Root of the problem? 🫚 · The Mobility Collective

Daniel Adler

Sep 2 (edited) in Community Board

Root of the problem? 🫚

We are obsessed with getting to the root of the problem.

What is the problem?

How can I remove it?

We are convinced that the body works like this.

As if there is a twig stuck in a pipe and if we can just remove the twig, everything will be smooth again.

I wish it was that simple, but that’s not how it works.

You see, there is a million things affecting our health simultaneously that are constantly changing and a million other things that interplay with our body.

The functionality of our system is in a constant state of clicking “reload” button.

New information, emotions, stimulus, force, and stress being thrown into the system daily, and a general feeling coming out on the other end.

To try to understand the root of the problem is not only impossible but when you truly zoom out, it’s foolish.

Let’s take a better approach. Let’s assume that our body will feel better if things work the way they are supposed to.

Your muscles should contract, your joints should articulate, your mind should be healthy , your ribcage/lungs should expand well, your food should be organic, your sleep should be plentiful, your house should clean, your neck should be mobile. your hips should be strong. Your hamstrings should be strong. Your cardio should be respectable. Your core should be strong. Your lunge should be stable.

Now if anything I just said is off, then any salesman can say “that’s the root of the problem” and if you continue to believe the health coach, you will agree and say “yes” that’s the root!

We’ve figured it out!

Then you will spend $1000 on the best food and new mattress, then say…wow I feel better.

Then someone else says, you know, your quad isn’t strong, that’s why your knee hurts, then you do quad extension and your knee feels better, until it doesn’t.

Then the next injury coach says no it’s your pelvis alignment, and you say, ohhhhh, yes, that makes sense!!

My last coach says it was my spine, but pelvis, now we’re on to something.

And again we go with pelvis exercises on YouTube.

I mean, isn’t that just really exhausting????

Can we please throw away “root of the problem” thinking. It doesn’t work unless we are talking about mechanical things like fixing a car.

Stop falling for the junk of the modern health economy.

Take your SYSTEM SERIOUSLY

😳

Daniel

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