Aches and pains

The next time you ache,
place your nail directly where it hurts
and explore

Science was wrong about the location of most pain.
Grooming proves its source is not below the skin but in the folds of the skin itself.

Cutaneous pain

Grooming is linked to physical pain.
Every human knows pain.
You hurt somewhere every day, but some days are filled with suffering.
Your pains grow as you grow older.

Defense mechanism

Pain is there for a good reason.
Without it, you would not remove your hand from fire.
Without pain, you would bruise and destroy your body quite fast.
Your body is telling you what to do and what not to do.
It knows just how much it can take of each element: heat, cold, pressure, puncture, friction, sun exposure, water, ...
If at any moment you don’t follow its rules, you’re in pain.

How pain works

Nerve endings and specialized receptors all over your body are feeling your every move.
If your skin is aggressed, they transmit pain signals to your brain.
The skin surface doesn’t have to be harmed for you to feel pain.
For example, pinching your skin or even just pressing the edge of your nail on it creates pain.

Origin of the pain

Where does it hurt?
Why is it hurting?

Very often the answer is obvious.

You've hit yourself.
You have burned yourself.
You've cut yourself.
...

Pain of unknown origin

At other times, the reasons for the pain’s presence aren’t so obvious:
-The pain can be so small you don’t even bother to think about   it.
-It can hurt you enormously, but you can’t find out why.
You give your own personal answers to all those nagging pains, but you may be quite wrong.
Science itself can be wrong.

Science is mistaken about pain

Who needs science to explain a cut?
That can be explained.
But what about your everyday aches and pains? Such as:
-Headaches
-Neck aches
-Shoulder aches
-Back aches
-Belly aches
-Leg and knee aches
-Aching hips
-Aching feet
-Aching articulations and joints
-...

Science sometimes admits it doesn’t know the answers.
Science sometimes gives the wrong answers.

Misunderstood types of pain

We are told that there are three types of physical pain:
-Cutaneous pain: Caused by injury to the skin’s surface such as   cuts, minor burns or lacerations.
-Somatic pain: Originating from the bones, muscles, tendons and   ligaments, mostly at articulations.
-Visceral pain: Comes from your organs.

Most nerve endings and receptors
are in the skin

Your skin is packed with nerve endings and receptors.
Muscles, joints and organs have few compared to the skin.
The pain they produce is dull and widely spread, in comparison to the localized stinging sensation of skin pain.

Mislabeled cutaneous pain

Most of what is thought to be somatic pain is in fact cutaneous pain.
The pain comes from the folds and their crossings.
Everybody on this planet thinks their pain comes from beneath their skin.
It's surprising to see that no one checks with their fingers.
If your knee is aching, you think the bones, the cartilage or maybe the muscles are damaged.
They're all fine.
You have "skin of the knee" ache.

The wrong reaction to pain

Suppose you do a movement repeatedly such as moving your arm up and down.
After a while, pain will appear at a specific place.
You obviously think that the pain is muscular.
Well, revise your thinking, the pain is in the skin.
Put your nail into that spot. Slowly explore and dig.
You will feel unpain, let it guide you.
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You’re walking around and your knee starts hurting?
You’re supposed to stop and groom the pain away.

Folds and crossings are painful

Folds are like continuously pinching your skin.
Crossings start out the same, but become pain monsters since the tension from their folds travels down to them.
Just one painful crossing can ruin your whole day.

Articulations can’t hurt,
they don’t feel

Articulations are poorly equipped in nerve endings and receptors.
They only hurt when badly forced out of position.

Your skin has entangled itself into the articulation and is now caught inside.
That’s what hurts.
Your articulations were conceived to withstand at least three times the wear and tear you have put them through.
They are new.

Somatic vs cutaneous pain

Real somatic muscle pain is diffused over an area.
It occurs only once in a while when a muscle is used more than previously.
If you experience a stinging, pinching and localized sensation, then it is cutaneous pain.

Folds caught onto the muscles

The skin attaches itself to the muscle at the positions where there is the most mobility below it.
Then, anytime you do a movement, you pull on the fold.
Repeatedly doing an action causes a pointed, stinging pain.
Check that pain location and you will find a fold crossing.
Even muscular spasms, such as cramps, happen at fold crossings.

Folds caught onto the bones

Folds go up your spine and follow every detail, going in and out, around and beneath every structure on their path.
Folds attach themselves to ledges and rough corners of your skeleton.
The skin becomes pinned down to the bone with no mobility.
Check for yourself how free your skin is below your knees.

Headaches

Since your head is so much more folded than your body, the skin’s tension over your skull will cause pain.
Every time you have turned your head in your life, you have made folds in the back of your neck.
Massive fold crossings have developed there putting pressure on the horizontal folds that circle your head at eye-nose level.
Headaches have several causes, bad eating, sleeping, position or stress to name a few, but these result in higher pressure in your head affecting the neck, temple or eyebrow areas where the fold crossings create the pain.
Once these are groomed, the same causes do not end up in pain anymore.

Revising your views

It will certainly take you some time to test this out and change your thinking.
In my case, over 95% of my aches and pains were caused by folds and their crossings all over my body.
I had to revise and change my previous reasoning about each problem I had.

Degrees of pain

You have your personal tolerance to pain.
You can differentiate between hurting a little and hurting a lot.
But where does pain start? What is the minimum it takes before you say it hurts?
What about an itch? A sting?
Is that pain for you?
Is a minor discomfort an ache?

Your pain threshold

Let’s call the level where pain starts for you: your pain threshold.
Generally, you ignore what is below it and slowly wake-up to what is above.

Your pain threshold may change depending on external and internal pressures, such as stress or being tired.

Recurring aches and pains

Your pain returns often to the same places?
It is then called "chronic pain".
Over and over, it is caused by the same fold crossings.
The pain they produce comes and goes because of variations in blood and internal pressures and changes in the surrounding skin tension.
Sometimes it is bad, sometimes livable, sometimes there is no pain.
You only notice it when it goes past your pain threshold.

Variation in skin tension

Your skin mirrors your physical and mental condition.
Bad digestion, lack of sleep, stress, ..., even natural events, such as menstruations, are reflected in your daily skin condition.
The skin often becomes swollen, increasing the tension on the fold crossings.
External conditions, such as atmospheric pressure, humidity, temperature, ... cause substantial changes in your skin.
Above all, your daily actions and gestures, even while you sleep, challenge your existing fold crossings.
Even holding a strange position for just a few minutes may ruin their balance.
An irritated crossing may hurt a few days while it builds new protection.

Humans raise their pain threshold
all their life

You try not to let the pain annoy you.
You go through your activities in spite of it.
Without noticing it, you are raising your pain threshold continuously.
At least, you have peace until it is reached.
Because of a complete lack of grooming, the pain level you feel increases all through your life .
You continuously raise your threshold to compensate.
It is called the weight of the years.

Re-lowering your pain threshold

Low level pain is a warning.
It must be considered and analyzed logically.
Actions to stop the pain's expansion must be taken immediately.
As soon as you ignore an itch, sting, twitch, ... you raise your pain threshold.
You become insensitive.

Tolerance to pain

Pinch the skin of your forearm at various locations with your nails.
Feel the pain?
Good!
Now keep the pressure on a pinch for several seconds.
Feel how the pain fades.

Pain attacks

Most of the time, the pain level you feel from a particular fold crossing remains below your pain threshold.
Then, your actions challenge the integrity of the protecting structure the crossing has developed.
You’re in pain.
It may take hours or days for the tensions to redistribute.
The structure has to be repaired and solidified with a new epidermis layers and possibly locking folds.
You grow accustomed to the discomfort.
Sooner or later the pain retreats below your threshold.
These attacks usually lengthen and deepen all your life.
But the duration and severity of each attack depends more on :
-The intensity, force and excentricity of the actions that cause the   attack.
-The particular structural evolution of the challenged crossing(s).

Knowing why you hurt

When you groom a spot on your body that has been nagging you periodically for years, you find out why it was hurting.
You then realize that all your rational behind this pain was wrong.
You become empowered that you can solve the problem.
This leads to a sense of relief because you understand your ailment. Your confidence in your health and capacities increases.