HERNIATED DISC
The intervertebral disc consists of a jelly-like center (nucleus pulposus) and an outer fibrous ring. After puberty, because the disc is not vascularized and therefore has more reduced ability to regenerate, degenerative changes…
FIGHTING AGAINST PAIN ONLY MAKES IT WORSE
Only persistent, conscious, attentive, and curious exploration and an easier way to perform the movement and effectively express emotions eliminates pain and changes thinking. Sensory-motor amnesia…
PAINFUL MENSTRUATION
Dysmenorrhea is the medical term for menstrual cramps caused by uterine contractions, and it is similar to contractions at childbirth. The uterus (which is a muscle) mildly contracts throughout a woman’s menstrual cycle, however…
BACK PAIN
Most people with lower back pain are well aware of how much suffering, sacrifices and time it takes to eliminate that pain. You might have tried stretching, physical therapy, massage, chiropractic, acupuncture, painkillers, or even…
If you are balanced in a relationship…
… then you love the person you’re with because they complete you. Not because you need them but because you want them by your side, and that is what love is. If you wish to love another, you must first love…
MOVEMENT, FROM A CHILD TO AN ADULT
Certain events in our childhood leave a mark on us; if they are traumatic, we suppress them into the subconscious and then carry them around as extra luggage. It is self-protective, but at the same time, it burdens us.
SUPPRESSION OF EMOTIONS
ife in a social environment, societal rules, and interpersonal relationships demand that an adult does not show his feelings every time he feels them in himself. Through growing up, we learn which feelings we can show and which we…
Fear
We shouldn’t forget that we all went through periods of helplessness in our early childhood. But if the environment had not abused it, the separation from the energy source would not have occurred.
UNDERSTANDING PAIN
The online Oxford dictionary defines pain as a “highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury”, and lists as its second meaning “mental suffering or distress”. Since pain can result from both…
FIGHTING AGAINST PAIN ONLY MAKES IT WORSE
Only persistent, conscious, attentive, and curious exploration and an easier way to perform the movement and effectively express emotions eliminates pain and changes thinking. Sensory-motor amnesia…
IF I WERE A CHILD AGAIN, I WOULD…
Reading for stronger nerves: how does self-destruction work with the best of intentions? The resemblance to self-destruction in sports is no accident. Even in early childhood, a toddler has unmonitored access to the Internet and…
DIAGNOSIS: SUSPECTED ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS
I’ve been having back pain for a long time. I’m realizing now that I was able to silence the pain more, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t present. However, by learning the AEQ method®, I understand that when I tried…
INTEGRITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS
A person without consciousness would be like a robot: perfect in his movement, nor would he make too much or too little movement in unconditional goal orientation. He would feel no emotion and feeling and would be carefully protected…
DIFFICULT PATHS THAT REQUIRE COURAGE
Before I attended my first AEQ therapy, I thought that I would learn a couple of exercises that I will perform for a few months and that my undefined chronic pain will ease itself or maybe even disappear. After a few years…
SEPARATION
Despite man having the same basic body structure as other mammals, he is the only one that is perfectly balanced in an upright posture. The foundation for it is the increased role and strength of the buttock muscle. Upright posture…
IF I WERE A CHILD AGAIN, I WOULD…
Reading for stronger nerves: how does self-destruction work with the best of intentions? The resemblance to self-destruction in sports is no accident. Even in early childhood, a toddler has unmonitored access to the Internet and…
THE AFFECT OF CHRONIC PAIN ON OUR WELL-BEING
People have a universal response to pain: we tense up. This reaction appears everywhere, from babies to adults, even animals. The reaction is similar everywhere: we curl up to protect ourselves and avoid pain. This happens because…
EMOTIONS AND THE AEQ METHOD
Happiness, joy, anger, sadness, anxiety, fear, … emotions that we use to respond to events that feel important to us. And for all these emotions we can say that they have a bodily component to be reflected in the body, they affect the texture of…
SEPARATION
Despite man having the same basic body structure as other mammals, he is the only one that is perfectly balanced in an upright posture. The foundation for it is the increased role and strength of the buttock muscle. Upright posture…
The causes for chronic fatigue
A lack of liveliness despite an adequate amount of food, water, and oxygen is always the result of chronic muscle contraction and, thus, increased muscle tone, which is usually the result of repressed emotion…
Children and movement
CONTROLLING YOUR MUSCLES TO CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONS
The benefits of learning muscle control are not limited to sports. We learn…
COVID OFFERED US TIME AND A REVALUATION OF PRIORITIES
And most importantly – it didn’t make most people ill. Time, movement, and the coronavirus. Let’s use this time to slow it down.
THINKING PATTERNS DURING EXERCISE
With too many unwanted results, injuries, rapid mood swings, chronic fatigue, and an emotional inability to deal with disordered interpersonal relationships, we need to honestly ask and look for answers to why we exercise or train this way.