Do you feel tension, discomfort, pain and restriction in the muscles of your back?

Would you like to learn a simple way to relax your tight back muscles?

Today's show's an audio version of one of the most popular posts on the back Pain Liberation Blog which was first published way back in 2016, before I started podcasting.

It's all about something called the Relaxation Response, which was a phrase coined by Dr. Herbert Benson professor of mind-body medicine at Harvard Medical School no less

Way back when I was taking my first, tentative steps into self-help for my back problems I stumbled upon a relaxation tape in a record shop.

It may be, depending how old you are, that you have no idea what I just said. Let me explain.

This was the mid-1990s. CDs had been around for a while but there was no internet for the general public. No-one imagined that we would be streaming music via our computers and phones.

We listened to recordings on vinyl and cassette tapes - and we had to go to a record store to buy them....this was how we rolled in those days.

Just listening to that tape and following the relaxation technique helped me to achieve what all the treatments and therapies I had tried so far had failed to do.

My tight back muscles relaxed and the pain eased off.

I think it's an important post so I've published an updated and revised version on the blog.

And, of course, I don't want all my listeners to the podcast to miss out so here goes with the new, improved tense back relaxation blog post for you now.