From the jaw and neck, to the abdomen and pelvis, all the way down into my legs and feet, your channel has been describing the last 7 years of chronic pain down to the details. I have to thank you and thank God for sharing this information.
Yeah, when you look at the way the body was "engineered" as a load-bearing "breathing machine" it really makes it obvious that God is real and He can heal our bodies through their correctly intended design.
THANK YOU! 11 years of dragging myself from neurologists to psychiatrists and then to psychologists, explaining that my head, throat and neck are in constant tension and that I have DPDR and NO ONE knew how to help or explain it. Pure shame. And then I find an explanation on YT, of all places! F-ing unbelievable!
The Green Knight I know you posted awhile ago but I got some osteopathic work done, cranial sacral where the therapist move the bones in my skull and he released probably about 37 years of tensions and problems I’ve been experiencing and I’ve had the same problems you describe. But all along it was a problem w too much tension in my face. Sounds strange but even my eyesight is better along w my blood circulation. I can actually balance on my feet. It’s truly a miracle. Just thought I’d share.
@@timetraveler6977 Thanks, my situation is improving in exactly the same way but gradually with muscle relaxants and massages. In my case, menstrual pain has also disappeared completely!
Wow, amazing insight and helps connect the dots around the power of the vagus nerve and the nervous system -- it's survival mode vs. the body feeling safe to perform, trust, thrive etc. I've had hip / pelvic rotation issues for YEARS and made progress with chiro, meditative mind body work, foam rolling, functional fitness, etc but the problem never fully goes away, especially with the unconscous posture twisting. Felt a shift with Neal's feet technique. Neck to feet, it all connects. Thank you!
I am glad for you...could you explain how work this techniqe, please...I did not understand...should I stay on right heal or what? Thank you and God bless 😊
Okay this is literally what I have needed to hear to reaffirm my journey of adjusting my posture which in turn brought up so much unhealed trauma and coping mechanisms emotionally and physically in my body. Thank you for this and please make more videos about this
This is an unrecognised , serious health complication which merits far more study by all medical professionals and by the public and recognition on a par with cancer and Covid for its debilitating effect on the mind and body . Thank you. I will try to get the book to pass onto them for further help and understanding !
Dude! As massage therapist, I am seeing a huge percentage of my clientele locked in this pattern. 🤯 This book just jumped to the top of my reading list. Very cool stuff.
Hi Katie. The book is great. But as I state in the video, what the author describes in regards to the neck is part of a larger pattern of the entire body, which unfortunately he doesn't recognize. I'd recommend the Postural Restoration Institute's primary courses for a better understanding of the situation.
I have become so aware of the tightness, pain and restriction of my neck/my childhood dental trauma/chronic fight or flight/so many things in relation to my lifelong trauma and my right side dominance/back pain and so much somatic pain. Truly fascinated how I keep learning new things and how old understandings are outdated thinking....wow!!
This information in this video describes so many of the the conditions in my body that are bringing me pain and other health risks. I’ve spent countless hours researching to get to the bottom of it and this is the first time I’m confident that I’ve found an accurate description of my issues. Amazing stuff
Uhm...wow...just blown away at how correct my intuition has been on literally every single one of my issues, described exactly in this vid, being linked together! All the work I have done to get me to this vid has revealed that I am just getting started in healing my nervous system! This is big! Thank you thank you!!
Wow nice I love to hear all of your info to make logicout putting things back in a proper flow with all the detailsofwhat this bad cramping non movements I love it how you can enumerate so it does makes sense on what happens to all of us not flowing proprely, tks for all the knowledge you provide
Man, it is like you are describing me in most of your videos. It strange in that it gives me a sense of relief, but at the same time a sense of hopelessness, which is weird to feel at the same time. Thanks for all the free info Neal, it really helps!
Thankyou. I've only recently started humming and grinning to try and circumvent anxiety attacks. The idea of neck flexing to promote that healing is an interesting proposition.
Totally made sense to me. I feel like my multiple surgeries for breast cancer, mastectomy and 5 reconstructions, the way I sleep on my right side to feel safe and protective/recover from surgery and anxiety has contributed to my stress and vagus nerve being restricted by this imbalance you talk about. I’ve been readying quite abit about vagus nerve and I include humming to reduce tension there, which I believe is calming. When I stand and focus on my stance and grounded like in “mountain pose” from yoga In particular arch of right foot and heel of left with eyes closed, I notice a different view in the mirror. Afterwards. I also am aware of my hip flexors tightness pain in glutes and other neck pain, also around trig aural area activated. I’m so excited to hear all of this as it pieces back together my cause and symptoms, and treatment together as I suffer from fibromyalgia. Not sure if my comment made sense but your thoughts would be appreciated ☀️🙏🏼
I had massive tightness in my left side of my neck that limited me from turning head to the left. Driving was painful when I had to change lanes and look if cars were coming. I had been to chiropractors and also deep tissue massage and nothing. What fixed it in one treatment was acupuncture. One needle, not painful, and I felt the release. I started to cry immediately at the feeling of being able to turn my head again. Very informative video, thank you!
Thanks Neil, I have chronic tension in the muscles you mentioned on my right hand side. My life is hell because it affects my face, eyes and I get headaches. I get headaches even attempting to read because of the chronic muscle spasms and tension/tightness. I hope that your videos will at least encourage me to do something about my problems. You are right about social interaction, I have withdrawn from any social interaction because of constant discomfort...
@@JasonBarker_YT getting worse, I now basically don’t have a life, I never feel like socialising because I’m too uncomfortable all the time, my face is very tight and the muscles are rigid around my neck/eyes/jaw. Thanks for asking ❤️
@@NealHallinan Are there any Postural Restoration Certified PTs in Ontario Canada and could this stuck pattern also set off someone's bowels, I am assuming the answer would be yes? I was diagnosed with Crohn's Colitis back in 2008 and after doing a few months of adjustments with my NUCCA Chiropractor, meditation, electromedicine work, various different nutrients, diets, IV's, etc. I had reversed all of my ailments including all the neck and middle back pain that I was experiencing at the time. However, with the stress of the world in the last three years, I feel as though I've been stuck in some sort an autonomic nervous system pattern that leaves me absolutely debilitated now after the slightest bit of stress which then leads to intense neck, mid-back, and left hip pain, the hip pain is new, which then seems to set of my autoimmune conditions and previous infections with Lyme disease. From there I end up completely inflamed again, falling out of remission (mind you I also suspect some sort of candida overgrowth again!), but definitely noticed a clear pattern after a traumatic event. A good friend of mine did your program, she is a practitioner herself who had various postural issues after several really bad accidents and she thinks this therapy could help me but she's in the USA, hence my original question. My situation has gotten so bad with my bowels and other internal organ systems because of all of this that I've almost been hospitalized 2 times in the last three years, one in which I refused to seek conventional medical treatment which ended in a near-death experience, so it's gotten pretty bad. Most recently, after thousands of dollars and hours of various therapies and things that I could do for myself having worked in the natural health care industry for over a decade, I did find myself nearly reversing all of my symptoms once again but a recent stressful event seems to have started it all back up again in a matter of weeks! Any suggestions?
I love this. I have been wondering for years about why my body turns to the right, when I am relaxing, having to use my strenght to have my body point forward. I have now played with my feet as you described and it makes an immidiate shift. So amazing. Have been conscious about this the whole day an brought my body back into thriving mode several times. Feeling amazing, this is such a great awarness about my body. Thank you
Mind blown. I have been healing and recovering emotionally after a 17 year long abusive relationship. I have been learning about the vagus nerve to help in this process. I have this exact postural dysfunction you speak of to the right, shoulder high, teeth and jaw TMJ on right, everything off in the exact way you describe. I've been seeing an osteopath to help. I had no idea my posture issues were related to my trauma, but the way you explain it makes total sense - my body was in fight or flight for 17 years and it completely changed me structurally. Thank you for this video and insight!
You're welcome, Allison. Also check out the book "The Body Keeps the Score". The osteopath can help, but if he doesn't recognize the exact pattern that I'm talking about, and how it will affect your movement all the way down to your feet, it may not resolve fully. I'd seek out a Postural Restoration Institute certified PT to help. They are trained to treat the exact pattern that you are experiencing.
So at 5:40 in are you talking about the dreaded cervical hinge acquired from bad forward posture due to computer use, correct? If so, Kjetil Larson from MSK Neurology talks about this in his vids as well.
Thank you, Neal. your videos and knowledge has helped me a lot. I have extreme case of Left AIC, right BC because of over three decades of compensatory patterns. you are literally describing my affliction in this video. My head/neck is being pulled to the right causing the atlas, c1 and c2 to follow. You can’t be healing, living and breathing if that happens. Pain plus neurological issues was normal for me. after doing PRI exercises, my right side is starting to relax a bit every time. Thanks from the bottom of my heart.
Neal, Thank you so much for these explanations, the exercise with the feet is an incredible revelation :) I noticed years ago that my chest wants to rotate to the right and of course my neck. What you say about the reason why the body turns to the right is incredible and makes complete sense to me. wow!
love your videos. sometimes when I'm getting discouraged about my progress I will watch one of these and it immediately re-inspires me. thank you, Neal!
I was led here because of whiplash/neck issues/tinnitus. This info on the Vagus Nerve is extremely informative. Shared. Thank you! For everyone here please also check out vids: What Is Atlas Orthogonal, Kjetil Larson - MSK Neurology, Dr. Hauser - Caring Medical, Dr. Gabor Mate, Dr. Berg, Joe Cannon, Dr. Meir Schneider, Julian Cowan Hill, Liam Stops Tinnitus all on RUclips. Type in cervical instability, neck issues, trigger point therapy, etc.
Thanks Neal Another awesome video. My neck is just as you described after years working a high stress job where I was in perpetual fight or flight. So so interesting 👍
Thank you I have experience of osteoporosis and live with cerebral palsy . As well as arthritis everywhere which doctors have not diagnosed. In my neck I suffer with pain many thanks j will not give up
you are amazing.. I suffered from diaphragmatic paralysis for so long.. was misdiagnosed.... for soooo long.... vagus and phrenic nerve disfunction from a bad Gall bladder removal... injuring my nerves..
Hey a shout out again to this video it's me second time my body had to get up immediately and do the small exercise recommended here and even after the three years of very hard work in 22 years of observing and all kinds of horror trying to climb out of disability I probably would have been in the constraints of a tight-reined horse still if I had not come across this somehow so I got to tell you the value of your posting all your work and everything is just over the roof for me I can't tell you how valuable it has become to me what you did just finding the book reading the book coming across it and posting it and then it coming across to me and the 22 years of hell I've been living I just got to tell you again thank you thank you thank you I can't believe the difference I notice already within an hour that I can turn fully left now which I haven't been able to since I broke my neck and also now I realize what the pains have been going up the right side of the neck recently and up into the the skull must have been caused by this it's all starting to feel so much better already there was a lot of nerve activity immediately after doing the exercise for about 10 minutes all the way from the skull down to the right foot which broke over six places the leg broke and the neck broken the head got scalped and there was a whole lot of feeling that happen from this little tiny exercise and I cannot connotate the value of what you have done for me thank you!!!🥰
You're great Neil, you seem to have only one physical problem left in your life - your sight. Since you opened many doors of perception for myself, I will give you an advice, which, if you take it, will help you. You need to sungaze to fix that - it will completely fix your eyesight (and much more). I'm claiming that from personal experience - many years ago I irreversibly damaged my eyes with alcohol (absinthe), and it had been like that for a couple of years. Then I started sungazing (for other reasons than fixing eyes) and I noticed my eyesight is getting better. After a while, my sight became laser sharp. I am unusually strong with incredible perception on many levels because of that. It is incredible how good visual system affects everything in our being, but that's something you already know. The only thing is, my sight deteriorates with time, so I have to sungaze again to fix it, every few years for a few weeks. I'm not a constant sungazer, I only use it as a necessity. Hopefully you will read this and try it. There are a few "tips and tricks" when it comes to sungazing, if you decide to do it, ask here on this comment and I'll let you know what they are. Thanks for the knowledge you share, and rock on.
@@ejw4300 you look directly at the sun, but only within first 45 minutes from sunrise, or within 4 minutes before sunset. You don't look at it during any other time, because intensity is too high, and you will damage your eyes-
Yes except on my other side. And I am getting it to relax. to inhale, etc. Isometric exerciuses and exercises to loosen and relax the trap, My doctor said exertional dyspnea. My neuro -last time i saw him (i have MS) said the ONLY reason to have trouble inhaling is panic attack. Thank all of you on here, saved my life.
Thank you for sharing! Would you be so kind to give us an example exercise that helps to put these back to normal? Thank you so much! Much love from Hungary, from Victoria
12:30 ...On his website he also mentions that "Understanding how to turn off an overactive R TMCC now enables me to usually get full neutrality in the brachial chain."
damn, watching two and a half men made me blind to such valueable information im recovering from severe unbalance with mace workouts (focusing spine muscles and lower back) and playing bass (working on rhythm and 'surfing' the music) im glad our ai overlords has led me to your channel thank you! if you happen to know something about healing tinnitus, please make a video! i just know this is very related
Thank you for this wonderful information. I am stuck in a bad pattern at this time. Been suffering for 2.5 years although there were small signs going back 3 years but pattern had not yet caused chronic pain and chronic fight/flight until about 2 years ago. Now i have chronic face, neck, shoulder and back tension. I have made some small positive gains in just the past 4 months doing self massage but i am still missing something. Some of the comments here give me hope that I am onto something. And yeah all neurologists, pain docs, orthopedists, chiros and primary care doctors are clueless. I have found 2 good PTs and 1 good massage therapist that are willing to help me figure this out. Unfortunately no PRI trained providers anywhere near me but i am trying to understand your videos and blog posts.
I am learning to drive now. So this is the reason why if I panic, if I feel in danger, I have difficulty using my left foot and let up the clutch ? Very interesting. I wonder- maybe car constructors should know this as well - maybe where the clutch is situated is dangerous.
Game changer!!! 🙏🏻💚 a million thank you’s I had a cervical discectomy of the C5/6 nearly 20 years ago and continue with degeneration and ongoing chronic pain down to my feet, lack balance and fall over often! Have seen multiple physios, therapists and chiropractor - I’m so getting this book!
Very interesting! I've read this book and do the exercises, which have helped my migraines tremendously. Cool to hear your perspective on it, and playing with the standing pattern it made a lot of sense. I could feel my spine and neck release from just that!
Thank You kind sir a Chiropractor damaged my neck over 30 .years ago, and its been hell I feel for you that you lived it from a young child, and a mn happy for you that your free of it now👍I will certainly try what you have suggested if anyone should know how to correct it you would as you know its hard to get help from people who have just learned it totally from text books. I have had some success with a competent massage therapist but they are few 'n' far between Thanks again for sharing your knowledge God Bless✝️🙏 You& Yours in 2021 kind regards Sherril L.Carss
I have severe tinntius it appeared in 2017 and had gradually gotten worse along with bad neck and trapeze pain. I think the tinntius is related to this. But medical system continues to say they don't know what tinnitus is and there is no cure. I have rebelled against this the whole time. When laying flat on my back or sitting with my legs stretched out in front of me, my right foot turns severely to the right almost to the point that my little toe can touch the ground, it's severely rotated to the right. The left foot points straight up. I also am suffering from TMJ. All of this makes sense. I'm going to show this video to my useless GP and physiotherapists and then never return to either of them!
I had covid and the coughing was unbearable, I broke my ribs. Now Im dealing with vestibular migraines and Im sure it has something to do with my muscles and vagus nerve. I hope I can get some relief soon.
Karla... please don't rely on hope, but rather "just BELIEVE" You are on the right path to Healing is what I believe! We can heal ourselves in EVERY way :) Blessings out to you💖
Fascinating book, I came to it through Dr splichal. Hearing people talk about 'fight or flight' was never the same again. Like hearing people talk of water and steam, without mentioning ice. Although the exercises he prescribes were heartbreakingly ineffective. For a patho pec with a right crossbite anyway lol. It described the experience of my problems so well, read it at least three times cover to cover trying *will* the piece I was missing to reveal itself to me. Fascinating to hear you discuss it from a PRI lens, thank you :)
@@zoezzzarko1117 haven't found one. Right now I'm working on killing gut microbes to stop ab impediments from the inside, and playing with kettlebells to make the obliques fire more 'automatically', to then get all the other downstream de-patterning
@@zoezzzarko1117 no worries. That's just what I'm trying though. I have tooth involvement and eye involvement and a thyroid problem, so Neal's more basic depatterning cues and tips might work for you :)
@@patricktoth-meyers5044 Yeah I have maybe 10 other major issues atm... so more so looking for ppl who have similar issues and seeing what has worked for them so I can do more research
Thank u, does anyone know of a video showing it in action? He did wonderful explaining but I feel like It would be so helpful to see it in action, thank you for all you do🙏🏻
wow...... facinating stuff........ I had no idea or wasnt aware yet the connection in the neck musles and wwooowwww. alot fits right in..... thanks for sharing this..!! Can't wait to read it!
11:59- very interesting but I have no idea how to correct what my posture.. feel my right foots arch while putting pressure on my left heal? My body is constantly in fight or flight, going on like 17 years.. could you explain this in layman’s terms, or do you have a video showing the exercise or how to correct it?
When I am put under anesthesia and am intubated by the anesthesiologist for surgery, I leave surgery with painful intractable hiccups that can only be stopped by a 50 mg injection of Thorazine. I believe that the nerve that is irritated is the vagus nerve. Any suggestions??
Lovely and easy exercises. I yawned so much throughout these exercises! Particularly when I turned my eyes to look in the directions you suggested. Is this normal?!
Thank you Very Interesting points you have made I have I've had the book for ages and got distracted with the pandemic I shall have dig it out and actually read it !!
I think I have this, except I rotate to the left, because this was brought on by a parachute accident where I broke my neck and jaw. My C1 is always rotated to the left, and I have it out back in place twice per week, or it shuts off my life. My right rib cage is a mess, but so it the left side. My right SCM is atrophied and you can’t even see it when I turn my head. The left SCM is weak and right, but you can actually see it. Very interesting video.
I'd really like a short video on the right foot pronation, left heel sensing the ground exercise. My head naturally tilts to the right being pulled over. I can tell my neck muscles engage when I breathe deeply.
My tilt is that my left leg is the one that is longer and my hip projects on the left side? Right leg and foot turn outwards and away from the body. Any thoughts on what to do?
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From the jaw and neck, to the abdomen and pelvis, all the way down into my legs and feet, your channel has been describing the last 7 years of chronic pain down to the details. I have to thank you and thank God for sharing this information.
How are you now?
Yeah, when you look at the way the body was "engineered" as a load-bearing "breathing machine" it really makes it obvious that God is real and He can heal our bodies through their correctly intended design.
only because you cannot imagine something it doenst mean that it was god, peasant😆 particularly it is no evidence bwahahaha@@JackFoerster-Hunzicker
You verbalized my gratitude.
THANK YOU! 11 years of dragging myself from neurologists to psychiatrists and then to psychologists, explaining that my head, throat and neck are in constant tension and that I have DPDR and NO ONE knew how to help or explain it. Pure shame. And then I find an explanation on YT, of all places! F-ing unbelievable!
The Green Knight neck tension is b&$ch. I have been there.
The Green Knight I know you posted awhile ago but I got some osteopathic work done, cranial sacral where the therapist move the bones in my skull and he released probably about 37 years of tensions and problems I’ve been experiencing and I’ve had the same problems you describe. But all along it was a problem w too much tension in my face. Sounds strange but even my eyesight is better along w my blood circulation. I can actually balance on my feet. It’s truly a miracle. Just thought I’d share.
@@timetraveler6977 Thanks, my situation is improving in exactly the same way but gradually with muscle relaxants and massages. In my case, menstrual pain has also disappeared completely!
@thetimetraveler what type of Dr. does the kind of treatment you speak of? I am in the same situation I’ve been to all sorts of Dr’s.
Jamie Phillips osteopath is your best bet.
I have watched 1000’s of videos to find this. Truly grateful
Wow, amazing insight and helps connect the dots around the power of the vagus nerve and the nervous system -- it's survival mode vs. the body feeling safe to perform, trust, thrive etc. I've had hip / pelvic rotation issues for YEARS and made progress with chiro, meditative mind body work, foam rolling, functional fitness, etc but the problem never fully goes away, especially with the unconscous posture twisting. Felt a shift with Neal's feet technique. Neck to feet, it all connects. Thank you!
I am glad for you...could you explain how work this techniqe, please...I did not understand...should I stay on right heal or what? Thank you and God bless 😊
Okay this is literally what I have needed to hear to reaffirm my journey of adjusting my posture which in turn brought up so much unhealed trauma and coping mechanisms emotionally and physically in my body. Thank you for this and please make more videos about this
Your title should be professor, great knowledge and wisdom.
This is an unrecognised , serious health complication which merits far more study by all medical professionals and by the public and recognition on a par with cancer and Covid for its debilitating effect on the mind and body . Thank you. I will try to get the book to pass onto them for further help and understanding !
The vagus and the importance of neck rotation can absolutely be debilitating when not functioning properly.
Dude! As massage therapist, I am seeing a huge percentage of my clientele locked in this pattern. 🤯 This book just jumped to the top of my reading list. Very cool stuff.
Hi Katie. The book is great. But as I state in the video, what the author describes in regards to the neck is part of a larger pattern of the entire body, which unfortunately he doesn't recognize. I'd recommend the Postural Restoration Institute's primary courses for a better understanding of the situation.
Thnx! Very helpful! What can i do to 'fix ' it?
So what exercise is good?
@@NealHallinan Now that’s how you do self promotion!
@@NealHallinan as a massage therapist without a bachelor's, I don't meet the requirements to get into the program. Where else can I learn this info?
I have become so aware of the tightness, pain and restriction of my neck/my childhood dental trauma/chronic fight or flight/so many things in relation to my lifelong trauma and my right side dominance/back pain and so much somatic pain. Truly fascinated how I keep learning new things and how old understandings are outdated thinking....wow!!
This information in this video describes so many of the the conditions in my body that are bringing me pain and other health risks. I’ve spent countless hours researching to get to the bottom of it and this is the first time I’m confident that I’ve found an accurate description of my issues. Amazing stuff
Wow you the first to describe my issues after 4 years going to all the medical so called professionals unbelievable
Incredible! My intuition has felt this for so long, thank you!!
Do have the book Accessing the healing power of the Vagal Nerve, highly recommend this book, great reference.
Fascinating. I am an orthotist, I think I'll start to incorporate some of these notions in my practice.
Whats an orthotist?
Uhm...wow...just blown away at how correct my intuition has been on literally every single one of my issues, described exactly in this vid, being linked together! All the work I have done to get me to this vid has revealed that I am just getting started in healing my nervous system! This is big! Thank you thank you!!
Wow nice I love to hear all of your info to make logicout putting things back in a proper flow with all the detailsofwhat this bad cramping non movements I love it how you can enumerate so it does makes sense on what happens to all of us not flowing proprely, tks for all the knowledge you provide
Man, it is like you are describing me in most of your videos. It strange in that it gives me a sense of relief, but at the same time a sense of hopelessness, which is weird to feel at the same time.
Thanks for all the free info Neal, it really helps!
It's because it IS hopeless 😉😍
Thankyou. I've only recently started humming and grinning to try and circumvent anxiety attacks. The idea of neck flexing to promote that healing is an interesting proposition.
how is it going? could u please share tips?
Totally made sense to me.
I feel like my multiple surgeries for breast cancer, mastectomy and 5 reconstructions, the way I sleep on my right side to feel safe and protective/recover from surgery and anxiety has contributed to my stress and vagus nerve being restricted by this imbalance you talk about.
I’ve been readying quite abit about vagus nerve and I include humming to reduce tension there, which I believe is calming.
When I stand and focus on my stance and grounded like in “mountain pose” from yoga
In particular arch of right foot and heel of left with eyes closed, I notice a different view in the mirror. Afterwards.
I also am aware of my hip flexors tightness pain in glutes and other neck pain, also around trig aural area activated.
I’m so excited to hear all of this as it pieces back together my cause and symptoms, and treatment together as I suffer from fibromyalgia.
Not sure if my comment made sense but your thoughts would be appreciated ☀️🙏🏼
I had massive tightness in my left side of my neck that limited me from turning head to the left. Driving was painful when I had to change lanes and look if cars were coming. I had been to chiropractors and also deep tissue massage and nothing. What fixed it in one treatment was acupuncture. One needle, not painful, and I felt the release. I started to cry immediately at the feeling of being able to turn my head again. Very informative video, thank you!
Very good! I still have to go for acupuncture and tui na massage for this. Keep getting retraumatised because I live in a toxic environment xx
hey where you live...please reply .I have exactly the same problem
Thanks Neil, I have chronic tension in the muscles you mentioned on my right hand side. My life is hell because it affects my face, eyes and I get headaches. I get headaches even attempting to read because of the chronic muscle spasms and tension/tightness. I hope that your videos will at least encourage me to do something about my problems. You are right about social interaction, I have withdrawn from any social interaction because of constant discomfort...
If you are in the US, I highly recommend you find a Postural Restoration Institute certified PT to help you.
I hear you and experience the same- hope you find the help that you need x
How are you now ?
@@JasonBarker_YT getting worse, I now basically don’t have a life, I never feel like socialising because I’m too uncomfortable all the time, my face is very tight and the muscles are rigid around my neck/eyes/jaw.
Thanks for asking ❤️
@@NealHallinan Are there any Postural Restoration Certified PTs in Ontario Canada and could this stuck pattern also set off someone's bowels, I am assuming the answer would be yes? I was diagnosed with Crohn's Colitis back in 2008 and after doing a few months of adjustments with my NUCCA Chiropractor, meditation, electromedicine work, various different nutrients, diets, IV's, etc. I had reversed all of my ailments including all the neck and middle back pain that I was experiencing at the time.
However, with the stress of the world in the last three years, I feel as though I've been stuck in some sort an autonomic nervous system pattern that leaves me absolutely debilitated now after the slightest bit of stress which then leads to intense neck, mid-back, and left hip pain, the hip pain is new, which then seems to set of my autoimmune conditions and previous infections with Lyme disease. From there I end up completely inflamed again, falling out of remission (mind you I also suspect some sort of candida overgrowth again!), but definitely noticed a clear pattern after a traumatic event. A good friend of mine did your program, she is a practitioner herself who had various postural issues after several really bad accidents and she thinks this therapy could help me but she's in the USA, hence my original question.
My situation has gotten so bad with my bowels and other internal organ systems because of all of this that I've almost been hospitalized 2 times in the last three years, one in which I refused to seek conventional medical treatment which ended in a near-death experience, so it's gotten pretty bad. Most recently, after thousands of dollars and hours of various therapies and things that I could do for myself having worked in the natural health care industry for over a decade, I did find myself nearly reversing all of my symptoms once again but a recent stressful event seems to have started it all back up again in a matter of weeks! Any suggestions?
I love this. I have been wondering for years about why my body turns to the right, when I am relaxing, having to use my strenght to have my body point forward. I have now played with my feet as you described and it makes an immidiate shift. So amazing. Have been conscious about this the whole day an brought my body back into thriving mode several times. Feeling amazing, this is such a great awarness about my body. Thank you
What'd you do with your feet to help?
You get it buddy. Finally someone puts it together for me. Thank you
Watching this gave me chills because it’s exactly what I’ve been experiencing for years!!!
That makes two of us!
tes same .. I kept calling out thats me!
Holy moley! I need to go deeper into this and just wanted to say thank you! On my way out the door right now but I'll be back.
I’ve been seeing a Upper Cervical Chiropractor working with my Atlas alone! Has worked miracles..
Mind blown. I have been healing and recovering emotionally after a 17 year long abusive relationship. I have been learning about the vagus nerve to help in this process. I have this exact postural dysfunction you speak of to the right, shoulder high, teeth and jaw TMJ on right, everything off in the exact way you describe. I've been seeing an osteopath to help. I had no idea my posture issues were related to my trauma, but the way you explain it makes total sense - my body was in fight or flight for 17 years and it completely changed me structurally. Thank you for this video and insight!
You're welcome, Allison. Also check out the book "The Body Keeps the Score". The osteopath can help, but if he doesn't recognize the exact pattern that I'm talking about, and how it will affect your movement all the way down to your feet, it may not resolve fully. I'd seek out a Postural Restoration Institute certified PT to help. They are trained to treat the exact pattern that you are experiencing.
@@NealHallinan Thank you for the tip! I live in France - I wonder if there are PTs with this type of training here... I am going to look into it.
@@allisonhogan7443 How is it going ? I live in France too and unfortunately I didn't find any PRI practicioner here...
Wow I’m glad I found you I have horrible neck tension. I also get bloated bad and have nausea as well as bad anxiety
Have those same symptoms,have you found anything that helps you?
Look up the Caring Medical Channel too xxx
So at 5:40 in are you talking about the dreaded cervical hinge acquired from bad forward posture due to computer use, correct? If so, Kjetil Larson from MSK Neurology talks about this in his vids as well.
Always complex and illuminating, thanks for shining the light buddy.
Thank you, Neal. your videos and knowledge has helped me a lot.
I have extreme case of Left AIC, right BC because of over three decades of compensatory patterns.
you are literally describing my affliction in this video.
My head/neck is being pulled to the right causing the atlas, c1 and c2 to follow.
You can’t be healing, living and breathing if that happens.
Pain plus neurological issues was normal for me.
after doing PRI exercises, my right side is starting to relax a bit every time.
Thanks from the bottom of my heart.
Hello Ahmed. Happy to hear you are feeling better. Are you in the United States?
Neal Hallinan yes.
@@amhedshaavi8626 is there anyway i can contact you akhi
Neal, Thank you so much for these explanations, the exercise with the feet is an incredible revelation :) I noticed years ago that my chest wants to rotate to the right and of course my neck. What you say about the reason why the body turns to the right is incredible and makes complete sense to me. wow!
Ah, great! I love when it all comes together and people have that "a-ha" moment!
Wow, this was like a magic trick, it worked so fast! Thank you, feeling more relaxed and pain free in the neck!
love your videos. sometimes when I'm getting discouraged about my progress I will watch one of these and it immediately re-inspires me. thank you, Neal!
I was led here because of whiplash/neck issues/tinnitus. This info on the Vagus Nerve is extremely informative. Shared. Thank you!
For everyone here please also check out vids: What Is Atlas Orthogonal, Kjetil Larson - MSK Neurology, Dr. Hauser - Caring Medical, Dr. Gabor Mate, Dr. Berg, Joe Cannon, Dr. Meir Schneider, Julian Cowan Hill, Liam Stops Tinnitus all on RUclips. Type in cervical instability, neck issues, trigger point therapy, etc.
Think an actual demo of foot and heel would been beneficial
Rolling a baked bean can under the arch of the left foot whilst raising right heel?
Thanks Neal
Another awesome video. My neck is just as you described after years working a high stress job where I was in perpetual fight or flight. So so interesting 👍
Idk why these videos are being suggested to me but it seems like it makes sense in my life
Thank you I have experience of osteoporosis and live with cerebral palsy . As well as arthritis everywhere which doctors have not diagnosed. In my neck I suffer with pain many thanks j will not give up
you are amazing.. I suffered from diaphragmatic paralysis for so long.. was misdiagnosed.... for soooo long.... vagus and phrenic nerve disfunction from a bad Gall bladder removal... injuring my nerves..
This was very informative! Thank you for taking the time to make this video
You're quite welcome. Thanks for the comment.
Hey a shout out again to this video it's me second time my body had to get up immediately and do the small exercise recommended here and even after the three years of very hard work in 22 years of observing and all kinds of horror trying to climb out of disability I probably would have been in the constraints of a tight-reined horse still if I had not come across this somehow so I got to tell you the value of your posting all your work and everything is just over the roof for me I can't tell you how valuable it has become to me what you did just finding the book reading the book coming across it and posting it and then it coming across to me and the 22 years of hell I've been living I just got to tell you again thank you thank you thank you I can't believe the difference I notice already within an hour that I can turn fully left now which I haven't been able to since I broke my neck and also now I realize what the pains have been going up the right side of the neck recently and up into the the skull must have been caused by this it's all starting to feel so much better already there was a lot of nerve activity immediately after doing the exercise for about 10 minutes all the way from the skull down to the right foot which broke over six places the leg broke and the neck broken the head got scalped and there was a whole lot of feeling that happen from this little tiny exercise and I cannot connotate the value of what you have done for me thank you!!!🥰
You're great Neil, you seem to have only one physical problem left in your life - your sight. Since you opened many doors of perception for myself, I will give you an advice, which, if you take it, will help you. You need to sungaze to fix that - it will completely fix your eyesight (and much more). I'm claiming that from personal experience - many years ago I irreversibly damaged my eyes with alcohol (absinthe), and it had been like that for a couple of years. Then I started sungazing (for other reasons than fixing eyes) and I noticed my eyesight is getting better. After a while, my sight became laser sharp. I am unusually strong with incredible perception on many levels because of that. It is incredible how good visual system affects everything in our being, but that's something you already know. The only thing is, my sight deteriorates with time, so I have to sungaze again to fix it, every few years for a few weeks. I'm not a constant sungazer, I only use it as a necessity. Hopefully you will read this and try it. There are a few "tips and tricks" when it comes to sungazing, if you decide to do it, ask here on this comment and I'll let you know what they are. Thanks for the knowledge you share, and rock on.
when you say sungaze, do you mean looking at the sun directly or nearby?
@@ejw4300 you look directly at the sun, but only within first 45 minutes from sunrise, or within 4 minutes before sunset. You don't look at it during any other time, because intensity is too high, and you will damage your eyes-
@@broos1234😊
Yes except on my other side. And I am getting it to relax. to inhale, etc. Isometric exerciuses and exercises to loosen and relax the trap,
My doctor said exertional dyspnea. My neuro -last time i saw him (i have MS) said the ONLY reason to have trouble inhaling is panic attack. Thank all of you on here, saved my life.
Thank you for sharing! Would you be so kind to give us an example exercise that helps to put these back to normal? Thank you so much! Much love from Hungary, from Victoria
12:30 ...On his website he also mentions that "Understanding how to turn off an overactive R TMCC now enables me to usually get full neutrality in the brachial chain."
I agree I would love to have a book of his with exercises in it.
Excellent Wisdom Share🙏 Blessings 🙌
damn, watching two and a half men made me blind to such valueable information
im recovering from severe unbalance with mace workouts (focusing spine muscles and lower back) and playing bass (working on rhythm and 'surfing' the music)
im glad our ai overlords has led me to your channel
thank you!
if you happen to know something about healing tinnitus, please make a video! i just know this is very related
That's Awesome!! ~ Followed every bit n can concur.. N also "viewed" thru Lens of Eastern Modality = followed Rosenberg's angle!! .. YOU ROCK!!
Thanks, Kathleen!
Thank you for this wonderful information. I am stuck in a bad pattern at this time. Been suffering for 2.5 years although there were small signs going back 3 years but pattern had not yet caused chronic pain and chronic fight/flight until about 2 years ago. Now i have chronic face, neck, shoulder and back tension. I have made some small positive gains in just the past 4 months doing self massage but i am still missing something. Some of the comments here give me hope that I am onto something. And yeah all neurologists, pain docs, orthopedists, chiros and primary care doctors are clueless. I have found 2 good PTs and 1 good massage therapist that are willing to help me figure this out. Unfortunately no PRI trained providers anywhere near me but i am trying to understand your videos and blog posts.
It's definitely difficult without seeing a live PRI therapist.
Thank you so much!! Love your information!!!
I think this is what is happening to me. Will buy the book. My left side is affected. Flight or fight is constant. Can not keep neck relaxed, ever.
This is so on point with the problems I experience. Thanks for letting us know about it!
Grateful I found the presentation that describes my situation exactly. Thank you
I bought the Accessing the Healing ... recently. Glad to find this.
I am learning to drive now. So this is the reason why if I panic, if I feel in danger, I have difficulty using my left foot and let up the clutch ? Very interesting. I wonder- maybe car constructors should know this as well - maybe where the clutch is situated is dangerous.
Listening to that book right now!
Link please
link please
Game changer!!! 🙏🏻💚 a million thank you’s
I had a cervical discectomy of the C5/6 nearly 20 years ago and continue with degeneration and ongoing chronic pain down to my feet, lack balance and fall over often! Have seen multiple physios, therapists and chiropractor - I’m so getting this book!
I seem to feel better after watering the lawn standing on the wet grass in my bare feet, while watering it. How does that factor in?
You are grounding yourself. Recommend watching The Earthing Movie documentary...can find here on youtube.
Very interesting! I've read this book and do the exercises, which have helped my migraines tremendously. Cool to hear your perspective on it, and playing with the standing pattern it made a lot of sense. I could feel my spine and neck release from just that!
so interesting about the negative thought putting the neck out of alignment.
Yes, that was an interesting observation, but in Postural Restoration we discuss the fact that this "patterning" is all the autonomic nervous system.
Thank you
Do you have a video explaining the thing with the feet you alluded to? I didn’t quite get it…
Thank You kind sir a Chiropractor damaged my neck over 30 .years ago, and its been hell I feel for you that you lived it from a young child, and a mn happy for you that your free of it now👍I will certainly try what you have suggested if anyone should know how to correct it you would as you know its hard to get help from people who have just learned it totally from text books.
I have had some success with a competent massage therapist
but they are few 'n' far between Thanks again for sharing your knowledge God Bless✝️🙏 You&
Yours in 2021 kind regards
Sherril L.Carss
Thanks for the share, I will look at those books!
I have severe tinntius it appeared in 2017 and had gradually gotten worse along with bad neck and trapeze pain. I think the tinntius is related to this. But medical system continues to say they don't know what tinnitus is and there is no cure. I have rebelled against this the whole time. When laying flat on my back or sitting with my legs stretched out in front of me, my right foot turns severely to the right almost to the point that my little toe can touch the ground, it's severely rotated to the right. The left foot points straight up. I also am suffering from TMJ. All of this makes sense. I'm going to show this video to my useless GP and physiotherapists and then never return to either of them!
The severely rotated right foot is often found in the left AIC pattern. If you are in the US, a Postural Restoration therapist may help.
Did u get rid of your tinnitus ?
I had covid and the coughing was unbearable, I broke my ribs. Now Im dealing with vestibular migraines and Im sure it has something to do with my muscles and vagus nerve. I hope I can get some relief soon.
Karla... please don't rely on hope, but rather "just BELIEVE" You are on the right path to Healing is what I believe! We can heal ourselves in EVERY way :) Blessings out to you💖
@@Joy-ym3mx thank you so much! I much needed to hear this :)
How are you doing now?
@@elizabethmcleod246 I got worse with second dose of Pfizer. :(
@@karlinhahf Oh darn. Acupuncture might help. Tell the practitioner what happened.
Thank you so much for sharing all of your knowledge 🙏 ❤😢 finally some answers
Thank you for your time and expertise.
Very interesting and helpful 🙂
Thanks, Christine.
Fascinating book, I came to it through Dr splichal. Hearing people talk about 'fight or flight' was never the same again. Like hearing people talk of water and steam, without mentioning ice.
Although the exercises he prescribes were heartbreakingly ineffective. For a patho pec with a right crossbite anyway lol. It described the experience of my problems so well, read it at least three times cover to cover trying *will* the piece I was missing to reveal itself to me.
Fascinating to hear you discuss it from a PRI lens, thank you :)
What was the answer for you?
@@zoezzzarko1117 haven't found one. Right now I'm working on killing gut microbes to stop ab impediments from the inside, and playing with kettlebells to make the obliques fire more 'automatically', to then get all the other downstream de-patterning
@@patricktoth-meyers5044 ok thank you for responding, I appreciate it
@@zoezzzarko1117 no worries. That's just what I'm trying though. I have tooth involvement and eye involvement and a thyroid problem, so Neal's more basic depatterning cues and tips might work for you :)
@@patricktoth-meyers5044 Yeah I have maybe 10 other major issues atm... so more so looking for ppl who have similar issues and seeing what has worked for them so I can do more research
Thank u, does anyone know of a video showing it in action?
He did wonderful explaining but I feel like It would be so helpful to see it in action, thank you for all you do🙏🏻
Thanks! I'm a singer and I read Rossenberger's book and practiced his exercises; I find you have verte good points on this matter!
Keep up the amazing work man you are an angel 😇
Thank you Duy Quang 1998!
wow...... facinating stuff........ I had no idea or wasnt aware yet the connection in the neck musles and wwooowwww. alot fits right in..... thanks for sharing this..!! Can't wait to read it!
Keeping the neck relaxed is a huge deal!
As Cranio i have read this book as well. it works and is really great. Polyvagal and his add to it
It's a really good book, indeed.
11:59- very interesting but I have no idea how to correct what my posture.. feel my right foots arch while putting pressure on my left heal? My body is constantly in fight or flight, going on like 17 years.. could you explain this in layman’s terms, or do you have a video showing the exercise or how to correct it?
Wow I was looking for more examples of the exercises in the book and got sooooo much value out of this video 🙏🏽 thank you so so much!!!!!
Wow Im 38 and living this!!....
Great video Neal, very fascinating!
Glad you enjoyed it. It's a good book.
When I am put under anesthesia and am intubated by the anesthesiologist for surgery, I leave surgery with painful intractable hiccups that can only be stopped by a 50 mg injection of Thorazine. I believe that the nerve that is irritated is the vagus nerve.
Any suggestions??
Wow....so glad I found you and your channel! I was in a car accident 30vyrs ago and am so messed up after breaking my right knee and foot.
Lovely and easy exercises. I yawned so much throughout these exercises! Particularly when I turned my eyes to look in the directions you suggested. Is this normal?!
what exercises? i wonder what to do now lol, pronating my right food, so i stand more on my left heel?
This is why I always coach people when they are on my table about overactive neck muscles when breathing
Thank you 🙏🏾 😭
Many people forget that in order to activate the vagus nerve you need to move your muscle diaphragm which is innervated by the phrenic nerve.
Please show your technique for realignment
I’m curious in this too. I’ve been going to Chiro
Great job
so how do we fix the feet/pronation? I do walk on the outer side of my right foot and have for all my life.
I bought this book after watching this and it’s amazing - thank you for recommending. More book recommendations most welcome.
It is a great book. I just wished the author realized he was looking at a "pattern" (Left AIC/right BC/right TMCC)
Thank you Very Interesting points you have made I have I've had the book for ages and got distracted with the pandemic I shall have dig it out and actually read it !!
The pandemic has distracted me, as well. Big-time!
How can you sense left heel? Paper underneath ?
Great, very interesting. BUT anything we can do about it ??
Are you talking about the vagus nerve or the neck pattern I talk about?
I think I have this, except I rotate to the left, because this was brought on by a parachute accident where I broke my neck and jaw. My C1 is always rotated to the left, and I have it out back in place twice per week, or it shuts off my life. My right rib cage is a mess, but so it the left side. My right SCM is atrophied and you can’t even see it when I turn my head. The left SCM is weak and right, but you can actually see it. Very interesting video.
I of the Vortex
Accessing the power of the Vagal Nerve
2 great books to read
Great video. It all makes sense
I'd really like a short video on the right foot pronation, left heel sensing the ground exercise. My head naturally tilts to the right being pulled over. I can tell my neck muscles engage when I breathe deeply.
Every Postural Restoration technique incorporates the left heel and right arch.
pritrainer.com/pri-left-aic-right-bc-beginner-example-program/
Should we buy insoles for pronated feet? How can we correct c1 c2 c3 if we dont know where they are?
Nu... so what exercises or chiropractic adjustment to use? Ring dinger from Houston Chiropractic or Ace Thayer from SoCal Chiropractic?
My tilt is that my left leg is the one that is longer and my hip projects on the left side? Right leg and foot turn outwards and away from the body.
Any thoughts on what to do?
Wow, so informative. Thank you.
You're welcome.
*Very interesting...*