There are times when you are the cause of your back-pain.

Most of often our aches and pains are caused by our negative thoughts and everything else associated with it. It has been observed that at times when we weighed with a problem and we perceive lack of support in our lives from our friends and family, we experience back-pains.

To let go of it we need to let go of our negative beliefs and perceptions. Those are the times when we are enslaved by our pain and miseries and fail to experience freedom, fulfillment and happiness. Bad, sad, angry or hopeless thoughts cause your body to release chemicals that make you feel physically bad.

The effect of negative thoughts and perception on your body is -

• They increase your heart rate; thus causing the heart to work under pressure and less efficiently.
• They increase your respiratory rate; thus causing hyperventilation and less oxygen delivery to your whole system.
• They increase sweat production and divert blood flow from your hands making them cold and clammy.
• They increase muscle tension leading to headaches and body aches.
• They decrease activity in your brain; thus causing decreased ability to think with clarity & memory, and increased emotional state and depression.
• They cause chronic state of stress; thus decreasing the quality of life.

Compared to these, positive thinking, optimism and gratitude enhance brain function and decision-making skills; thus causing you to be calmer, relaxed, joyful and happy. Choose well always!

To overcome this, you need to visualize positive things happening in your life, like your near and dear-ones supporting you completely, and using positive affirmations effectively for releasing our negative feelings and emotions. It is very important to be relaxed when you are visualizing and affirming.

Exercise: Close your eyes, and sit down or lie down in a comfortable position. Relax completely…take 10 deep breaths and with every count, feel you being relaxed. Now affirm to yourself, ‘People around me love and care for me, their love, gives me strength and courage to handle any life’s problems, I choose to be health and free of pain’.  Along with the affirmations visualize the same positive outcome; as you picture mentally it materializes in your life. As you do this exercise only visualize the positive things, and when encountered by an negative thought or feeling…tell yourself loudly, Stop…whoosh….and breathe out the negativities. See the light at the end of the tunnel, rather than the darkness in it.