Dear Esther: Stack sitting and tall standing gave me almost immediate pain relief and although the stretchlying and stretchsitting really didn't do anything for me I kept them up hoping something might work itself loose. Last night I fell asleep stretchlying and was startled awake by what I thought was a punch between my shoulder blades but turned out to be my spine popping as my breath expanded into my upper ribs, followed by two long vibrating crunches in my chest and wow, did my back ever lengthen after that.
I got up this morning without my usual jaw pain from nightly tooth grinding episodes and the perpetual tender trigger points in my chest were gone. On my way to work I noticed that I didn't experience the usual burning feeling I get from breathing in cold air, I wasn't sniffing in air as I realized I was doing previously the breath was just flowing gently and slowly on its own. Needless to say when I tried stretchsitting today, I felt my spine lengthen.
Thanks again!
I got up this morning without my usual jaw pain from nightly tooth grinding episodes and the perpetual tender trigger points in my chest were gone. On my way to work I noticed that I didn't experience the usual burning feeling I get from breathing in cold air, I wasn't sniffing in air as I realized I was doing previously the breath was just flowing gently and slowly on its own. Needless to say when I tried stretchsitting today, I felt my spine lengthen.
Thanks again!
16 hours 17 min ago
09/10/2008 - 8:36pm