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How to Manage Your Musculoskeletal Health

80% of all adults in the U.S. experience, or report, lower back pain.

Compare that to 12% of the population who has sought the services of a chiropractor, or a doctor specializing in musculoskeletal health. That’s quite a disconnect.

Your body is your armor, your vessel, your best weapon, your biggest asset, and your ticket to step into the world. If it’s functioning at a lower setting than it was designed to, if it’s stiff and in pain, if its joints are tight and its muscles sore…

The life you’re living is limited.

The Studied Effect of Chronicling Your Life

For many of us, the last earnest attempt at journaling we made was somewhere very painful in our adolescence. And it probably had something to do with a crush on a classmate or a lamentation about the relentlessness of human suffering…

And because of that association, many adults find the concept of journaling childish.

But the benefits of journaling extend far beyond getting some worries off of your chest. 

In fact, the market for adult journaling has practically exploded in the last few years — ever heard of bullet journaling?

Physiological Gut Responses and their Emotional Connections

If you’ve ever felt your stomach twist into knots and recognized you felt nervous, congratulations. You’re human!

Now that science is getting wise to the brain-gut connection, we’re realizing that we’ve been intuitively paying attention to the subtle signal of the gut for much longer than we knew. But for much of history, we’ve written off gut reactions as illogical, sensitive, and generally unsubstantiated.

Turns out, there are actual, scientific reasons for these sensations that we’ve long assumed to be emotional.

Dr. Pedram Shojai

NY Times Best Selling author and film maker. Taoist Abbot and Qigong master. Husband and dad. I’m here to help you find your way and be healthy and happy. I don’t want to be your guru…just someone who’ll help point the way. If you’re looking for a real person who’s done the work, I’m your guy. I can light the path and walk along it with you but can’t walk for you.