Pain or change?

Most of us are used to automatically associating pain in our bodies with something negative - an injury, misuse, etc. In fact, this is why a lot of people seek out GST: to heal themselves of pain that that they may just have come to accept or that nothing else can alleviate. GST can help that kind of pain in ways you've never imagined.

I personally came to GST when I was recovering from an injury that other teachers and professionals had just kind of shrugged about and told me I would recover from in time, but that time would be at least 6 months if not longer. Not only did I end up rehabbing that injury, but I gained more range of motion than I had ever had before and with GST, I was able to actually correct the source of what would have become a increasingly serious repetitive stress injury. Actually, now that I think about it, I haven't had any injuries in my ankles or knees since starting GST - both of which gave me problems in my time as a dancer ever since high school.

But, that doesn't mean that throughout this process, I haven't encountered "pain." Obviously, if you are attempting to change your body, breaking old movement habits and returning to your organic state, you will experience discomfort, muscle soreness, and sometimes pain. This can be alarming for people who are new to GST, but as you progress with it and stick it out, you learn to distinguish between this kind of transformational pain and the kind of pain that happens when you're injured. You begin to find that the pain is almost a good sign - it means that you're doing something that is challenging your body to change, opening up tight joints or muscles, and getting into your body deeper than ever before. And that negative injury related pain will disappear, even if you've had it for years.