I worked with a woman the other day who came in with pain in her pelvic region (her pubic bone to be exact). It had been nagging her for 9 months and she’s now 6 months pregnant. She’d been treated by a number of people who were all trying to reduce the pain with various approaches but nothing had worked. The pain wasn’t going away.
I instructed her to locate the epicenter of the pain with her fingertips and focus her attention there. I asked her what it felt like. "It hurts!" she groaned. 
I asked her to notice where the borders of the pain were. She described a spherical region around where she was touching.
Then I asked her to imagine the borders of the pain expanding and spreading out so instead of remaining concentrated at a specific point, it could become more diffuse. She did this and said that she could feel energy beginning to move through her pelvis.
I asked her "If you allowed this energy to fill your entire body instead of keeping it bound in your pelvis, what message would it carry to the rest of your cells?"
I added, "Since pain means pay attention, something needs to change, what do you think you’re supposed to be paying attention to that you’ve ignored enough tonow need pain to get you to focus on it?"
She continued to hold the point and her eyes welled up with tears, "I feel it" she said.
"This part is telling me to stop walking three miles a day and just take a casual stroll around the block instead.
It wants me to get support rather than try to do it all myself. It wants me to stop carrying my youngest son so much because he’s too heavy and it’s hurting me."
She continued on with a number of other things as well.
As she received the message that the pain held within it, the pain began to disappear. Her pubic bone suddenly was no longer something to fix and the pain was no longer a thing to take away or eradicate. Her body relaxed and the color came back to her face along with a smile.
"I’m going to listen to this part of me from now on" she said. "There’s wisdom there."
Think about times when you have pain. What do you do? Do you immediately try to make it go away? What if you put your hands on the area of pain, focused there and sought to discover what that part really wanted rather than cursed it for being a nuisance instead?
Then, what if you actually changed your behavior to comply with what that part wanted?
The power of acknowledgment and acceptance is profound. Look within first. What you discover might very well transform your life.
Dr. John Amaral DC
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