1 Single Step to Stop Your iPhone & Laptop Create or Worsen Your Chronic Pain

We live in a society that demands that we use technology if we want to keep our jobs, our friends and sometimes even our family …

Oh, come on, you know you love to stalk your friends, crashes, the girl/boy next door and your ex’s! Busted!

We feel like we belong, like we are part of a community.

And God forbid you don’t answer your boss’ email within the hour. Did I say hour? What, your phone did’t ding the second you got that email or text from da boss? You’re in trouble noooow

All joking aside though, we are all ruled by technology. If you aren’t, then how come you are watching/reading this.

How does technology cripple us with chronic pain?

• Texting Thumb

• RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury)

• carpal tunnel

• fibromyalgia

• back pain

• shoulder pain

• tight hips

• headaches/migraines

• the list goes on and on

Our posture start looking more an more Ape-like: hunched over, collapsed chest, forward shoulders, chicken neck.

I’m sure you already know how bad all this is for us.

What can we do about it?

Here’s the 1 simple step to STOP your iPhone/Laptop/Tablet or iPad exacerbate your chronic pain:

*** Open Your Chest and Take a Deep Breath ***

You’ve heard this a hundred times? Maybe. Have you listened to it? Most of you did not. I didn’t for the longest time.

Let me walk you through the logic of it and show you how the pen is mightier than a sword especially when it brings life changing knowledge!

When you open your chest and breathe deeply, you open your (most likely) collapsed thoracic area and particularly the lower part of your lungs — which was constricted by your forward posture.

The notorious vagus nerve — the king of the parasympathetic nervous system which brings relaxation and healing — has an intimate connection to this part of your lungs. Inflating the lower part of your lungs will tickle the vagus nerve which in return activates the parasympathetic nervous system.

Result? Relaxation, healing, serotonin and bliss=> all busters of chronic pain

The more you do it the better for your posture and for your chronic pain!

Do you want more proof?

Amy Cuddy, the Harvard Business School social psychologist is famous for a TED talk highlighting her studies on power poses and the production of serotonin which kills stress (serotonin annihilates the stress hormone — cortisol), builds confidence and improves moods.

So, let’s stand up or sit up straight, open our chests like victorious warriors and breath deeply through the nose (another little tip on activating the parasympathetic nervous system).

Open your chest! Breathe in, hold, let it out! Repeat!