My regeneration phase (little to no training) has been going on for a whole month now and the sacrum/lumbar spine pain has still not completely subsided. Actually, I’m mainly in the program because of my neck problems and ME/CFS diagnosis and now there is just something ‚shamelessly‘ added that wasn’t there before.

Admittedly, this is deeply frustrating at first. Pain is grueling, but maybe it’s because something old in me is simply worn down when it is so noticeable now.
Something is knocking on my inner door and I’m following…

In this article, a few words about bone torsion and the magic bone juice…

What if our bones were much more important than just being our skeleton?! And what if bones were less rigid and much more permeable than most people assume?!

‚Magic bone juice‘ was so gloriously named because it has a direct influence on our cells, on our power plants (the mitochondria and our DNA). According to the ‘Original Therapy’ legend, the more ‘magical’ bone juice is produced in our bones, the more organic and precise our movement pressure is distributed to the bones involved in the movement. A person who learns from birth to control his bones and muscles organically and species-appropriately produces good juice, which supplies the cells well and makes them strong. This keeps the nervous system supple and resistant. Of course, fresh air, healthy food, clean water and a loving environment etc. also play their important roles in this… The soul and the inner spirit anyway…

But now let’s get back to something that we have at best every day; our locomotion!

Organic locomotion rocks!

If we have not learned to move organically and in a species-appropriate way and have also collected accidents and traumas, for example, then our musculoskeletal system is exposed to improper loads and compensations (improper tensions). The magic bone juice is no longer produced in sufficient quantities and a degenerative chain reaction on cells, nerves, muscles, etc. takes its course. Broken down in the simplest way, our muscles and fascia calcify, our connective tissue slowly dries out. The cells report alarm and our nervous system (wants to protect us) and sends protective voltages and pain.

Once our nervous system is properly attacked and sensitized, our hormone balance, our digestion and so much more in us becomes imbalanced. Our pain body is permanently activated.

The path I am taking now is an attempt to bring my musculoskeletal system back into its species-appropriate functionality as much as possible.

It is first and foremost a physical path.

In the last few months, I have shown my body a few of its old compensation patterns and also shown it new ways. Well, my body is offended. The old compensations don’t work so well anymore when it tries to restore it’s old patterns. However, the new movement sequences and structural positioning are not yet consolidated.

Well, welcome to the intermediate phase, a place that I will certainly get to know more often until my new structure consolidates and knows how to move more organically.

Because even if I am always mindful with my postures and patterns during the day and knowing better and better where I can start, the night and sleep often bring the ‘old’ scheme back into play and challenges me.

Of course human!

I now envy people who have a natural physical posture and a good structure. Because I now know that I have been carrying hypermobility and protective tensions in my body structure for a very long time.
Since my childhood I guess.

We humans are inherently very complex natural beings, but nowadays we unfortunately live less and less species-appropriately. We have unnatural light around us and thus an unnatural sleep rhythm. We eat denatured food processed umpteen times. We are too much indoors and too little in nature. We stare at screens for a large part of our day and see far too much. Sensory overload at all levels has its price. While a body with a good structure can deal with it better, this is a great challenge for a body that is stuck in compensation mode and whose nervous system is already under constant strain.

I’m learning to be patient and to pick up my body right where it is right now. Don’t overwhelm it and still reach out to it and show it new ways. For me, despite the ME/CFS diagnosis, I feel very clearly that there has to be movement so that I can get back into activation, so that my system has a chance to re-calibrate itself.

And I may wonder that our bones (the last thing that is usually left of us when we pass away) are so important and so special. I wonder about myself and how little I have dealt with these things on a bio-mechanical level in my life so far.

But better now than never.

… and how I managed to get this blog up and running despite all my current frailty, why isolated massages, stretches and nerve regulation don’t really get us to our goal and where I get my confidence that I will be pain-free and naturally flexible again… more about that in the upcoming blog post …