Personal growth comes when we push through discomfort. Some say life begins at end of our comfort zone. Yet think of time and energy we spend keeping our loved ones and ourselves comfortable. I know I often expend my energy to stay in my comfort zone. At home and work I resist change. Eating same foods, going to same restaurants, using same services and businesses, and associating with same people, all these keep us feeling comfortable.

But with hindsight I recognize that major leaps of growth in my life always followed periods of discomfort. Familiar surroundings and situations allow us to live in a sort of autopilot mode. Do you take same route to work every day? Have you ever realized half way there that you don’t recall getting where you are? You just navigated a familiar route with little conscious effort.

Yet few sufferers or their doctors look for deeper cause of back problems. Most are simply treating symptoms without ever investigating emotional causes of back problems and pain.

It is becoming a more accepted way of thought that many physical problems with body human have a root connection to emotions. Thought and belief can affect you in a physical way! Dr. Andrew Weil of University Of Arizona is becoming famous with his approach to treating whole being instead of just body, or just symptomatically trying to eliminate diseasements.

From an emotional standpoint, main issue that affects our backs in an adverse way is feeling that one has no support in life. Feeling as if you have no one supporting you emotionally is leading emotional tie to a back problem. This feeling may be left over from childhood and have no basis in reality as an adult, but seeds of this have been sown and need to be dealt with.

Looking deep within, and then dragging this feeling to surface is best approach. Is it left from your childhood or adolescence? Is it true of your life today?

If this emotion is left from your childhood and has nothing to do with your current relationships, then it is time to release this and let it go. You can write down how you feel about ways in which you were treated, and then burn them to release them. You can seek some therapy, or try coaching for help. You might even need to actually confront people that left you feeling as if you never were supported as a child.