The lower back

What the hell does this have to do with lower back pain.
Everyone by now knows I’m amongst the tribe of empath’s, ‘sympath’ a more sympathetic word, I would like to introduce. If you think you are one of them, there’s ton’s of information to be found in youtubes, nonsense and great sense. Learning discernment is our sharpening awareness.
So what the heck does this have to do with the lower back.
Well…I want to share an experience with you from the time this sensitivity was already there but the word empath wasn’t in the ether yet. Pre-internet stage.

Had a conversation yesterday about it with my daughter in law. We agreed that stiff lower backs are our cultural phenomenon. EveryBODY seems to have one. So what’s the information hiding there in these structural stiffened muscles. Does it have to do with the control grid?
Did we have to learn to navigate our animal impulses in our education?

A woman visiting my yoga class had an interesting although also a bit sad story she shared with me yesterday before we began with our practices. She had been falling down and had a pain in the lower back for some weeks. She felt it was related to her sister who was going to die. She came happily telling me yesterday that her sore back was over at last! She thanked me for the practices that had been very supportive. Someone had said to her that her lower back was linked with emotions about her sister. I also felt it like now that her sister had died, also a support had fallen away. We are linked with our family in the lower chacra area’s. So now she had to adjust and even more stand (!) on her own.
In previous class, we had been focussing our attention on the lower back area. What does it feel like. Does it feel stiff, dense, or rather porous, can you perceive a color there, how do the tissues feel. Maybe you can feel a slight widening of the area on the in breath.
Focussing our attention on it also has a healing effect.

So, that having said in between, now the story I want to share.

I’m staying in my caravan that stands on the place of my parents in law, on the camping near the dunes. I’m resting.  I hear a sound below the caravan.  The sound of a little animal walking over a few empty glass bottles, laying there in the grass. Then I hear the sound of this animal making a very sudden leap. Somehow this goes together with a movement of the muscles of my lower back I had never experienced before and never ever experienced after again. For a moment, that whole piece of skin, muscles, tissues, everything that’s there is like a hollow piece of skin, away from the bones underneath them. Like a rather big space in between bones and tissues and muscles. This goes together with a feeling of great relieve. All of a sudden, I feel whole, out of one piece. Awake.

Picture comes from:
http://www.wyssyr.com/blog/2014/04/simple-yoga-postures-for-lower-back-pain/