My PRI Inhibition Journey: From "Quietest" to Presenter at the Annual Symposium.
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2021
- While Postural Restoration has a focus on the inhibition of overactive and patterned musculature, underlying our muscular tension is autonomic nervous system tension.
This ANS patterning is based off of perceived threat.
This threat is called "life" and tension is a result of how we respond to life's events.
You can't just expect bodily pain to respond to PRI techniques if autonomic nervous system tension can't be inhibited.
But what if that tension is coming from life's events? Then what? When life overwhelms you, you may end up over-inhibited, fearful and restricted.
In turn, this negative mental energy inhibits the flow of our body. Our natural rhythms become inhibited.
Becoming less inhibited, less fearful, and more positive minded will go a long way to healing bodily pain.
This is just amazing - period. I do love those stories. Because I see so much of myself in all of these!! Ron taking notes from your seminar!!! Dudee!!! If this isn't a dream I don't know what is. Saving people lives like creazy, bringing light, brings tears. Me being humiliated and made fun of, shamed to death - almost killed me in the process. Attempt of trying to escape those feelings through emotional compensations almost killed me. One of the heaviest burdens to carry is a deep sense of shame that brought about my PEC situation. Feeling like a failure, or a victim, after all people did to me - that's one of mine biggest inhibitions to let go off (because people treat or see me as an old me; it's tought because it's my working enviorment). Your recordrings about "don't be a victim" (+ opioids vid + fear of pain vid, where you talk about your past) - this old videos of yours it's what keeps me alive during my worst days. Love it all. You saved my life from suacide sharing knowledge about PRI, and also gave me HOPE (that's a big one) that you CAN move forward, that you CAN have some agency of control, that there ARE tools, that there ARE people, that there ARE techniques, that I am not alone in this. Your salsa experience Neal pushed me to try it on my own (as "patho" PEC I thought it cannot be done) which brought about unexpected joy and melted my old inhibition that I was too scared or too shy to dance. Screw it, I did it. It's all because of YOU!! Thank YOU!!
You're the best, Maciej! Keep moving forward and ignore the "haters". Not sure there is a word for "haters" in Polish :). Plus Ultra!
@@NealHallinan It is a word for it. Tough word.
Man, this hits home with me. I’m 25 and suffering from chronic lateral shift for the past 10 months or so. Everyday is a struggle and it’s very hard to get out of these patterns and pain. Definitely feel like life’s fading away and my physical and mental health are declining. I really hope that I can heal myself and get back to a normal life again. Thank you for sharing your journey, it’s inspiring to say the least.
It can be done. I hope you have a professional working with you, though. It's not easy to do alone.
Great content and message, Neal. I often repeat to myself the Amit Ray quote, “You are not your thoughts; you are the observer of your thoughts.” Thanks for the great videos and turning me on to PRI. I appreciate all you do, sir. 👊🏼
Your videos have really helped to put things into context. I've been an abused child and suddenly last month both my parents died. It's a difficult time for me and the relief that your exercises bring to my chronic lower back pain is sometimes the difference between life and death for me. Trying to stay hopeful
I have been dealing with cervical instability for 10 years and was told it was all in my head. I developed repetitive T8 syndrome and superior T4 syndrome after a atlas orthogonist inproperly adjusted my atlas. So glad I found PRI and your videos help understand the patterns! After the adjustment I went in to tachycardia and became agoraphobic overnight. I had to relearn myself day by day and small victories has gotten me to be able to go back into stores and public places. Currently working on getting out of the compensation patterns and allowing my skull to expand.
You're a great guy Neal, it's a pleasure listening to you.
Thank you for the very kind comment!
Neal you really understand what life is. You teach me more than just PRI. thank you so much
Neal, I am very grateful that I've discovered you and your content. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and your story and bringing emotion into the picture. I'm still early in my posture/movement journey and very new to your channel, but I'm not sure I'm ever connected with a personal story so closely. I expect my left eye is also at the root of much of the chronic tension and problematic movement patterns I've developed, and it's just so obvious to me now how that has shaped my body, my social experiences, and my perception of myself. You've already helped me shift my perspective in a way that has had immediate impacts on my life, giving me some short-term relief of my tension and positivity about long-term prospects of really 'grounding' myself in all aspects of the word. It's funny, I've always been fascinated by phenomenology and majored in philosophy in college focusing on visual experience and illusions. Looking back now it's like my brain was screaming at me "you have a problem, don't you see? Fix it!"'. I can't believe I never put it together myself.
I'm happy to hear that this channel has been helpful for you.
Thanks Neal for sharing this. I feel very much identified!
This is life changing Neal! Honestly I love seeing your transformation as a person and can see and sense your happiness and true joy that you are having!
Really enlightening video! Please keep them coming! I really appreciate them 🙏🏻. Thank you!
Thanks, Christian!
Great analogies, Neal, and enjoyed hearing about your success stories! Like the comparison to CBT as well. Thanks for having introduced PRI to this exercise physiologist. I keep trying to find ways of incorporating the PRI theories to the work I do in cardiac rehab. Thx again!! 🤓
Ah, great, we need more exercise physiologists in the PRI world!
Great video. Love it Neal. Honest and raw!
Thank you.
Thank u thank you. Gotta luv the choice to flow.
The power of finding your Flow is a powerful thing.
The antidote to fear is curiosity. Get curious about your fears. Fear and curiosity engage different parts of the brain, limbic vs pre frontal cortex. The switch can retrain your brain and induce flow.
This is great. Courage defined. Bravo. More please , Neal.
Thank you.
So true. 😊 I recognize myself so much in your story . Thankyou 🙏I kind of knew it on a deeper level, but at the same time ,I have been working on Healing myself for many years .I have the book from Louise Hay where she talks a lot about those things ,that every illness has a cause that derived from how you think . I thought the worst was past me. And then all these inhibitions started ...
so I really don’t know what more I can do .
But I also know,that I still don’t do what I want ,and sometimes even don’t know what I want . There are things I have done in the past that I stopped doing ,like dancing ,I love Salsa! ❤️But because of a trauma when I was walking home alone one night ,I started being more of a recluse. I was always also a person who did not like big gatherings ,and was inhibited. Except for when something interested me ! So many aha-moments 😍
Thankyou for this ,I needed that kick in the butt. 😂am going to search for the books you recommended .
And I want to applaud you for how far you’ve come ,it is not a small thing at all !🌞
Congratulations! 💥💐🎉
That gives hope to all of us .
Thank you for the comment. There is a quote from Jack Kornfield along the lines of "We don't have to improve ourselves, we just have to remove whatever is blocking our heart". I find that to be true.
Fear "inhibits" us. It's always fear (at first rationally, but long term is becomes irrational since conditions that created the initial fear have changed) at the root of our inhibitions and self-doubt.
Luv this video, very good explaining, thank you.
You're welcome. Thanks for the comment.
Raw, honest and inspiring video. Thank you for this Neal😊
You're welcome, Ivona. I'm relatively sure my extreme patterning was due more to emotional "processing" than physical issues (although the uncorrected vision played a big role)
@@NealHallinan I can definitely relate to this myself!
Very deep thoughts. I would very much like to see your report, is there a video somewhere? Also, I would like to add on my own behalf, sports are very popular in Russia, I was engaged in swimming all my childhood for 10 years, our coach, always taught to overcome my fears and not let them control me) These tips have helped me achieve a lot. You are a very sincere Neil, thank you!
The things that inhibit us.. the things that stabilize us. Things we have to let go of. We need to de-stabilize in order to return to stability.
Correct!
Hey Neal, would you consider making a video on foot/ankle nerve impingement ala tarsal tunnel syndrome and how it relates to PRI? You've done plenty on foot pronation and arches, granted, but it's very difficult to reestablish good patterns if there's a conscious effort to keep the foot unloaded all the time due to pain.
To be honest, it's not something I have any experience with. Try exaggerating your arm swing (straight forward and straight back) and see if it changes how you experience your feet.
Yesterday I was doing an exercise on the foam roller where the foam roller ran parallel up my spine, it was an exercise to show up unevenness in the strength of the muscles between left and right... turns out my left side is weaker as I was unstable doing the exercise on the left... right side was easy. It made me think of pri and wondered if the left aic right bc pattern was the cause of this hectic difference?
BTW I get exactly what you're saying about being a teenager with too many inhibitions and no achievement or so I thought. Thank you for verbalizing this... i find that everytime I name a trauma I can release it.
The right side will almost always be easier. PRI techniques that are difficult on the left side are astonishingly easy for the right. Naming trauma, or stress, is a great way to release things!