Try Less, Heal More: How Remote Trauma Release Enhances the Yoga of Life

“You don’t have to try so hard,” he muttered to me flatly, almost to himself.

We don't have to try to love a puppy.

Casey expertly externally rotated my forward arm and gently repositioned my lead leg, then returned to his rounds. He was modifying my extended side angle pose, part of the Ashtanga primary series. It’s a posture I had done hundreds of times and held for thousands of breaths. Back in Orange County where I was first exposed to yoga, (“city yoga”, as it was disparagingly referred to in my classical yoga teacher training) I was often coached to do just the opposite. Try harder that is. Bend my knee deeper, sweat more, feel the burn. In my yoga practice and in my life, I’m more and more that we really don’t have to try so hard.

There’s irony in that it is in my Ashtanga practice, a notoriously physically demanding style of Asana, that I’m disciplined again and again to try less, do less, and be more patient. “This practice will fuck you up if you take it too hard” said my teacher. As a meditator, a mover, a dog dad, and a chiropractor, I agree across the board. Turns out it was the effort that was holding me back, not the lack of it.

It’s a wild thing to really wrap your body and mind around. Not just as a concept, but to really feel it. The more I show up, the less I try, the more my body unwinds. It begs the question, where else is efforting actually self-defeating? And perhaps more importantly, why am I trying so hard in the first place when I know that it doesn't help?

The source of striving - bound trauma and emotion in the body

It's not a conscious thing. Our striving is programmed into us by old undigested emotions and bound trauma that have congealed into self-perpetuating limiting beliefs and action loops. This leaves us striving again and again, over efforting, over eating, over trying.

It's why one of my clients kept running until his ankle got re-injured. It's why I used to train so hard I would get sick. It's not helpful. It's not rational. It's emotional.

We can use remote trauma healing to undo these patterns so you can finally start to rest. Then then your body, and the universe, starts working for you.

A wise quote from our friend, Rob

When we stop trying, the healing begins

Healing is the natural order of things. It’s an unlearning, an unwinding, and an undoing, an un-efforting. We can work so hard to have the perfect diets, yet fasting remains one of the most powerful healers there is. While we rest, the entire constellation of our body conspires towards wholeness. While we pause, the whole universe spins around us. Truly, we don’t have to try so hard.

This “‘trying” is stored into our nervous systems, which is why it’s so hard to relax even when we want to. This truth reaffirms my passion for nervous system based chiropractic. We can release this trauma and live happier, freer lives. To deliver this technology is humbling and inspiring.

I pray you too can try less and receive more and find the technologies that empower you to do so. When you're ready to dive deeper with remote trauma release so you can get unstuck in your healing and growth, book a free call with me. Let it be easy, my friend.

In gratitude,

Dr. Kent

Hi, I’m Dr. Kent.

I’m a remote chiropractor using kinesiology to help clients release trauma, reclaim energy, and realize their potential. Trauma bound in our bodies keeps us perpetually in stress, and when we’re in stress nothing works. If you’re ready to heal the root cause behind your pain then check my website and book a free discovery call here.