I drew a tree on a whiteboard today.

Apples hanging at different heights — some low, some high.

(Btw this was inside one of our Movement Mastery roundtables — a group call I run for the people I work with 1:1 inside the Method).

I asked the group: if I told you to grab one apple right now, which one would you pick?

Everyone said the same thing. The lowest one. Obviously. Why climb for the top apple when the easy one is right there?

But that’s not what they did with their back pain. And that’s not what you do with yours 🫵

They started at the top - Scans, specialists, surgery talk. The expensive stuff. Before ever trying the simple, free thing sitting at the bottom of the tree - like just moving more, or drinking more water.

Now, if you’re someone who’s already done everything right and you train, stretch, had the scans, you’ve seen the PT and your back still goes the second you stop paying attention to it, you didn’t skip a step.

You skipped the first one.

You went straight for the top apple because it looked like the “real” fix, and the bottom one looked too easy to actually work.

You wake up stiff and have no idea why. You worry about your back before a meeting instead of the meeting itself. Your kid asks to go to the park and you take him in the car instead, just in case. Your scans don’t say you’re broken. So why can’t you just walk up the road?

Pick one apple. Just one. See what it actually does. Then - and only then - go for the next one. That’s how you figure anything out properly - you change one thing at a time, so you actually know what worked.

The people who get their body back don’t grab every apple at once. They start low. They go one at a time. And they stop needing ten specialists to tell them what their own body is already telling them.

If you want to learn how to pick apples - check what we do inside Movement Mastery Method:

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