My favorite sentence he (F.M.) used to say:
"The time will come when you will be able to trust your feeling---when that time comes you won't want to because you will have something so much more reliable which will take you into the sort of change you want."
Marjory Barlow
An Examined Life
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As you know, I have a reckless inner experimenter. One experiment that was somewhat successful for me in a twisted way was that I modified a Nordic track to experiment with walking. My posture improved dramatically through my torso, but I wound up with back pain. It wasn't anything I couldn't live with but it still bothered me because I had rarely had back pain my entire life. The pain told me I had made changes but it taunted me because I did not understand exactly what I had missed in my approach. I continued using my Nordy and the pain continued and then one day, I got another idea having to do with the sacrum and the twist that originates in the spine out of the sacrum. My exploration of the Nordic track had come from the work of Grakovetsy, a Canadian back pain research who wrote the book, The Spinal Engine. His thesis revolves around the lumbo dorsal fascia. Once I added chronic sacral tension in my body awareness the pain disappeared. I believe I have hit on the right principal. As much as I gained from my working on the Nordy and the improvement of my torso tone, I had missed the real culprit associated with my lower back pain. My feelings were trustworthy but they were not all that nice so to speak. The change I made was more based on an idea. that has brought me a deeper more lasting change and the idea keeps working for me.