:01:20.875 you know that feeling like it's never going to get better, 23 00:01:21.255 --> 00:01:24.315 or your feet are screaming at you by lunch time, 24 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:28.780 Of course, that's where your attention is going to go. We know this. 25 00:01:29.240 --> 00:01:30.300 But this is generally 26 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:31.740 a symptom 27 00:01:32.360 --> 00:01:33.420 of an imbalance 28 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:35.020 in your body 29 00:01:35.720 --> 00:01:37.500 due to a problem elsewhere. 30 00:01:38.854 --> 00:01:42.395 So if my foot is painful, it creates an instability 31 00:01:43.095 --> 00:01:45.435 which impacts my knee and my hip 32 00:01:45.814 --> 00:01:49.354 and I may end up with pain in my lower back because of that. 33 00:01:49.814 --> 00:01:52.075 But, of course, it is the immediate 34 00:01:52.590 --> 00:01:55.470 place of pain that feels wrong. Okay? 35 00:01:55.470 --> 00:02:03.810 So if I've got pain in my lower back now I'm thinking I have back pain and I'm not attributing that to instability 36 00:02:04.350 --> 00:02:06.130 in my hip and my foot. 37 00:02:06.590 --> 00:02:10.264 And that then becomes the bit you want someone 38 00:02:10.565 --> 00:02:11.305 to fix. 39 00:02:11.605 --> 00:02:15.465 Yeah? The bit where you're feeling the screaming pain, not necessarily 40 00:02:15.765 --> 00:02:16.505 the instability 41 00:02:17.125 --> 00:02:18.025 or the misalignment 42 00:02:18.805 --> 00:02:20.105 or the over extending 43 00:02:20.485 --> 00:02:21.944 that has created it. 44 00:02:22.780 --> 00:02:24.720 So what do you do? You book a massage. 45 00:02:25.500 --> 00:02:26.000 Yeah. 46 00:02:26.700 --> 00:02:27.840 You stretch your shoulder. 47 00:02:29.020 --> 00:02:30.480 You ice your knee. 48 00:02:31.740 --> 00:02:33.200 You go back to the physio. 49 00:02:33.580 --> 00:02:35.580 You try the new in Ixchel, 50 00:02:36.335 --> 00:02:36.915 the orthotics 51 00:02:37.215 --> 00:02:39.715 you might have spent a huge amount of money on. 52 00:02:40.255 --> 00:02:42.355 You scroll for the one exercise 53 00:02:42.815 --> 00:02:43.315 that's 54 00:02:43.615 --> 00:02:46.435 finally going to crack your pain. 55 00:02:49.760 --> 00:02:50.260 And, 56 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:51.300 of course, 57 00:02:52.720 --> 00:02:53.860 for a little while, 58 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:57.860 one of these things may ease your pain. 59 00:02:58.319 --> 00:02:59.299 And then quietly, 60 00:03:00.815 --> 00:03:01.315 slowly, 61 00:03:02.015 --> 00:03:02.834 it returns 62 00:03:03.534 --> 00:03:04.515 for some people 63 00:03:05.295 --> 00:03:05.795 quickly 64 00:03:06.575 --> 00:03:07.394 and annoyingly 65 00:03:07.775 --> 00:03:08.834 for other people. 66 00:03:09.614 --> 00:03:10.355 And sometimes, 67 00:03:11.055 --> 00:03:12.515 it's in the same spot, 68 00:03:12.894 --> 00:03:15.635 and sometimes, it will show up somewhere else. 69 00:03:16.610 --> 00:03:17.510 And sometimes 70 00:03:18.450 --> 00:03:19.510 when it's wearing 71 00:03:20.290 --> 00:03:26.630 that slightly different outfit, so yeah, yeah, well, the pain in my back went but now my shoulder hurts. 72 00:03:28.370 --> 00:03:29.510 And again, 73 00:03:31.395 --> 00:03:33.575 after enough rounds of this, 74 00:03:34.755 --> 00:03:39.175 people start to believe that their whole body is just the problem. 75 00:03:40.595 --> 00:03:41.415 And it isn't. 76 00:03:42.675 --> 00:03:44.615 It really truly isn't. 77 00:03:45.770 --> 00:03:46.750 It's actually 78 00:03:47.530 --> 00:03:48.270 how you 79 00:03:48.570 --> 00:03:49.710 use your body 80 00:03:50.010 --> 00:03:50.990 that's the problem. 81 00:03:51.530 --> 00:03:54.590 Can you believe that? Just just think about that. 82 00:03:55.050 --> 00:03:57.550 It's not your body that is the problem. 83 00:03:58.235 --> 00:03:59.775 It's the way you 84 00:04:00.235 --> 00:04:00.735 use 85 00:04:01.515 --> 00:04:03.295 this body, this vehicle, 86 00:04:04.155 --> 00:04:05.055 this organisation. 87 00:04:06.155 --> 00:04:08.334 It's the way you use it that's the problem. 88 00:04:09.995 --> 00:04:14.110 So here's what I've learnt both from my own recovery 89 00:04:15.050 --> 00:04:18.430 and from being trusted with hundreds, probably thousands 90 00:04:18.890 --> 00:04:20.830 of people's bodies. 91 00:04:22.010 --> 00:04:22.750 The pain 92 00:04:23.530 --> 00:04:24.350 is almost 93 00:04:24.890 --> 00:04:26.430 never the problem. 94 00:04:27.425 --> 00:04:27.925 Never. 95 00:04:29.025 --> 00:04:29.845 The pain 96 00:04:30.705 --> 00:04:31.685 is the message. 97 00:04:32.705 --> 00:04:35.045 It's your body telling you, 98 00:04:35.665 --> 00:04:37.285 often after years 99 00:04:37.825 --> 00:04:38.645 of patience 100 00:04:39.585 --> 00:04:41.445 and being so resilient, 101 00:04:42.840 --> 00:04:43.659 that something 102 00:04:44.039 --> 00:04:44.539 somewhere, 103 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:47.180 somewhere else in the chain, 104 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:54.379 somewhere in this chain of, you know, I have a hand, then I have a lower arm, then I have an upper arm, then I have a shoulder. 105 00:04:54.599 --> 00:04:55.099 Somewhere 106 00:04:55.960 --> 00:04:57.020 in the chain 107 00:04:57.565 --> 00:04:59.025 has been out of alignment 108 00:04:59.645 --> 00:05:00.865 for a long time 109 00:05:01.325 --> 00:05:02.785 or has been overused 110 00:05:03.805 --> 00:05:04.305 repeatedly, 111 00:05:05.005 --> 00:05:07.105 maybe for a shorter period of time. 112 00:05:07.885 --> 00:05:09.025 Did you get that? 113 00:05:09.840 --> 00:05:11.860 I mean, really did you get that? 114 00:05:13.280 --> 00:05:14.820 Read it again if not. 115 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:16.580 Okay. Pain 116 00:05:16.960 --> 00:05:18.340 is the message. 117 00:05:19.520 --> 00:05:22.020 It's your body telling you 118 00:05:22.475 --> 00:05:22.975 that 119 00:05:23.514 --> 00:05:26.735 often after years of being patient with you, 120 00:05:27.595 --> 00:05:28.495 that something 121 00:05:29.035 --> 00:05:31.135 somewhere else in the chain 122 00:05:31.835 --> 00:05:34.815 of what that part of your body is connected to 123 00:05:35.300 --> 00:05:36.920 has been out of alignment 124 00:05:37.380 --> 00:05:39.080 for a long time. 125 00:05:40.340 --> 00:05:42.280 So your shoulder isn't misbehaving 126 00:05:42.980 --> 00:05:44.760 at all. It's compensating 127 00:05:45.620 --> 00:05:49.480 because your rib cage is held, because your breath is shallow, 128 00:05:50.100 --> 00:05:52.014 because your pelvis is tipped 129 00:05:53.435 --> 00:05:55.455 forwards, upwards, sideways, 130 00:05:55.835 --> 00:05:57.215 whatever it might be, 131 00:05:57.914 --> 00:06:02.495 because your feet aren't pointing in the direction they're designed to point in. 132 00:06:02.955 --> 00:06:05.534 So bones stack, joints move. 133 00:06:06.440 --> 00:06:07.900 Muscles work together 134 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:13.180 to facilitate all of this and give strength to all of this. 135 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:16.780 And when one part of this beautiful system 136 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:18.460 falls out of alignment, 137 00:06:19.400 --> 00:06:21.995 the rest of you has to compensate 138 00:06:22.375 --> 00:06:23.835 and take up the slack. 139 00:06:24.375 --> 00:06:26.794 And it will do this very lovingly, 140 00:06:27.175 --> 00:06:28.074 very generously 141 00:06:28.535 --> 00:06:29.354 for years 142 00:06:29.655 --> 00:06:30.155 until 143 00:06:30.935 --> 00:06:31.595 it can't. 144 00:06:33.014 --> 00:06:33.514 Done. 145 00:06:34.370 --> 00:06:36.069 I'm done, the body says, 146 00:06:36.530 --> 00:06:39.669 and it's going to set off an alarm of pain. 147 00:06:40.770 --> 00:06:43.270 And the place where it finally gives up 148 00:06:44.050 --> 00:06:45.430 more often than not 149 00:06:46.815 --> 00:06:50.435 is never the place that caused it to give up. 150 00:06:51.615 --> 00:06:52.995 Just think about that. 151 00:06:53.854 --> 00:06:57.235 If you're in pain somewhere in your body, where else in your body 152 00:06:57.615 --> 00:07:02.540 is kinda switched off or misaligned so much that the place you're feeling pain 153 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:04.300 is in so much pain. 154 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:09.260 And that's why chasing the pain around your body never quite works. 155 00:07:09.400 --> 00:07:12.220 You're treating a symptom of a structural 156 00:07:12.520 --> 00:07:13.020 conversation 157 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:16.060 that's been going on much further 158 00:07:16.535 --> 00:07:18.475 up or down the chain, 159 00:07:18.935 --> 00:07:21.195 instead of looking at the relationships 160 00:07:21.574 --> 00:07:23.435 the whole chain is having together. 161 00:07:24.854 --> 00:07:26.074 The second mistake, 162 00:07:26.455 --> 00:07:29.995 which sits underneath the first one, is then, 163 00:07:31.080 --> 00:07:32.380 understandably so, 164 00:07:33.080 --> 00:07:36.460 handing your body over to someone else to fix it 165 00:07:37.080 --> 00:07:38.780 with a sense of powerlessness, 166 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:40.060 helplessness, 167 00:07:40.760 --> 00:07:41.260 hopelessness. 168 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:44.940 And I say this as someone 169 00:07:46.115 --> 00:07:47.655 who has spent years 170 00:07:48.595 --> 00:07:49.735 as the person 171 00:07:50.675 --> 00:07:52.855 other people came to be fixed by. 172 00:07:55.075 --> 00:07:56.935 I trained in systematic kinesiology. 173 00:07:57.715 --> 00:07:59.810 I initially trained in reflexology, 174 00:08:00.430 --> 00:08:00.930 aromatherapy, 175 00:08:02.270 --> 00:08:04.689 and then I I really trained 176 00:08:04.990 --> 00:08:06.849 in clinical and rehabilitation 177 00:08:07.389 --> 00:08:09.250 massage to degree level. 178 00:08:10.965 --> 00:08:11.944 Degree level 179 00:08:12.324 --> 00:08:13.705 and orthopedic assessment 180 00:08:14.085 --> 00:08:15.224 and gait analysis. 181 00:08:17.205 --> 00:08:19.705 So I know what hands on work can do 182 00:08:20.085 --> 00:08:21.064 and I have 183 00:08:21.525 --> 00:08:22.824 huge respect 184 00:08:23.400 --> 00:08:25.580 for the practitioners I work alongside 185 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:28.380 who are helping people in this way. 186 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:30.060 Because 187 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:31.500 what I'm 188 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:38.620 what we what we're going to talk about in a moment are kind of directing people to is an as well as. 189 00:08:38.945 --> 00:08:40.725 It's not an instead of. 190 00:08:42.304 --> 00:08:43.924 But I also know this. 191 00:08:45.185 --> 00:08:46.245 If every time 192 00:08:46.705 --> 00:08:48.165 your pain comes back, 193 00:08:48.625 --> 00:08:50.404 you have to go and see someone. 194 00:08:52.230 --> 00:08:52.730 You 195 00:08:53.670 --> 00:08:54.730 are not free. 196 00:08:56.870 --> 00:08:57.530 You're managing. 197 00:08:58.390 --> 00:08:59.290 You're coping. 198 00:09:00.230 --> 00:09:02.170 You're on a treadmill of relief 199 00:09:03.430 --> 00:09:04.970 that costs you time 200 00:09:05.510 --> 00:09:06.170 and money 201 00:09:07.025 --> 00:09:08.405 that you could be using 202 00:09:08.865 --> 00:09:10.165 in a different way 203 00:09:11.105 --> 00:09:12.245 to do extraordinary 204 00:09:12.625 --> 00:09:14.165 things in your life. 205 00:09:16.385 --> 00:09:21.125 Meanwhile, quietly, your sense of agency over your body disappears. 206 00:09:22.010 --> 00:09:22.830 The chiropractor 207 00:09:23.370 --> 00:09:25.550 can put you back in alignment for sure. 208 00:09:26.010 --> 00:09:26.910 The osteopath 209 00:09:27.850 --> 00:09:29.790 can release the bones and tissue. 210 00:09:30.570 --> 00:09:32.030 Absolutely they can. 211 00:09:32.650 --> 00:09:34.910 And the physio can give you exercises 212 00:09:35.290 --> 00:09:37.470 and ultrasound 100%. 213 00:09:38.515 --> 00:09:40.535 But unless something changes 214 00:09:41.235 --> 00:09:43.895 in the way you stand, walk, sit, 215 00:09:44.355 --> 00:09:44.855 breathe, 216 00:09:45.955 --> 00:09:47.095 even think 217 00:09:48.035 --> 00:09:49.335 and hold yourself 218 00:09:50.350 --> 00:09:54.850 between those appointments, your body will more often than not 219 00:09:55.550 --> 00:09:56.290 keep moving 220 00:09:56.750 --> 00:09:57.890 straight back 221 00:09:58.590 --> 00:10:01.170 into the same pattern it had before. 222 00:10:02.865 --> 00:10:06.485 If the pain was due to long term habit movement, 223 00:10:07.425 --> 00:10:09.045 habits of your body. 224 00:10:10.465 --> 00:10:16.805 And that isn't a failure on your part at all. It really isn't. It's just what happens 225 00:10:18.380 --> 00:10:21.680 when no one has ever taught you 226 00:10:23.020 --> 00:10:23.920 in real 227 00:10:24.540 --> 00:10:25.040 felt 228 00:10:25.820 --> 00:10:26.320 detail 229 00:10:27.500 --> 00:10:30.240 how your own body is actually meant to work. 230 00:10:31.100 --> 00:10:32.800 And this blows my mind. 231 00:10:34.435 --> 00:10:41.415 It it it just blows my mind. No one has taught you how your body is meant to work when it moves. 232 00:10:42.595 --> 00:10:43.574 So for example, 233 00:10:43.875 --> 00:10:46.774 I just stood and watched a group 234 00:10:47.270 --> 00:10:50.250 of people playing bowls in my local park. 235 00:10:51.590 --> 00:10:53.850 Some of them clearly in pain 236 00:10:55.030 --> 00:10:56.170 with absolutely 237 00:10:57.750 --> 00:10:58.250 zero 238 00:10:58.710 --> 00:10:59.210 concept 239 00:11:00.035 --> 00:11:01.015 of how the combination 240 00:11:01.875 --> 00:11:03.975 of the the equation almost 241 00:11:04.515 --> 00:11:06.295 of their alignment, their mobility, 242 00:11:06.675 --> 00:11:07.495 and gravity, 243 00:11:07.875 --> 00:11:10.695 literally the weight of the body sinking down, 244 00:11:12.595 --> 00:11:13.415 was creating 245 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:16.780 their injuries in the present moment 246 00:11:18.920 --> 00:11:23.340 and how just really simple things that they could do could change that. 247 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:26.380 Really simple things, 248 00:11:26.680 --> 00:11:27.980 not difficult things. 249 00:11:29.075 --> 00:11:30.935 So this is the whole reason 250 00:11:31.475 --> 00:11:33.655 I created the Ixchel system 251 00:11:34.595 --> 00:11:36.535 and why it's built in this way. 252 00:11:37.155 --> 00:11:38.535 It isn't a treatment. 253 00:11:39.715 --> 00:11:41.095 It isn't another 254 00:11:41.475 --> 00:11:41.975 thing 255 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:43.699 to be done by you. 256 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:45.459 It's an education 257 00:11:47.760 --> 00:11:49.139 in your own bones 258 00:11:49.920 --> 00:11:50.660 that you 259 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:51.860 apply 260 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:54.180 and program into yourself. 261 00:11:55.195 --> 00:12:01.214 And in get into your body level one, we start with the feet because almost everything 262 00:12:01.834 --> 00:12:02.894 above the feet 263 00:12:03.274 --> 00:12:04.575 is being shaped 264 00:12:04.954 --> 00:12:06.014 by what's happening 265 00:12:06.795 --> 00:12:07.695 below them. 266 00:12:09.230 --> 00:12:10.530 And most people 267 00:12:11.070 --> 00:12:14.850 have no idea. So we work upwards joint by joint, 268 00:12:15.150 --> 00:12:16.210 bone by bone 269 00:12:16.750 --> 00:12:20.610 over seven weeks and 48 practices, simple practices 270 00:12:21.790 --> 00:12:22.610 until you 271 00:12:24.555 --> 00:12:25.055 genuinely 272 00:12:28.155 --> 00:12:31.295 genuinely know your own structure from the inside. 273 00:12:32.395 --> 00:12:33.535 Not as theory 274 00:12:34.715 --> 00:12:35.935 but as felt 275 00:12:36.395 --> 00:12:36.895 experience. 276 00:12:38.790 --> 00:12:42.810 You can feel it. You can feel these relationships building. 277 00:12:43.830 --> 00:12:45.450 And it's the kind of knowing 278 00:12:47.029 --> 00:12:47.930 excuse me. 279 00:12:48.310 --> 00:12:49.690 It's a kind of knowing 280 00:12:50.070 --> 00:12:54.954 that means you can catch yourself collapsing into your hip before you're 281 00:12:55.355 --> 00:12:57.615 well, while you're standing at the kettle 282 00:12:57.995 --> 00:13:00.014 and gently bring yourself back. 283 00:13:00.475 --> 00:13:02.654 You start to feel your body 284 00:13:03.035 --> 00:13:04.254 going out of alignment. 285 00:13:04.954 --> 00:13:07.694 Or you learn where in space your head should be 286 00:13:08.074 --> 00:13:08.975 when you move. 287 00:13:09.650 --> 00:13:15.330 Is my head where it should be? Could it be further back? Is it rotated? Is it slightly up? 288 00:13:15.330 --> 00:13:17.430 You know, you'd start to learn, 289 00:13:17.970 --> 00:13:20.230 but to recognize and understand, 290 00:13:23.055 --> 00:13:24.035 which is amazing. 291 00:13:26.175 --> 00:13:28.274 And that is what changes pain. 292 00:13:28.895 --> 00:13:32.675 Not harder treatment of the loudest screaming part of your body, 293 00:13:33.135 --> 00:13:34.115 but acquire 294 00:13:34.575 --> 00:13:35.475 more honest 295 00:13:36.015 --> 00:13:36.515 relationship 296 00:13:37.455 --> 00:13:37.590 with 297 00:13:39.670 --> 00:13:43.770 with the whole of you. And that is what we know 298 00:13:44.390 --> 00:13:45.130 and believe 299 00:13:45.430 --> 00:13:47.130 works for pretty much everybody. 300 00:13:48.470 --> 00:13:50.810 So just listen to that again. A quieter, 301 00:13:51.510 --> 00:13:52.250 more honest 302 00:13:52.630 --> 00:13:53.130 relationship 303 00:13:53.805 --> 00:13:55.185 with the whole of you 304 00:13:56.285 --> 00:14:00.545 is what we know and believe works for pretty much everybody. 305 00:14:03.085 --> 00:14:06.785 The other thing I want to say because I think it matters 306 00:14:07.089 --> 00:14:09.750 is that bodies don't change well in isolation 307 00:14:11.010 --> 00:14:11.670 at all. 308 00:14:12.210 --> 00:14:12.710 Pain 309 00:14:13.890 --> 00:14:15.270 can make people disappear. 310 00:14:17.250 --> 00:14:18.870 They stop coming to things. 311 00:14:19.865 --> 00:14:25.084 They stop telling anyone how much their day is being eaten up by it, 312 00:14:27.065 --> 00:14:27.565 or 313 00:14:27.945 --> 00:14:33.165 they talk about it all the time to the point where people don't want to be around them. 314 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:35.980 And 315 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:42.699 overall, people just try and push on on their own with the help maybe of medication, 316 00:14:43.079 --> 00:14:44.380 which can be completely 317 00:14:44.920 --> 00:14:46.405 valid to have, 318 00:14:46.945 --> 00:14:48.945 at times, 100%. 319 00:14:48.945 --> 00:14:50.805 This isn't instead medical advice 320 00:14:51.105 --> 00:14:51.845 at all, 321 00:14:53.585 --> 00:14:54.405 or treatment. 322 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:00.700 But I understand the 323 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:03.660 impulse of withdrawing. 324 00:15:04.839 --> 00:15:08.620 And in thirty years of working with bodies, 325 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:11.980 I've never seen anyone 326 00:15:13.625 --> 00:15:14.125 untangle 327 00:15:14.745 --> 00:15:17.485 long term pain alone in a vacuum 328 00:15:18.665 --> 00:15:19.805 from sheer willpower. 329 00:15:21.065 --> 00:15:27.085 So just as the body is made up of a community of internal systems that need to be organised, 330 00:15:28.130 --> 00:15:29.270 Bodies change 331 00:15:30.050 --> 00:15:31.830 in rhythm and in relationship 332 00:15:32.210 --> 00:15:35.510 within a supportive community externally as well. 333 00:15:36.130 --> 00:15:41.910 But a community that is literally teaching you to stand on your own two feet, to tune in 334 00:15:42.575 --> 00:15:43.715 rather than copy 335 00:15:44.495 --> 00:15:48.435 another human being. We we teach you to fine tune 336 00:15:48.975 --> 00:15:50.195 into your alignment. 337 00:15:51.055 --> 00:15:54.595 And your body changes when you come back to the accountability 338 00:15:54.975 --> 00:15:55.635 of that. 339 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:57.140 For a few weeks 340 00:15:57.520 --> 00:16:05.700 using the same practices with other people who are doing the same as well as practicing it in your own home, in your own time. 341 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:11.715 And then you are using those practices in your day to day activities, 342 00:16:12.575 --> 00:16:13.075 standing, 343 00:16:13.455 --> 00:16:14.755 walking, sitting, 344 00:16:15.615 --> 00:16:17.555 whatever movements you do. 345 00:16:18.015 --> 00:16:23.395 And that's exactly why we built the Ixchel integration membership and why we run 346 00:16:24.280 --> 00:16:26.940 check into your body sessions every week 347 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:32.220 so people know that we are always there and they can drop into that. 348 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:35.340 And we have a global practitioner 349 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:37.100 training community 350 00:16:37.560 --> 00:16:38.540 teaching this. 351 00:16:39.915 --> 00:16:43.535 So if you're reading this or you're listening to this 352 00:16:44.315 --> 00:16:45.775 with something that hurts, 353 00:16:46.875 --> 00:16:48.015 whether it's fibromyalgia, 354 00:16:48.955 --> 00:16:50.735 ME, plantar fasciitis, 355 00:16:51.755 --> 00:16:54.015 chronic back pain, carpal tunnel, 356 00:16:55.180 --> 00:16:56.160 chronic neck pain, 357 00:16:57.500 --> 00:16:58.000 migraines, 358 00:16:58.540 --> 00:17:01.360 IBS. I mean, the list, it just keeps on. 359 00:17:02.220 --> 00:17:02.959 Or just 360 00:17:03.660 --> 00:17:06.800 you have a body that's been quietly compensating 361 00:17:07.585 --> 00:17:11.925 for so long that you've forgotten what easy movement feels like. 362 00:17:12.545 --> 00:17:13.765 Please hear me. 363 00:17:14.865 --> 00:17:17.205 You are not broken. 364 00:17:18.785 --> 00:17:19.925 I promise you. 365 00:17:21.089 --> 00:17:24.150 Your body is not betraying you, 366 00:17:25.170 --> 00:17:26.790 but it's telling you 367 00:17:27.490 --> 00:17:28.390 very precisely 368 00:17:29.890 --> 00:17:30.950 where the conversation 369 00:17:31.250 --> 00:17:32.230 needs to begin. 370 00:17:33.665 --> 00:17:35.045 The mistake isn't 371 00:17:35.665 --> 00:17:36.565 your pain. 372 00:17:37.505 --> 00:17:39.365 The mistake is treating 373 00:17:39.745 --> 00:17:40.565 the loud 374 00:17:40.865 --> 00:17:41.365 displace 375 00:17:42.065 --> 00:17:43.925 and ignoring the whole 376 00:17:44.945 --> 00:17:45.445 intelligent, 377 00:17:47.100 --> 00:17:47.600 extraordinary 378 00:17:48.380 --> 00:17:48.880 structure 379 00:17:49.820 --> 00:17:51.440 that's been holding you 380 00:17:51.900 --> 00:17:52.400 around 381 00:17:53.980 --> 00:17:55.680 the whole area of pain. 382 00:17:56.540 --> 00:17:58.160 And there is another way. 383 00:17:59.465 --> 00:18:01.005 There is. We know it. 384 00:18:01.705 --> 00:18:02.525 It's slower. 385 00:18:03.705 --> 00:18:04.525 It's kinder. 386 00:18:05.625 --> 00:18:06.765 It's more honest, 387 00:18:08.425 --> 00:18:17.540 and it puts you back in charge of your own bones and the direction that they're taking you and the rest of your body and all those systems in. 388 00:18:18.560 --> 00:18:19.700 And that's the work, 389 00:18:20.320 --> 00:18:22.180 and that's the Ixchel system, 390 00:18:23.040 --> 00:18:24.900 and that's why we're here. 391 00:18:27.235 --> 00:18:33.015 So if any of this landed somewhere true for you, here's where I would start. 392 00:18:35.795 --> 00:18:40.215 The fastest way to feel what I'm talking about in your body 393 00:18:40.595 --> 00:18:41.160 is our 394 00:18:41.560 --> 00:18:45.260 free seven day pain fix challenge. It's ten minutes a day, 395 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:47.180 one simple practice, 396 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:49.180 and a felt sense 397 00:18:49.800 --> 00:18:50.860 of what changes 398 00:18:52.120 --> 00:18:54.380 when you stop chasing the pain 399 00:18:55.225 --> 00:18:56.445 and start listening 400 00:18:56.904 --> 00:18:57.804 to the structure 401 00:18:58.345 --> 00:19:00.445 and the alignment underneath it. 402 00:19:01.225 --> 00:19:03.245 And then when you're ready to go deeper, 403 00:19:04.424 --> 00:19:09.004 the get into your body level one takes you through these practices 404 00:19:09.304 --> 00:19:10.790 over seven weeks. 405 00:19:12.210 --> 00:19:14.870 And between those two, the bridge between 406 00:19:15.330 --> 00:19:19.190 the seven day pain fix and the get into your body level one programme 407 00:19:20.050 --> 00:19:20.550 is 408 00:19:21.730 --> 00:19:25.350 to create a slow mo video of how you walk. 409 00:19:25.684 --> 00:19:27.145 And let us see you. 410 00:19:27.765 --> 00:19:29.785 Let us see how your body 411 00:19:30.245 --> 00:19:31.465 is creating pain 412 00:19:32.165 --> 00:19:33.544 and how we can 413 00:19:34.085 --> 00:19:34.905 show you. 414 00:19:36.885 --> 00:19:38.424 And then you 415 00:19:39.250 --> 00:19:39.750 can 416 00:19:40.130 --> 00:19:42.470 begin one step at a time, literally, 417 00:19:43.970 --> 00:19:45.429 to gen genuinely 418 00:19:46.289 --> 00:19:47.270 know your bones 419 00:19:47.730 --> 00:19:48.710 from the inside 420 00:19:49.090 --> 00:19:50.710 and to create the structure 421 00:19:51.010 --> 00:19:51.909 and support 422 00:19:52.865 --> 00:19:54.725 that will allow your body 423 00:19:55.825 --> 00:19:56.645 to realize 424 00:19:57.985 --> 00:19:58.885 that, actually, 425 00:20:00.385 --> 00:20:01.605 the biggest mistake 426 00:20:02.945 --> 00:20:03.765 is something 427 00:20:04.065 --> 00:20:05.685 you can easily fix. 428 00:20:07.380 --> 00:20:09.640 So I'm looking forward to meeting you 429 00:20:10.340 --> 00:20:11.480 within our community, 430 00:20:11.860 --> 00:20:17.240 and we're just waiting to help you take that next best step for you and your body.