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Were you bullied as a kid? I lived in a rural community back in the 70s. Kids roamed the neighborhood freely. We played hide-and-go seek late into the night. We skinned our knees, we stubbed our toes while running around barefoot, AND we had to learn how to protect ourselves from the neighborhood bully. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember running home crying to my dad, telling him what the bully had done. He was an old school military guy. His answer was pretty simple: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou have to beat the hell out of the bully and
show him<\/em> who\u2019s boss\u2014or he\u2019ll<\/em> never stop picking on you.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believed my dad\u2014 simply because he was <\/i>my father.<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I eventually left home to learn about life on my own. Bullies continued to exist through all phases of life. As for the \u201cbeat the hell out of the bully philosophy,\u201d I\u2019ve come to realize that 99.9% of the time, there are better ways to hold your ground and still win the war. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why this blog post? <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m going to teach you how I get great results with chronic pain.<\/strong> Chronic pain is just like the bully in the neighborhood from my childhood. He<\/i> is aggressive, demanding, intimidating, and mean! He<\/i> targets the areas of your body where you are weak\u2014attempting to take control. When you are physically and mentally exhausted from the pain the bully is causing, the naturally tendency is to want to beat him up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if you do, you won\u2019t get great longterm results. He\u2019ll just come back. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do I know? I\u2019ve learned through experience. Once I learned the secret for resolving chronic pain<\/strong>, everything changed. Chronic pain is my favorite thing to treat\u2014because I\u2019m good at it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow along and I\u2019ll teach you how to get REALLY GREAT results too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chronic Pain = The Bully<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When you were a kid, you thought that you had no control over the bully in the neighborhood. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, now that you are an adult, you have so much wisdom. Now, you understand that that the bully has a lot of underlying issues with stress, trauma, family dysfunction, relationships, and poor self-esteem. It\u2019s no wonder beating him up never worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the secret\u2026<\/strong><\/em> You don\u2019t have to beat the bully up to get him to leave\u2013but you do have to outsmart him!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lessons on the Massage Table<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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As a young massage therapist, I thought my job was to \u201cbeat the hell out of the bully\u201d with deep tissue work. Patients were desperate. I thought that if I focused the entire hour on their PAIN, I was doing a great job. Patients loved me. They came back over and over again. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over and over again is key.<\/strong> Even with deep tissue work, the pain (aka the BULLY) always came back. I was working really hard, damaging my body in the process, yet I wasn\u2019t getting longterm results. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took me a few years, but eventually I figured it out what I was doing wrong. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lessons as an Acupuncture Student<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Learning acupuncture points and pathways changed everything for me. I remember doing a massage while I was still an acupuncture student. I was working on typical shoulder tension: knotted, ropey, tight, stubborn. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A light bulb went on: \u201cUse acupressure to treat the points on the pathway first!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The results were magical. I did body work on the pathway and then I went back to work on the shoulder. Magic happened that day! The BULLY melted away like butter. I literally felt the shoulder tension resolve right under my fingertips\u2014easily! <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I realized that I didn\u2019t need to beat up the bully to resolve the pain, everything changed. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through years of working on chronic pain and continued study of the dynamics of acupuncture, I have developed a theory that matches my approach to acupuncture treatment<\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Analogy: The Bully in the Neighborhood<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you have a bully in the neighborhood, you have to be smarter than the bully. I\u2019m going to share two scenarios. The first scenario is how I approached treatment in my earlier years. The second scenario is how I approach treatment now. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scenario #1: <\/span><\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You have a bully in your neighborhood that hangs out in the cul-de-sac. He likes it there. He\u2019s been there for a LONG time. You decide that today is the day that you are fed-up with the bully, so you go in and take action. You beat the bully up, and you win. The bully leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well kind of\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bully doesn\u2019t really know how to get out<\/b> of the neighborhood. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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