There’s a guy on Reddit with a 27-step morning routine for back pain.
It starts with hip hinges. Ends with nerve flossing. In between: dead hangs, plow pose, calf release with a butter knife.
He’s not alone.
You’ve probably met this guy—maybe in the mirror.
People with mind-body pain aren’t lazy or gullible. They’re often the opposite: intelligent, diligent, determined.
They’ve done the stretches. Bought the chair. Watched the influencers.
They’ve read the books, tried traction tables, bounced on a yoga ball like it was a prescription.
And yet the pain remains.
Which raises the real question:
What if the problem isn’t a lack of effort—but too much of it?
When “Fixing” Becomes the Problem
There’s a principle in modern pain science called neuroplasticity—the brain changes based on what we focus on.
Usually, that’s good. It’s how we learn. How we recover. How we adapt.
But it also explains a sinister loop:
The more you fear and monitor your pain…
The more brain real estate it takes up.
The more it hurts.
The more you fear and monitor it.
Suddenly your day is organized around flare-ups and symptom analysis.
Not because you’re crazy—but because you’re trying.
But your brain doesn’t know that. It just interprets all this attention as danger.
“This must be serious.
Let’s keep the alarm on.”
And that’s how chronic pain becomes chronic.
Even Smart Doctors Get Caught
I once listened to a podcast with a brilliant spine expert. Three hours of muscular chains, diagnostic grids, kinetic nuance. He’s clearly a genius.
But if it takes a PhD to explain the diagnosis… can we really trust the fix?
Turns out that perfecting your core or doubling down on adjustments doesn’t heal chronic pain. In fact, systematic reviews show these approaches perform no better than general movement—or placebo—over time.
Because the pain isn’t coming from the body.
It’s coming from the fear.
A Better Way Forward
In my experience, healing doesn’t feel like mastering a new routine. It feels like letting go of on old one. It’s not about managing the pain—it’s about removing the reason it’s there.
That’s the difference between chasing symptom relief… and feeling like yourself again.
The Makepeace Method doesn’t give you new rituals to obsess over. It gives you the one thing you haven’t been allowed to have:
A clear and simple diagnosis.
Because when you stop fearing the pain,
stop tracking it,
stop believing it means you’re broken…
The nervous system finally stands down.
That’s why so many people feel better on Day One.
We’re not adding anything.
We’re subtracting.
Source:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0052082
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