Are Your Neck Exercises
A Pain In The Neck?

Neck exercises are the conventional approach in treating neck pain or stiff necks. You will probably have considered or currently do exercises for you neck in the belief that it will help alleviate your condition.

However, if you've got a stiff neck you'll have lost your natural range of movement and struggle to do the exercises anyway! More exercise could make matter worse.

Try this simple exercise... and see if it helps.

The accepted wisdom is that pain may be due to muscle weakness or imbalance, if you have eliminated other causes then this is the most likely reason.

But how do your neck muscles become weak in the first place? You can accept that doing exercises for your neck will have an effect on the muscles. But what about the other ninety-nine percent of the time? What you do with your muscles away from your exercises will have a far greater impact.

I believe that many cases of neck and shoulder pain are due to poor habits of movement. These habits include wrong use of the muscles causing some to work too hard whilst others do little.

Constant use of your neck in this way will obviously lead to uneven development. If you have not yet tried my body awareness test click on the link below and you may be surprised at the result.

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How you move your head and use your neck muscles will be based on the picture you have of your body. The exercise below will help you to redraw this picture and therefore start to change how you move and ulimately the strength of the muscles. Good use of your body during your everyday activities will readdress the imbalance issues without the need for separate exercises. If you do your neck exercises based on your old inaccurate picture of where you head and neck meet, they will serve only to re-enforce your poor habits.

Body Awareness & Movement - The Neck

This is not a neck exercise, more of an experiment that will give you a new experience of moving your head in a different way.

1. Place your both index fingers in the groove behind your ears - the joint your head moves from is roughly in between your two fingers and almost level with your eyes.

The point where the two lines cross in the photograph on the right.

2. Leave your fingers there and move your head to the left with as little effort as possible. You should be able to do this without the shoulders moving. The objective is to get the head moving with the absolute minimum amount of effort enabling you to experience movement in a different way.

3. Now look down without your neck dropping forward.

4. Move your head up and down like a see-saw pivoting from the point you located in step 1.

5. Be aware that your neck should not be supporting the weight of your head; let it's weight pass through your body into the chair or floor beneath you.

This can take a huge amount of stress and tension out of your neck and reduce considerably stiffness and pain.

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When you next do your neck exercises, check whether you are moving your head from this point, or more importantly, do you really need to do them at all? If you can use you head and neck correctly your muscles will soon re-balance themselves and in the majority of cases where muscles are a factor, real improvements are possible

There are 15 simple exercises, similar to the one you've just done, in my ebook. I can show you how to sit, stand, walk and do whatever you want to do without placing unnecessary stress on your neck.

I can guarantee that you'll not have seen this 15 unique neck exercises before, yet any one of these could be the answer to your problem.

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Are Your Neck ExercisesA Pain In The Neck?

Body Awareness & Movement - The Neck

Are Your Neck Exercises
A Pain In The Neck?