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Pain tolerance is not something you're born with, it's something you learn. With practice you can get better and better at doing this until your tolerance increases and you have less and less fear of pain. Whether physical or emotional it is always possible to breathe through the sensations and watch them pass. The fear and tension we create in our minds about how bad the pain is, really is worse than the pain itself. Your first natural reaction to discomfort and pain is to try and make it stop.īut the thing about pain is that it always passes. The tools for doing this are - your breath and your awareness. To manage and even transform and change the most painful experiences into opportunities for growth.
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#Sitting pigeon how to#
What yoga offers are practices that can help, not to remove pain, but to learn how to deal with it. So much of our modern life is set up to insure that we don't have to encounter pain.īut unfortunately no matter what scientific advances there are, we will all, at some point, have to deal with pain.
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The intensity of pain that comes with injury, medical conditions, grief, heartbreak and loss, is something that we all dread and we do everything in our power to avoid. The reason that we keep repeating these challenging, uncomfortable stretches is because the benefits go way beyond releasing your tight lower back. You can hear the groans round the room when I say we are going to spend a few minutes stretching in pigeon. Pigeon pose has a bit of a bad rep in yoga, because it's so uncomfortable. Pigeon pose is a simple stretch you can do while sitting to release tight hip flexors, which when looser, will release tightness and pressure in the lower back. There are loads of health problems caused by sitting, and back problems are up there at the top. He uses it because apparently sitting is the new smoking! "Most of us spend way too much time sitting" my doctor recently said when I commented on him working from a 'standing desk'. Pigeon pose and how being comfortably uncomfortable can help you deal with pain