How to Master Change
4 levels of mastery
1. unconscious incompetence - you don't know how good you are at something - low energy required
2. conscious incompetence - you know that you've got a lot to learn - high energy requirement
3. conscious competence - a degree of being good at something but it still requires effort - high energy requirement
4. unconscious competence - you can practically do it with your eyes closed. - low energy requirement
Walking
As a baby, you are initially unconsciously incompetent at walking, you don't know what you don't know
As a toddler, you become consciously incompetent using tables, chairs and tools to help hold you up - takes a lot of energy! You'll fall, a lot!
Between 1 and 2 usually you'll develop into conscious competence - still needs work but almost automatic. It takes time and still some effort but you're decent at it.
Then 2 - 3 upwards you'll develop unconscious competence. autopilot mode switches on. Your brain wants this - it's easy, takes virtually no brain processing power.
PROBLEM
We pick up different habits along the way. They get programmed into our auto-pilot mode.
They might be beneficial, they might not be.
Over time you've learnt how to sit, how to stand and move.
That has effected your muscles, which in turn effects your auto pilot mode for walking
and then injuries may begin to happen, chronic pain
back pain
knee pain
headaches
ankle problems
tight and sore muscles
everything else
Your auto-pilot is malfunctioning.
how to change, go back into stage 2 - conscious incompetence.
Reprogram, consciously change how you move.
This was one of the first things I learnt with the AMN Academy - how to improve someone's movement by re-engaging the brain into basic movements like squats.
Put someone back into learning mode, that's where neurological change happens.
That's how pain changes, that's how injuries get fixed.
Learn a different way to move.
I've now learnt how to change peoples programming from a physical viewpoint online.
If you're struggling with auto-pilot mode (it's where we ideally want to be but it might be malfunctioning) then get in touch email: info@retrainpain.co.uk
watch the video explanation here: https://vimeo.com/490788575