Picking or Healing?
I have this chronic pain that occurs in the right side of my neck and into my right shoulder blade. Sometimes, usually when I'm not expecting it, the pain delves further down my ribs and into my right hip. Regular massage, chiropractic, walking, and stretching, all help to manage the pain. But sometimes, I'll be sitting watching tv or lying in bed reading, and I'll be pestered by this insistent pain. So I do what people naturally do...I extend one arm uncomfortably and attempt to access the point of pain. But while I'm doing this, my body is contorting in all sorts of angles that cannot be good for my overall posture. But the pain is so annoying...I just want it to go away! Why can't I just access the area and not have to feel it any more? But it never goes this way. It feels like a relief for a few seconds. But what I'm doing is in fact just reinforcing the problem. I am mentally and physically recognizing the pain and accentuating it by my self massage....