Many revolve around religious ceremonies and coming-of-age celebrations.
What marks them as so unique is that they reoccur at the same special place and time and always hold meaning and deep value for the celebrants.
The United States has few rituals anymore. Yes we have Holy Communion and sweet sixteen parties. And for some, the grinding of coffee beans and filling of he automatic drip is a morning ritual they cannot do without. Perhaps it’s not quite as automatic as getting up for work, but over time what’s special about making the first cup can become a little routine.
It’s fair to say that it is a lack of rituals with meaning that makes many Americans feel as if their lives are devoid of something… special.
Click here to discover how you can make healthy lifestyle habits into meaningful (and healthful) daily rituals…
Read this immediately if you’ve ever used
massage to treat painful muscles, or plan to get
a therapeutic massage anytime in the near future
From the Desk of:
Steve Hefferon
I have a confession to make as a massage therapist.
If you’ve ever gotten a massage to treat muscle-pain in your neck & back, legs & hips or some other part of your body… you probably didn’t need to spend the money.
Because there are FOUR MAJOR FLAWS with massage therapy you should know about.
Massage Therapy Flaw #1: Massage is not a one-time fix for muscle pain. You feel great when you get one and for awhile afterwards.
But a week or two goes by and your muscles start to hurt again. For lasting relief you’ll need to go back often, and at $80-$150 a pop massage therapy gets very expensive over time.
Massage Therapy Flaw #2: Because it’s so expensive you put off going for months at a time. Some people almost never get the treatments they need for no other reason than they can’t afford them.
It’s a shame. You shouldn’t have to be Donald Trump to get relief from painful muscles.
Massage Therapy Flaw #3: You’re not getting instant treatment. You have to schedule a session, wait around with painful muscles for days or weeks.
It would be so much better if you could get a deep-tissue massage whenever you want it.
Massage Therapy Flaw #4: You can walk away feeling worse than before the massage. Some people hate getting deep-tissue massages because they feel so bad afterward.
Why? Because aggressive massage creates micro-tears in the muscles, often activating dormant trigger points, causing pain.
In a perfect world you’d have a personal
masseuse CAREFULLY massage away your aches and pains
each and every night…
Well, say hello to a perfect world ….
You’re going to love this.
There is a way to get a “personal masseuse” to give you gentle, deep massages every day of the year - and you don’t have to spend $30,000 to keep him on staff.
I’m talking about a home massage-therapy system you can use right away to melt away the tiny knots in your muscles.
For about 40-cents a day you can get a daily deep-tissue massage to relive life’s aches and pains - with NONE of the drawbacks of traditional massage therapy…
You don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars all year long to get relief… You don’t need to put off getting your massage because it costs so much… You don’t have to wait a month in between massages …
You don’t need to suffer through aggressive massages because you’ll have all the time in the world to get a gentle massage …
Your headaches… neck & jaw pain…
back-pain… joint-pain… even the numbness
in your hands and feet - are all likely caused by trigger-points in your muscles!
Here at The Healthy Back Institute we’ve talked a lot about how trigger points - the tiny knots that form in your muscles - are the source of so many types of pain …
Discovered by President John F. Kennedy’s doctor, trigger points in muscles are increasingly becoming recognized as the cause of up 75% of muscle and tissue pain. Seventy-five percent!
These dime-sized landmines in your tissues cause your muscles to tighten and shorten. And because they tighten your muscles they start to change the way your body moves.
They limit the movement in one muscle causing it to weaken over time.
You’ve probably experienced trigger-point painbefore - here’s how to tell for sure …
Have you ever tried to rub a sore, painful muscle and no matter what you did you couldn’t quite “get” to the painful spot?
Those are trigger points!
It’s called “referred pain” and it’s when the real cause of the pain is a point in the muscle but you FEEL the pain several inches away - so you can never quite find the perfect spot to massage.
I’d like to send you a 90 minute video
and a trigger-point guidebook to show you how to identify your body’s trigger-points
In them you’ll get an atlas of your body’s trigger-points so you can find the (often surprising) points to relieve pain you may have had for years - including …
Trigger-points causing mid-back pain
Trigger-points causing low-back pain
Trigger-points causing upper-back pain
Trigger points causing hip and leg pain
Trigger points causing neck pain
Trigger-points causing shoulder pain
And more!
Plus, you’ll get the home-treatment system that
applies deep pressure to silence your trigger-points
Developed by a board-certified neurological chiropractor, this advanced self-treatment system gives you a massage therapist on call.
Easy to use, it completely relaxes your muscles by using your body weight to apply deep, gentle pressure to trigger-points in your muscles.
Plus, your Trigger Point Self-Treatment System is really like having a small army of therapists to help you because you get special treatment techniques to fully deactivate your trigger points … Gentle Deep-Tissue Massage: If you’re body is sensitive you can use the Variable therapeutic compression technique to get relief without overworking your muscles …
Do-it-Yourself Myofascial Release: Experience amazing relief when you loosen and relax the spider-web of connective tissue running through your muscles …
Fibromyalgia? The Position Release Technique is perfect for you, if regular massage has ever hurt you, this methods is perfect …
Stretch Your Spine: You can even do spinal-traction and decompression with this system to relieve the effects of gravity on your spinal -system …
And that’s just for starters!
Plus your order is 100% RISK-FREE because you have
365 days (a FULL YEAR) to put it to the test…
I know not every solution is for everyone. Something that works miracles for one person doesn’t always help someone else.
That’s why we’re offering this fool-proof guarantee:
Try it out for a year and if at any time you’re not absolutely delighted with the relief you get by having an in-house self-massage system, just return it for a FULL AND COMPLETE REFUND.
Call us now toll-free at 1-800-216-4908 or order your system using our secure online shopping cart.
It’s simple. We’re out to help you, not soak you and we figure if we let you try it for a year you’ll LOVE the way it makes you feel.
Just to recap all the things you’ll get…
You’ll get a 90-Minute video explaining how to find all the trigger points causing you pain…
You’ll get treatment instructions so you know exactly how to get rid of your pain-causing trigger points…
You’ll get a Trigger-Point Guide Book detailing:
Step-by-step pictures of how to treat different types of pain…
A compete trigger-point guide showing over 27 major areas trigger points appear on your body…
How to find treatment points and what to do with them …
A pictorial treatment guide so you can SEE how to treat your painful muscles (this is the key)…
Special therapeutic techniques you can use to get the most out of the system…
The Trigger-Point Treatment Platform with 16 massage “digits” to fit all the nooks and crannies of your muscles to get rid of all types of pain…
Plus, you get a FULL YEAR to try the system out and be 100% confident that you absolutely love using it, or you can your MONEY-BACK.
Since there’s no risk to you, why not give it a shot? Why not get a massage every day? You deserve it! Plus you are going to just love how quickly you’ll be able to silence those nagging aches and pains!
Sincerely,
Steve Hefferon, CMT, PTA
P.S. Don’t take my word for it, ask the folks who’ve already used it…
“Incredible!”
“This system is incredible! I can move, run, and exercise again. It is fantastic to know that I can do something positive to get rid of my pain. I threw out all of my pills. Now I just pop on the system and dig out those trigger points.”
~Cindy T. Macon, GA
“I’m not in constant pain anymore!”
“My life is so much easier to handle without being in constant pain. The system has given me the freedom I was looking for. Everyone needs to try one!”
~Sam M. New York NY
“My whiplash is GONE!”
“Because of a whiplash injury, I had years of chronic upper back and neck pain, but not anymore! Thanks to this unique fantastic little device.”
I just spoke to my mom the other day who has been battling back pain for over a decade now… in fact, it was her initial bout of back pain all those years ago that drove me to find a solution.
I remember thinking “there had to be a better way” and boy was I right. Anyway, she was telling me about a procedure that her doctor recommended and the first thing that jumped out at me was she was willing to do the “quick and easy” treatment before committing to the harder, but more effective alternatives.
While this particular treatment may be effective, the fact is it’s not a sure thing, there are potential side effects, and like most common treatments, it does NOT do anything to address what created the condition in the first place.
Yet she was sold on the idea and placed it higher on her to do list then two other treatments I recommended that were “harder” but had little or no negative side effects.
Now part of this may be because her “doctor” recommended it but part of it is also human nature… we tend to always look for the “easy way” and while this may be good in some situations, it’s bad when it comes to health because most of the time, the quick and easy way is not the most effective… and it’s also often the method which has the most cons or side effects.
As I’ve said many times before, every persons situation is different and the combination of treatments that works for one person may not work for another.
And while my mom has made good progress using my Lose The Back Pain system and other treatments I have recommended to her, she still is not 100%… plus it doesn’t help that she recently slipped and fell (again).
Like most people, she’s looking for that “one thing” that will finally put an END to her pain… but what I’ve found over all these years working with so many people is that it’s pretty rare that just one thing will eliminate all of your pain.
Sometimes it happens, but more often what does the trick is a combination of treatments and therapies… and the more specific they are to your physical situation (the muscle imbalances you have, the condition you’ve been diagnosed with, your emotional state, etc) the better the results you’ll see.
So here’s my list of the
“Top 10 Back Pain Treatments”:
1. Mind-Body Therapy
(hypnosis, emotional freedom therapy - this is far bigger than most people realize)
If you are sitting there right now with pain and have not tried all of the above, get to work. And if you have tried them all, which is highly unlikely, then let me know and I’ll give you a list of even more treatments.
The point is this, the people who get lasting relief are the ones who DON’T STOP until they find the answer. You must be relentless if you want to beat this.
I know it’s not easy but you CAN do this… you, and all others, have the power and ability to heal yourself but it requires determination, focus, hard work, patience, perseverance and most importantly, ACTION. So what are you going to do to make this happen?
Remember, I and the rest of my team are here for you… as well as the thousands of others who visit and share on our discussion forum.
Go make it happen… and I can’t wait to hear of your success!
Jesse
P.S. I love you mom (yes, she reads my email newsletters)
I got this chat Question this morning and I wanted to share it with all of our Athletes with or without back pain…
As you read through it, remember that core strength alone is not the answer… Athletes that do single sport activities are creating muscle imbalances everyday and that is not how world class athletes do it any more…
It takes education, I urge you to study the benefits of having a balanced body…
***Question***
I am an avid cyclist (50 - 100 mile rides) and am wondering if you have specific sport related stretches for cycling - for tight hip flexors, ITB etc.? I am currently experiencing some back pain that is getting better through chiro adjustments, but would like something to prevent future problems.
***Our Chat***
Steven Hefferon “Co-Founder of the Healthy Back Institute”: Find a massage therapist that can do hip flexor release, it is not easily done by your self, it hurts but it will uninhabited your gluts and hamstrings and your performance will improve…
Visitor: So are you saying that your program would not benefit me?
Steven Hefferon “Co-Founder of the Healthy Back Institute”: Sure it would but we also tell people that when you need specific work at a higher level of care we, seek help from the best experts you can, we also say you will need to do BOTH
Visitor: Ok, I guess after the hip flexor release, your program would help maintain flexibility? Does your program increase overall core strength and flexibility?
Steven Hefferon “Co-Founder of the Healthy Back Institute”: Better,, we help you understand how to keep your body in balance from a strength vs strength perspective and a balanced body will make for a better athlete…
Steven Hefferon “Co-Founder of the Healthy Back Institute”: Does that make sense to you? How do you think as time goes on that the next generation of athletes can break world records year after year, I know it part drugs, part believe but also improvements in physical conditioning conditioning that not only creates core strength but does it in a balanced way…
Steven Hefferon “Co-Founder of the Healthy Back Institute”: The closer to prefect athletes become the better they perform, they learn to make them self the best they can be, through study and understanding core principle of preformance, The closer to perfect they can make them selfs the better they will become, do you have to achieve perfection NO but as you study what it takes to get there and as you work towards it all things improve…
Visitor: Makes sense. How much for shipping to Dundas, ON L9H4E4? Please Click Her for more information on creating Physical Balance and improving your Physical Performance with Muscle Balance Therapy…
I got this email today and im sure some of you can relate very will…
***Start of Email***
Thank you for writing to me.
Here are some things I’ve tried - can you tell me if they are good or bad:
drug - skelaxin
Sacro Wedgy - devise to lay on
Sleep with pillow between my legs
used foam roller
water walking
icy hot, aspercreme
heating pad
ice packs
stationary bike
herbs - MSM, joint function, etc
chiropractor
read book - Mind Over Back Pain by John Sarno, MD
use pillow behind my back when sitting
Dr. shot steroids into my back and pain killers 2 weeks ago.
Thank you for your help. I hope someone sees this, and can explain what tickets are,
Arnold
***End of Email***
This was my reply…
There is noting wrong with trying different things and being open minded to experimenting with them..
Everything you have listed can help to some degree, but like anything you need to get to the root cause, and we believe that muscle imbalances are the root cause for most forms of back pain…
Once you get a better grip on the root cause everything else you try will give you a better result and even make you life a little easer…
So if you have tried everything and feel like nothing is going to work, think root cause levels, if you have our program “The Fibro Fix”, in it Dr Fors talks about addressing Fibromyalgia the the Mitochondria level, it does not get any more root level then that, and that is one reason people with Fibromyalgia struggle for so long, they are always nipping at the symptoms, and not addressing the important issues…
Let me give you one more example, my mother went more than a year being misdiagnosed regarding all of the symptoms she was experiencing, in the end she was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism, There are only two treatments for hyperthyroidism, Surgery to remove it or irritated iodine which destroys the Thyroid and then people have to be treated as if you were suffering from Hypothyroidism…
Do you know that the first thing the Dr asked that administered the irritated iodine?
Do you eat FISH? My mother loves fish but my father gets sick at even the smell so my mother has gone the last 40 years without fish…Fish is rich in Iodine and the Thyroid needs Iodine for healthy normal function.
Start today by giving you body what it needs and learn to address the Root Cause Issues early… to avoid the mess…
From the Desk of: 
Step-by-step pictures of how to treat different types of pain…