I know it can be disconcerting when your body flares up; it might feel like you’re powerless, but that’s not true. Your body is, however, trying to get your attention.

Good thing you’re listening.

Learning how to navigate a flare-up is going to be a powerful tool to better understand your body and know how to respond when symptoms arise. When you can learn to gracefully respond to a flare-up, your relationship to pain drastically changes because you know you can handle any problem your body throws at you.

Take a deep breath and know that with this program and what you’ve been practicing, you already have the tools you need to help you through this.

The best thing you can do is keep practicing your current movement routine. Lean on your movement sequence, only this time, scale back all of your effort, intensity, and range of motion during your movements.

Whatever led to this flare-up pushed you past your functional capacity and it will be necessary to ease yourself through this experience by meeting your body where it’s at. If you feel like your routine caused the flare-up, know that the same thing that seemed to cause the flare-up is often the very thing that can help you get out of it.

Write that down. It’s incredibly important.

If you’re noticing intense emotions during this time, this is the perfect chance to utilize a lesson from the mindset course. Take some time to get into a comfortable position and push play. This will help you transmute what you’re feeling and create some space between you and the sensations.

We also have a chapter dedicated to this topic in our e-book, Breaking Your Limits. Read Chapter 10 to understand what’s happening and exactly what to do when you’re going through this experience.

If you don’t have your copy of the ebook, you can get it here.

“How you handle a flare-up will ultimately determine how successful you will be at changing your body and getting the results you want.”

– Chapter 10, Breaking Your Limits