Learn
the Power of Aroma Therapy
A Stretch
to Help Keep
Your Tension Headaches
from Coming Back
Here's an excellent stretch you can begin practicing now: the behind-the-back stretch. It can be done sitting or standing.
If you're going to sit, make sure you have a chair with backing that
comes halfway up your back./
Hook your arms over the back of the chair and pull
your shoulder blades together (if you're standing, assume the military
position: head up, shoulders back and stomach tight).
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As you do this, make sure you stick your chest out. As this is very
important, you should exaggerate a little bit - and make sure you keep you
head up, too./ Pull
your shoulder blades together until you feel a pull in your shoulder joints.
Don't go overboard on this; you don't want to cause any pain./
Now hold this stretch for three full
minutes (don't cheat and quit early; the length of this stretch is very
important). At
the end of this stretch, you should feel your back muscles loosen a bit; you
may even feel a warm rush of blood up the back of your neck.
Take breaks throughout the day to perform this
stretch - it will help a lot!
It's critical that you diligently practice stretches to correct your posture
because just undergoing my soft tissue technique alone will NOT
permanently get rid of your chronic tension headaches.You
must correct your posture to get permanent relief from your chronic tension
headaches.
If you don't correct the mechanism that caused the problem - any problem -
that problem will just come back.
