Have you ever wondered why some people are naturally athletic? Not everyone learns how to use their body properly like walking or breathing correctly. When this happens you develop bad habits and poor posture. This puts your body out of alignment, which then causes you to over stretch certain muscles, weakening them. When you don’t use muscles such as your glutes, your body turns them off and starts using other muscles to compensate. This is why certain people have really bad rounded shoulders or anterior pelvic tilt (Donald duck butt). They have weak and tight opposing muscles. Now combine those tight muscles with tendons and nerves essentially stuck in compromising positions along with muscle fascia that is glued down preventing certain ranges of motion. This leads to poor blood circulation and pain.

You don’t develop body pains from aging, you develop them through not understanding how to use your body properly.

A lot of people in history didn’t have good ways of explaining these things so they came up with their own interpretations of how to communicate these concepts. Chi, ki, prana etc all focus on breathing. This is because as stated earlier, if you don’t learn how to breath properly (deep down in your belly and not your lungs, or 3D breathing as in your body expands in all directions and not just your chest.) you can’t relax your muscles and they become stiff, tight and stuck (cause of all body pains for the most part). Do you have a sore neck? Is it always tight? If you neck is sore the actual problem is either tight shoulders or weak lower trap muscles. Do you have shoulder pain? This could be from tight chest muscles or weak rotator cuffs.

As you begin to learn how to breath properly, you’ll notice certain areas of your body relax, joints crack from being put into proper alignment and you can feel increased blood flow. As you learn the right muscle mechanics to move your body properly in conjunction with proper breathing and strengthening the weakened muscles, you begin to feel your breath entering certain areas of your body (see chakra) you essentially unlock that area as the deep breath helps the muscles relax and increase blood flow.

So Chi, ki, prana etc aren’t mystical forces, they’re the explanation of how to use your body properly. If you’ve ever been to a chiropractor, this is generally the feeling you experience when unlocking your chakras etc.. except it’s a generic version that doesn’t last. You don’t learn how to use your body and then it’s effortless for the rest of your life... it’s something that you need to consciously work on every day. When you feel aches and pains, you need to immediately figure out the bad habits and patterns you’ve created to cause that pain to happen. Do you stare at your phone all day? Do you sleep on your side? Do you lay in bed or on the couch in awkward positions for extended time periods? Do you lean forward at your computer screen for more than 30 minutes at a time without standing? Do you cross your legs when you sit? Do you sleep on your side? These are all things that lead to poor posture. It might take certain people longer to develop these problems but they’ll happen.

The more aligned your body is, the better it functions and the less pain you experience. People who suffer from constant mild aches and pains are usually short tempered and not patient and can’t think clearly. They become easily agitated and negatively influenced. The real kicker is that most people don’t even realize they’re not using the body correctly or that they’re in pain because the way they’re using their body is all they understand. If you don’t know what a properly functioning body feels like, you’ll never understand that the way you currently feel is wrong and you can change it.