Organs, Emotions and Pain: The Hidden Connection Doctors Ignore With Matt Sorensen

In this pharmaceutical drug obsessed culture we live in, could you ever imagine a gentler, healthier approach to treating chronic headaches starting with an appendix scar?

CHEK Professional Matt Sorensen explains why most health problems like pain originate from dysfunctions to the glands and organs which illustrates why health practitioners need to look for complications from the inside — not the outside — this week on Spirit Gym.

Learn more about Matt at his HealHub website. Check out his The Wizard and The Priestess podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to them. Find him on social media via Instagram.

For Spirit Gym listeners: Based in Sydney, Matt is offering Spirit Gym listeners a very special 30 percent discount on his programs at this link. Use the promo code CHEK30 at checkout. (Special offers from Spirit Gym guests are time-sensitive and at their discretion to redeem after 30 days.)

2:47 Being a groundskeeper for nearly a decade helped Matt better appreciate the health of soil.

6:19 Matt’s professional life shifted after his father was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

13:15 An unhealthy migration from a results-based (integration) to a research-based (isolated) medical system.

20:36 Matt’s successful treatment for a client with severe headaches began by locating an appendix scar.

29:06 Visceral manipulation.

40:15 Organ motility.

47:07 Medicine is often practiced from the outside inward rather than the inside outward.

58:40 How often is the origin of pain is really a symptom or dysfunction of the glands or organs?

1:03:14 “Generally, if someone’s got a visceral issue, they’ve got a vascular issue too.”

1:24:25 The story you tell yourself affects your health more than any food or drink can.

1:30:09 The conventional definition of good postural alignment is based on dead people in a morgue.

1:45:00 Matt estimates roughly 85 percent of a person’s visceral or glandular problems start with lifestyle and diet.

1:52:23 The challenges Matt faces with patients during a recent week.

2:05:22 Different emotions reside in various organs. (Grief is held in the lungs while anger holds court in the liver.)

2:11:45 Shaking medicine.

2:22:21 Using a foam roller effectively and stretching the right way can be helpful in normalizing gland and organ function.

2:27:33 Good breathing is essential for organ motility.

What Pain is Telling You (Spotify audiobook) by Matt Sorensen

The Missing Link (Spotify audiobook) by Matt Sorensen

What Pain is Telling You (book) by Matt Sorensen

Doing the Wrong Things Right by Matt Sorensen

Scientific Core Conditioning 2^nd edition

The Barral Institute

Upledger Institute International

Wolff’s law

Behavioral optometry

The Vodder method of manual lymph drainage

How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy 20^th anniversary edition

Lordosis

Kyphosis

Phrenic nerve

Drug Facts and Comparisons (2017)

The work of Francis Pottenger, Dr. Michael Mosley, Major Bertrand DeJarnette, Mabel Todd and Angeles Arrien

Paul’s Spirit Gym conversation with Nancy Mellon

Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy by Dr. Frank Netter

Paul explains the CHEK Totem Pole on YouTube

Paul demonstrates how to use a foam roller to release the abdominal wall on YouTube

Muscles Testing and Function by Florence Kendall

Body Eloquence: The Power of Myth to Awaken the Body’s Energies by Nancy Mellon

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