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Neck, back, and shoulder pain, can be some of the worst types of pain that we can ever experience.

And some times it can result from something as simple as the way you are sleeping in bed. I have noticed that when you dream deeply, your body position seems to stay in the same position for an overly extended period of time. And so if your neck is at a funny angle, or not being fully supported, you will often wake up with neck and shoulder pain, and also sometimes with a nasty headache. In addition, you will probably know that you were dreaming, but the headache will push all recall of the actual dream from your memory.

A double whammy of pain, and also the loss of a good dream memory.

And this is annoying for someone like me, that takes notice of and recalls my dreams, to try to make some sense of what I think they are trying to tell me.

Anyway when this happens to me, I have several good ways that I will follow to try, and so alleviate the pain a bit. One method I use, is just to massage a good pain relieving cream into the muscles, and rub them for several minutes. And then I will perform some stretching exercises. Over the years I have come across some particularly effective stretching exercises, and which I will endeavour to explain for you here.

Neck Exercises: Utilising 3 levels of Stretching.

The first exercise that I do is to twist my head to the side, starting with the left side, for example. I will look over my left shoulder, trying to touch my shoulder with my chin, and then to try to keep extending this stretch. From there, I will place my flat fingers against the right side of my face, along the jaw line, and push my head around just a little bit further.

This is called assisted, or extended stretching.

And then as a third movement, starting from the head in the stretched sideways position now, I will now try to move, or push my head back to a frontward facing position, whilst at the same time, applying pressure, or resistance from the holding right hand, to try to prevent this actual movement from occurring. This is not a statically equalised position, but a dynamically moving holding pressure. You will know the right amount of pressure to use after trying this movement. The whole idea is to keep the head moving constantly.

You can repeat each individual movement in this sequence individually once again now, or repeat the whole combined movement set again in the one super set, as it is often referred to as.

Now onto my second exercise. I will stretch my

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