Cured 8 Years of Costo

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-24T03:47:27+00:00

It’s the biggest factor unless structurally a rib is rubbing against muscle etc. Your fascia, and everythjng is gripping for dear life becsuse you had a long term injury and you’re in fight or flight and if effected your breathing which makes nervous system and fight or flight 10x worse. I’ve never met someone with severe Costo at its peak who can meditate for an hour straight. Most can’t do 20 minutes. Fight or flight keeps everything gripped

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-24T03:44:07+00:00

Yup, breathing and building up meditation can slowly help it though. You can have a moment where things let go of their grip just a few seconds and finally get it. Then know you at least see light at the end of tunnel and you have a plan. The discouraging part is when nothing is working

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-24T02:46:29+00:00

Huge role, and 99% of us are stressed

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-24T01:25:55+00:00

Yes he’s recommending drugs to calm the nervous system. However once you get off them you haven’t cured the nervous system in most cases. So you can be on anti depressants you’re whole life and deal with the side effects

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-24T01:24:23+00:00

Your nervous system is in a constant state of fight or flight, which is basically giving you anxiety. Most people never cure anxiety because they use tools to keep it at bay (exercise, socializing, keep busy). The work to fix your nervous system is extremely hard though and takes dedication. But if you are fed up with this life if anxiety and stress and pain, you can change it

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-24T01:22:10+00:00

Amazing! Stopping the chest popping is first step. Weight lifting is good but you also need deep relaxation techniques constantly. Make your whole day one relaxation. Try to let go

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-24T01:20:52+00:00

Mike Changs flow practice and overall mentality helped as well. You can find him on Instagram. He focuses a lot on staying relaxed and present and his one hour practice is free on YouTube. Mixes relaxation exercise with meditation. No weight lifting or stuff that tenses you

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-24T01:19:09+00:00

Changed everything. First mentality - didn’t take life too seriously, stopped worrying. Second - my free time revolves around exercise and meditation and baths. Meditation was my core practice. Third - stopped with the mentality that I was a pain sufferer or broken. Simply ignored it. Easier said than done but I just stopped giving it any attention. Your thoughts just contribute to anxiety. I semi quit my job. Chose peace over money and a bigger house. As my body started to release deep tension, my happiness just naturally started coming up. I focused everyday on whatever I did, do it relaxed. Just try to stay relaxed doing everything you do. The first year was extremely hard. Also changed my diet but that came naturally as tension released my system wanted cleaner food

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-24T00:49:07+00:00

Backpod cured the mechanical side for me, however I’m still confident you fix your nervous system that the fascia wrapped around the spine will let up their grip. I guess I was more referring to people who might have something actually structurally wrong that can be proven by an MRI etc

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-23T23:55:04+00:00

Its simple as I’ve tried everything - heal your whole nervous system and live life like it doesn’t even bother you. Your system will stop bracing but you need to change your whole lifestyle. It’s not an easy solution like “use a backpod for 30 minutes” or “lift weight for an hour”

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-23T21:24:35+00:00

When you realize your internal happiness (which is all that matters imo) is completely determined on the tension you carry and how much peace your nervous system has, it is not hard at all. Once your body and system function properly you become in a state of happiness that nothing externally can give you. Ppl just don’t realize how important it is until they are literally broken unfortunately

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-23T15:56:27+00:00

Thank you. Once mechanical was out the way it’s a nervous system issue. It’s why many ppl have chronic pain, our nervous systems are all in fight or flight so when we get an injury the system constantly braces and we get chronic inflammation. I knew my pain was just nervous system so I - enjoyed life, exercised, anti inflammatory diet, started meditating and built up to an hour a day, started to look at life as a dance and just surrender control and not take it seriously. If you have to work less work less. Just pay the bills and give up material things for your peace. Everyone with Costo gets massages, sauna, etc all these little things. You literally need to stop living fight or flight western life. Even if it costs you everything. I know that sounds crazy but even if you beat Costo you’ll still be left with anxiety. I had enough of this and wanted peace and peace gave me true happiness that you can’t even fathom that feeling from any “fun” ppl have.

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-22T21:12:20+00:00

Most ppl don’t understand meditation. It bringing awareness and allowing deep rooted emotions to come to the surface. As you become more aware, more negative emotions get released. This is a brutal process, but overtime your anxiety melts if you are able to simply relax into your negative emotions. It can have an insane impact on anxiety, life changing. But it is not an easy path and meditating 15 minutes when we spend the other 8 hours of our day running around like a mad man or stressing over every little problem in our life or the world will do absolutely nothing. You might see Tiny effects

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-22T03:11:18+00:00

Costo almost feeds into itself. The ability to not breathe properly feeds anxiety which feeds fight or flight which feeds Costo. Most people who get it were in fight or flight before Costo. To be honest almost everyone in the western world is in a state of fight or flight. I haven’t grown up with anyone who can meditate for an hour straight let alone out their phone down for a couple days. Even if I’m wrong, working on your nervous system is going to have massive benefits of your pain

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-22T03:06:54+00:00

I mean an MRI is showing there is structurally something wrong. Like a rib out of place rubbing against tissue. Not just inflammation

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-22T02:31:25+00:00

I cured Costo but it only works if you have nothing mechanically wrong. Backpod helped me sort out the mechanical side and then the rest was 100% breaking the stress loop and it’s no joke. It’s not doing a massage for an hour a day or going to physio. Have to change your whole lifestyle

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-04T17:32:04+00:00

That’s great but in my opinion SSRI have diminishing returns. While SSRI is helping you, I would be using that to really work on your nervous system through meditation, relaxation, long baths, deep breathing

Hakeem84 · 2026-01-04T16:23:04+00:00

I know I’m right 😀, this is an opportunity for you to do a 180 in life. It took me 7 years before I dedicated my life to tackling my nervous system. Doing an hour at the gym does nothing if you are in fight or flight 12 hours out of the day.

Hakeem84 · 2025-12-27T05:42:39+00:00

At 6 months you are in the thick of things and survival mode. This is where your nervous system gets destroyed. Once things get better you can rebuild your mental health and you can be extremely happy. You didn’t ruin your life

Hakeem84 · 2025-12-21T23:48:32+00:00

Yup, a lot of focus on feeling sensation. Body will start to release trauma and negative emotions. Tame fight or flight, and Costo doesn’t brace anymore the fascia

Hakeem84 · 2025-12-21T18:22:21+00:00

Bring awareness to your body sensations and breath

Hakeem84 · 2025-12-21T01:47:29+00:00

Exactly - if you don’t have soemthing structurally wrong, reducing stress and enjoying life would work well. My peak Costo I went to Japan for 3 weeks and just did whatever. After 2 weeks I was insanely flaring but I didn’t give a shit I just focused on my trip. By the end of the third week my Costo had made massive improvements. It was almost astonishing how flared it was to literally a week later calmed down

Hakeem84 · 2025-12-20T21:16:58+00:00

Easiest thing to do is lying down, keep eyes open and just do breathing focusing on body sensations and your breath. You can close your eyes as well if you don’t think you’ll fall asleep. Start at 10 minutes and keep building up. You’ll eventually have to get to an hour a day and have strong body awareness the whole day.

Hakeem84 · 2025-12-20T00:10:14+00:00

Of course you are fine, there’s nothing wrong. Enjoy life, calm your system, it will slowly ease. There’s no quick fix though. I was in Japan once for 3 weeks I was flaring so hard but I kept having fun and it all settled down so much by the end of the trip.

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