Should I Limit Exercise With an Inguinal Hernia?

Hey guys, I wanted to write this post to answer a question that I get asked a lot of times, which is mostly from people that just find out that they have a hernia.

The Question:

Should I limit my exercise with an inguinal hernia?

They want to know if they have to stop exercising, or doing the things that they love so they don’t make the hernia worse.

My Experience

I can’t really tell you what you should do since I’m not a doctor or a physical therapist. I’m just a guy that’s been dealing with a hernia for a long time. I can only tell you about my experience, and the way that I went about it.

When I first got my hernia it was driving me crazy. With everything that I did, I would have to hold back. I couldn’t surf or do anything else the way I used to because I was constantly worried about the hernia popping out all the time. It was always on my mind. I couldn’t focus on what I was actually doing, and it was literally making me miserable.

So I tried a bunch of different hernia belts. None of them worked. They all sucked, basically. They were not designed by somebody who actually had a hernia, and really didn’t do anything for me. Most of them had huge, hard pads in the front. I couldn’t even lay down on my surfboard with this big pad that was digging into the hernia. It just didn’t work for me. I was constantly having to worry about the hernia all the time, even with a hernia belt on.

The Solution To My Problem

That’s when I decided to design the Comfort-Truss. Once I did that, it completely freed me up to be able to just let go of having to think about the hernia all the time. I didn’t have to worry about it blowing out anymore. Surfing, running, doing Muay Thai, and all the other things that I wanted to do were no longer a problem. I could go all out, and not have to really think about the hernia at all.

That changed everything for me. Once I did that, it kind of freed up my mind to focus on healing, rather than just focusing on the management of the hernia every day. Now that I wasn’t consumed by the fact that I was constantly having to hold back, it made everything easier for me.

I wasn’t willing to stop doing all the things that I love to do. If I had to stop, and I wasn’t able to figure out the design of the Comfort-Truss, I most likely would’ve gotten surgery. The place where my mind was at back then, I was literally going insane because of the hernia. That all stopped once I figured out the design of the Comfort-Truss, and was able to not have to worry about the hernia anymore.

Conclusion

I’m not trying to say that if you get a Comfort-Truss,  it will definitely have the same affect on you as it did for me. For me personally, it was the exactly what I needed in order to move forward and make progress toward healing. But, everyone’s situation is different, and every hernia is different. Everyone has to weigh their options regarding surgery and a natural hernia cure. The outcome will be different for everyone. What will you decide?

Should I Wear A Hernia Belt?

I wanted to do this post to answer a question that I get asked a lot of times, which is “Should I wear a hernia belt for an inguinal hernia?”.  I guess a lot of people go to the doctor, or the surgeon, and get advice that they shouldn’t wear a hernia belt because they say that it’s going to weaken the muscles that are used to hold the abdominal contents in place. I get what they’re saying, but the way that I always viewed it was, the reason that I had a hernia was because I had a weakness in the musculature surrounding the inguinal canal. So, if I already have a weakness there, then why wouldn’t I want to put something in place (the hernia belt) to be able to hold the abdominal contents back while I strengthen the muscle? Then I would slowly be able to take the hernia belt off as the muscle gets strong enough to hold the abdominal contents back.

This is the way that I did it. I wore the hernia belt all day every day from the time I woke up in the morning to the time I went to bed at night. I only took it off to take a shower. In the meanwhile, I was doing the workout that I have on my YouTube channel to strengthen the musculature around the inguinal canal. Then, once I felt like I could take off the hernia belt off for periods of time where the hernia wouldn’t poke out anymore, I would do that to wean myself off of wearing the hernia belt so that the musculature could get strong enough and get used to holding the abdominal contents back.

Think about it like this: If you had nothing wrong with your legs, and you were in a wheelchair, and you used the wheelchair all the time every day, all day.  Over a couple of months or a couple of years, you probably wouldn’t be able to stand up any more because your muscles would be so weak from depending on that wheelchair all the time.

It’s the same thing with the hernia belt. Once your muscles are strong enough, of course you’re going to want to take the hernia belt off and let the muscles do the work to hold the abdominal contents back. At first though, you already have a weakness in the inguinal canal, which is the reason why you have a hernia. That’s why you need something to hold the abdominal contents in while you can strengthen up the weak muscle. That’s my take on it.

One thing I think that’s worth mentioning is this: I don’t think that anyone that has an inguinal hernia that’s not reducible (able to be pushed back into the abdomen) should wear a hernia belt at all, because if the hernia is not reducible, then basically with the hernia belt you’re just smashing the hernia into your pelvis.

I’m not a doctor or a physical therapist. This is my experience from what I did, and from what I’ve learned over the past five years that I’ve been dealing with my hernia, so don’t take this as medical advice.

Diet For Inguinal Hernia

Best Diet For Inguinal Hernia

Have you ever wondered what the best diet for inguinal hernia is? Me too. I am still trying to figure that one out. A while back I thought that cutting meat completely out of my diet would be a good thing to help heal my hernia naturally. But what I figured out by trial and error is a little different.

Gluten Free

For the past 20 years or so I’ve been eating a very clean diet of all organic food. I never really have eaten all that much red meat, but I did eat a lot of chicken and fish. I went gluten free a few years ago, which has made the biggest difference in how I feel. The first time I tried it I went for 30 days with no gluten. I didn’t feel very much different, but after the thirty days, I went back and ate some food containing gluten, and couldn’t believe how terrible I felt. I felt bloated, gassy, tired, run down, and just overall not good.

So I went back to not eating gluten after that for three months this time. I tried eating gluten again at the end of the three months, and felt even worse than the first time, so since then I just don’t eat gluten. Gluten is extremely inflammatory for the intestines which is definitely not good if you have a hernia. I’m not sure if gluten has this affect on everyone, but for me I feel best when I don’t eat it.

Fish (Mercury) Free

I also stopped eating fish a few years ago because I ended up getting mercury poisoning from it. I used to go fishing offshore at least twice a month, and caught lots of Mahi. We always had a stack of fish in our freezer that we would eat for dinner at least 3 times a week. After a while, I realized that I was having a lot of trouble sleeping, and being tired during the day. My memory was terrible. It was like having early Alzheimer’s symptoms. I was wired all night as I laid in bed trying to sleep, and severely tired all day to the point that if I sat down in a chair for 5 minutes I would fall asleep. This was not like me at all, so I knew there was something wrong.

I ended going to get a hair test done which showed an insane amount of mercury had built up in my body. My holistic doctor put me on a bunch of supplements that I took for a period of over about a year to detox from the mercury. So needless to say, I cut fish out of my diet completely.

Sugar Free

This was a tough one for me. My wife is a big dessert lover, so it seemed like we always had some sort of dessert after dinner every night. I did a bunch of research on the causes of inflammation, and it turns out that ingesting sugar is a major contributor. I know that inflammation of the intestines is not good for a hernia so I cut it out of my diet.

It turns out that less intestinal swelling was not the only benefit that I saw from removing sugar from my diet. I have also seen a decrease in general aches and pains. Also, I seem to recover from hard workouts with less soreness. That alone would be enough for me to not want to eat sugar anymore. But with all the benefits together it really is a no brainer.

Meat Free

I started eating a completely vegetarian diet in March of 2018. I did it for personal reasons of not wanting to kill animals to live if I didn’t have to, but also because I thought it might be good for the hernia as well. It seamed like before, when my hernia was more pronounced and would poke out, if I ate meat it would tend to poke out even more. It was like the meat was too heavy in my intestines.

Once I started eating vegetarian, I really didn’t feel all that different because I wasn’t eating a huge amount of meat before anyway. One thing I did notice though was that I was having a hard time recovering from hard workouts. I would feel run down for three days afterward.

There has been no change in the status of my hernia at all for over eight months since the time I went vegetarian. I am so close to having my hernia 100% healed, but I believe that this diet may be holding back from the extra push that I need to get all the way there.

I’m not sure if it’s the missing protein, or the lack of essential amino acids that wasn’t allowing me to see further results with my hernia.

Changes I’m Making To My Diet Now

For all of the reasons listed in the above paragraph, I have started adding a small amount of meat back into my diet. After just one week, I can already feel the difference. I’m not getting the weird feeling that I would sometimes get in the area of the hernia whenI’m in a forward sitting position. I also already feel stronger, and am able to recover from workouts much easier.

Like I said, I’m not 100% sure what the reason is for the changes that I feel, but I will keep you guys updated on how it goes!

How I Fixed My Anterior Pelvic Tilt To Fix My Hernia

Why A Mobility Exercise To Fix My Hernia?

I realized, after writing on this blog for a few years while trying to fix my hernia, and talking to tons of people with inguinal hernias, that we all had a few things in common. Most of us have some sort of pelvic postural problem, usually anterior pelvic tilt. It’s usually coupled with back pain or tension, and tight hamstrings. Once I realized this I thought that this had to be a contributing factor to why people end up getting hernias in the first place.

There is a story about a guy who was able to heal his hernia naturally by walking on his toes. So I decided to give this a try for a little while to see if it would make any difference for me. What I noticed after a few weeks of walking around on my toes without allowing my heals to touch the ground, was that all that was doing was causing me to rotate my pelvis under just enough to alleviate the anterior pelvic tilt that I didn’t even realize I had up until then. The crazy thing is that it was actually working to make my hernia pop out a lot less.

What Is Anterior Pelvic Tilt?

Basically anterior pelvic tilt (A.P.T.) is when your the top of your pelvis is tilted forward a bit too far. Imagine your pelvis as a cup that’s full of liquid. If the cup is tilted forward too far, the contents of the cup will spill out, and you’ll have a big mess to clean up. Well, your pelvis is the same. If it is tilted too far forward it skews the musculature that is connected to it and causes all sorts of tension in places where there should not be tension.  All that tension leads to injury, such as a tear in the abdominal wall that allows your intestine to sneak through. (hint hint) See the connection?

Anterior Pelvic tilt looks like this:

Fix My Hernia

Photo Courtesy of builtwithscience.com

 

Before you get all crazy about fixing your pelvic tilt, you need to make sure that you actually have APT to begin with. Your pelvis is supposed to have a small amount of tilt to the front. Usually about 7º, but if yours is tilted more than that, you have APT. Here is a great video on how to assess your pelvic situation:

 

I Have Anterior Pelvic Tilt, Now What?

If you did the test in the above video, and figured out that you do have anterior pelvic tilt, you can follow the exercise that I go through in the video below to fix it. Because I realized the connection that APT has to being able to fix my hernia, I did this exercise every day for about a month and fixed my APT. I still do this at least a few times a week to keep my hip flexors including the psoas nice and loose.

The exercise

To do this exercise you’ll need a good resistance band. I got the one that I use from Rogue Fitness. You will also need a strong place to wrap the band around.

Step One:

Wrap one end of the band around something strong enough to hold it at about waist height or lower. Most of the time I do this inside the house. When I do, I wrap the band around a door knob like this:

Fix APT to Fix MY Hernia

Make sure you have a strong door if you do it this way so you don’t rip the door off the hinges!

 

Step Two:

Put your left leg through the band, bringing the band up into the crease between your hamstring and butt while stepping back to create tension.

Step Three:

Take a knee with the left leg. Keep your left knee directly underneath your body, and the top of your left foot flat on the ground. Your right leg should be out at 90º with a bent knee, and the sole of your right foot should be flat on the ground.

Step Four:

With the band distracting your femur into the front of the hip socket, shift your weight forward over your grounded knee while squeezing your glute and keeping your stomach tight.

Step Five:

Hold that position or move in and out of your end range slowly for about two minutes.

Step Six:

Follow steps one through five for the right side.

 

Side note: If you cannot hold the hernia in on your own, make sure you’re wearing a hernia belt while doing this exercise.

 

Conclusion

In order to fix my hernia, I knew that I would have to get my pelvis aligned correctly, and this was the perfect exercise to accomplish that. Give it a shot and let me know what you think!

 

Hernia Workout

I’ve been doing the 1916 hernia workout that I have posted on my YouTube channel for a while now, and I got to a point where I was doing so many reps that it was taking me forever to get through it. I ended up adding some five pound ankle weights to my ankles in order to put some more resistance into it, and that way I could lower the reps back down to 10, and start back up from there. This takes much less time than doing 50 reps of every exercise.

I’m up to 18 reps now, and basically, I noticed that I’m definitely building muscle right on top of the pelvis, right in the inguinal area where the hernia was, but the muscles are getting a lot bigger on the right side (the side without the hernia) than on the left side (the hernia side). So what I’m going to do, is try to isolate the left side more than the right side during the exercises in the hernia workout where I can.

Some of the exercises where you’re going around with both knees and things like that, I’m going to do half the amount of reps that I would normally do for the right side, and then all the reps for left side. So, I’m just really going to start focusing on targeting just the left side a lot more, but I’m going to keep the exercise going a little bit for the right side too. I just want to see if I can build up the left side as much as the right side has been built up. There’s noticeable difference when I look down. I can really see the difference in the muscle development that’s going on.

I feel like this hernia workout is an important piece of the puzzle in healing a hernia naturally, but not quite as important as the ab vacuum. What do you think?

Directional Breathing | Meditation For Inguinal Hernia

How To Use Directional Breathing To Heal An Inguinal Hernia

I refer to this as directional breathing because basically what I am doing is focusing the energy of my breath directly to the hernia site with my inhale, then pulling away negative energy and getting rid of it with my exhale.

Get Into A Comfortable Position

In the video I di this while sitting in a meditating position to make it easier to film, but I actually do this while lying down on my back.

First I get completely relaxed. Focusing on my feet first, I make my body feel heavy against the ground thinking about each part of my body sinking into the floor. I work my up thinking about my legs, then my butt, then my back, my neck, my arms and hands, and my head.

Focus On Your Breath

Once I’m comfortable, I start to think about my breathing. I take a beep breath in and fill up the bottom of my lungs first, then the top of the lungs. While I am inhaling I am picturing in my mind that the air that I am breathing in is crisp and cold like a chilly winter day. I picture the air flowing into my body and going directly to the hernia.

At the bottom of my breath I start to envision two thumbs kneading the fascia where the hole of the hernia is and pushing it together. Then I exhale deeply, but somewhat restricting the outflow of air with my lips. While I am exhaling, I am envisioning black smoke like that of a semi truck pulling a heavy load up a mountain.

Visualization Is Everything

Really concentrate on the visualization in your mind. I feel like the visualization is more important than the breathing. If you feel like you are having a tough time visualizing, maybe scale back the depth of your breath a little bit so that you can focus better.

How Often and For How Long?

I do this maybe  once a week for a few minutes, or however long I feel like I can do it and hold concentration. The mind body connection is a powerful thing! I have gone from having an inguinal hernia the size of two golf balls together in the inguinal canal, to having no lump, and no pressure at all. This is part of how I got to this point.

 

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Healing Inguinal Hernia With Exercise

Is It Possible?

If you don’t already follow me, you probably came across this page because you were doing an internet search to see if it is possible to heal an inguinal hernia with exercise. You have probably been seeing about a million other web pages that say that it is not possible, and that the only way to fix a hernia is through surgery.

Well, I’m here to tell you that that is 100% bullshit! If you read through this blog you can see my whole story about trying to heal my inguinal hernia naturally without surgery. Why I started, what I had to work through, everything. But I’ll make a long story short here.

I’ve had an inguinal hernia for over 4 years. It was about the size of 2 golf balls next to each other in the inguinal canal when it poked out, which was all the time from the moment I got out of bed in the morning. It was never painful, but it was super annoying especially because I’m an extremely active guy.

Absolutely It Is Possible

I worked to figure out the best way to go about healing my inguinal hernia naturally with absolutely no results until about six months ago. That’s when everything I was doing just started clicking. Through trial and error I figured it out! Literally within three weeks my inguinal hernia was half the size. Then 3 months later it was the size of an M&M. Now I am at a point where the hernia does not poke out ever. I never feel pressure at all except a tiny bit when I am in a forward sitting position.

What Do I Have To Do?

You have to commit to putting in the work. Your inguinal hernia is not just going to get better by itself. There is a weakness in the muscles and fascia that hold the intestine in place which is why you have a hernia in the first place. Strengthen those muscles, and you are one step closer to getting to the point where your hernia will be gone.

If you are not willing to put in the work, then you might as well just go get surgery because healing will never happen.

If you are willing to put in the work, then I think you will find that these exercises hit the spot perfectly. They are designed to target the muscles around the inguinal canal in order to hold the abdominal contents in place, and they do exactly that.

Now I’m not saying that these exercise alone are going to be able to cure every inguinal hernia out there, because there is a lot more that goes into it than just this, but they will get you moving in the right direction.

If your interested in seeing what else I’ve had to do in order to get my inguinal hernia where it is now (there are a few key things), feel free to check out some of my other posts and my youtube channel.

Here Are The Exercises

Healing An Inguinal Hernia With Exercise

Regardless of what the medical establishment will tell you, you can heal an inguinal hernia with exercise. These are the most effective exercises I have found to get it done:

  • Exercise #1 Leg Pulls
  • Exercise #2 Sleeping Bag (or pillow) Squeeze
  • Exercise #3 Leg L’s
  • Exercise #4 Reverse Swim
  • Exercise #5 V-Ups
  • Exercise #6 Knee Circle Leg Extensions
  • Exercise #7 V-Downs
  • Exercise #8 Around The World
  • Exercise #9 Straight Leg Sit-Ups
  • Exercise #10 Straight Leg Side Ups

I also do a couple yoga breathing exercises that you can see here.

How Often Should I Do It?

From my experience about 2-3 times a week is the max. When I first tried it I was doing it more than that, but I quickly realized that the muscles would get really fatigued and the hernia would want to poke out more often. So I cut it back to 2 times a week, and it was perfect. Start slow and don’t go crazy. For some people it’s hard to start slow (me included), but believe me, it will be much better if you do.

How Long Will I Have To Do This?

Probably forever at some level. Every time you do the workout you go up 1 rep for each exercise. By the time I got to 30 reps I felt like I didn’t need to wear the hernia belt  anymore to keep my hernia from poking out. But the last thing you want to do is get to that point, then just stop the workout. I plan on doing these for the rest of my life in order to keep the area strong and reduce the risk of the hernia popping out again.

Recently, I got to a point where I was doing 50 reps of each exercise. The workout was taking me so long that I decided to strap some 5lbs weights to my ankles and start back over at 10 reps. I’ll keep you guys posted on how it goes!

Remember, without commitment you have nothing. If you don’t want surgery, then don’t get it! Commit yourself to healing and you will heal. The body is a healing machine.

Inguinal Hernia Healed Without Surgery?

Five Best Ways To Treat Inguinal Hernia Without Surgery

Are you looking for ways to treat inguinal hernia without surgery? Well, you’re not the only one. Since I have been writing this blog and making videos for my youtube channel, I have been asked by a lot of people how I manage my hernia on a day-to-day basis without having to get surgery. So I figured I would write a post about it and let you know the five most important things I do to manage inguinal hernia without surgery. I will summarize them quickly below, then elaborate in the following paragraphs.

Remember, this is not medical advice, but only the things that I do in order to manage my hernia day to day without having to get surgery.

 

 

How to Treat Inguinal Hernia Without Surgery

  1. Wear a hernia belt
  2. Hold it with your hand when coughing, sneezing, or straining
  3. Walk lightly on your feet
  4. Stay away from foods that inflame the intestines
  5. Do exercises to strengthen the inner and outer obliques and transverse abdominals

Wear a Hernia Belt

Wearing a hernia belt is probably the most important way to treat inguinal hernia without surgery. You may know that I have developed a hernia belt that I use every day. For me, I wasn’t able to find one that I could wear comfortably during all the activities that I like to do, and still have the confidence to go all out without holding back. So I had to design one for myself. It might be for sale by the time you read this. I’m not saying that you have to buy the one that I designed, but you have to find one that fits your lifestyle. One that you can wear every day, all day, without having to worry about the hernia popping out on you.

I can’t stress to you enough how important I think this is. If the hernia is allowed to keep pushing through the hole in the inguinal canal, it will continue to get worse and worse until eventually it will push down into your scrotum and become irreducible. Once that happens I don’t believe that there will be anything you can do but get hernia surgery. Find one that you can wear from the time you get out of bed to the time you go to sleep. Only take it off when you are in the shower.

Hold It With Your Hand When Coughing or Straining

Personally, even though I wear the hernia belt all day every day, I still like to hold the hernia with my hand any time I cough, sneeze, poop, and sometimes when I laugh really hard.  The most important would probably be when pooping. Not only do I hold the side that my hernia’s on, but I hold the other side too. I’ve talked to too many guys who got their hernia from straining while on the toilet. It’s better to be safe than sorry. I would hate to protect the side that already has the hernia, and end up having one pop out on the other side.

Walk Lightly on Your Feet

This might sound weird, but it really is very important. Especially if you’re on your feet a lot. Think about the constant pounding that happens every time you slam your heels down on the ground when walking. It’s like you are hammering your intestine down into the hole where the hernia is. Anything you can do to mitigate the pounding will help. I walk barefoot 95% of the time for this reason. You will walk much softer barefoot than with shoes on. If I do need to wear shoes I wear Vans or something with flat soles. Any shoe that doesn’t have a lot of padding. I also try to walk in a way that is not heal-toe. I sort of put my whole foot on the ground at the same time (almost toe-heal)  which makes for a much softer step.

Stay Away From Foods That Inflame The Intestine

Diet to treat inguinal hernia without surgeryThis is another very important way to treat inguinal hernia without surgery. I do not eat gluten because it is very inflammatory for the intestine. I feel bloated and tired when I eat it. If it is inflammatory to the intestine, it is causing inter-abdominal pressure. This is not good if your intestine is already trying to push through the weakness in the inguinal canal. I also stay away from sugar since it is inflammatory as well. Sometimes, I eat a small amount of chicken, but I’m almost vegetarian. I noticed that when I eat meat I feel more pressure on the hernia.

When trying to treat inguinal hernia without surgery, diet plays a huge role. The problem is that reactions to certain foods are vastly different from person to person. What works for me, might be different than what works for you. The key is to experiment to see which foods are working for you or against you. You can do this by eliminating a certain food that you might think is causing gas, bloating, or constipation for 30 days. Then, after 30 days, consume the food again to see if it causes an adverse effect. If it does, then it would probably be a good idea to eliminate that food item from your diet.

Do Exercises to Strengthen the Inner and Outer Obliques and Transverse Abdominals

I have an exercise regimen that I’ve been doing to treat inguinal hernia without surgery that you can see by going to my youtube channel. I found these exercises in a medical journal from way back in 1915. The osteopathic doctor who wrote it used this exercise regimen with his patients to heal inguinal hernias. It does a really good job of tightening up the muscles that are used to hold the hernia in place. I also do a few easy yoga breathing exercises that I think make a world of difference. They work to tighten up the transverse abs. Those are the muscles that are directly around the hole in the inguinal canal where the hernia comes out. My thinking is that if I can tighten these muscles up, they will work to hold the intestine in place, and not let it slip through the canal.

Since I have been doing these exercises I have noticed a huge change in how much the hernia pokes out, and how often I feel pressure in the area.

More Thoughts on How To Treat Inguinal Hernia Without Surgery

I think that one of the most important things to mention is that if you follow these five things, and still feel like you can’t manage the hernia without surgery, KEEP TRYING. These things have worked for me over the past few years, but everyone is different. There might be a few small tweaks you have to make to be able to have a high quality of life without getting the surgery. If your mind is absolutely set that you do not want to get surgery, just keep at it. Eventually, you will figure out exactly what you have to do to manage it. It took me a few years to get to the point where I am now, but hopefully, by posting this, I can help you get there a lot sooner. Good Luck!

Update 9/2022 –

Since originally writing this post I was able to get my hernia to be 100% asymptomatic. There is no pressure, no lump, and I do not need to wear a hernia belt any longer. The way I did this was to keep the hernia pushed in at all times when I was awake by using the hernia belt that I designed. Also I was able to reverse what I found to be the root causes of an inguinal hernia.

I put a plan in place to:

  1. Fix my pelvic posture
  2. Increase mobility in the hips
  3. Strengthen the muscles around the inguinal canal
  4. Consume a diet which does not cause excess gas, bloating, or constipation
  5. Learned to deal with tension caused by unconscious repressed emotions such as anger.

Once I was able to do this, I was able to become symptom free. I hope this helps on your journey to treat inguinal hernia without surgery!

Update 08/2026: Researchers Are Now Testing a Non-Surgical Approach in Humans

There’s also some interesting new research worth following. Researchers have launched the RIGHT Trial (Reversing InGuinal Hernia Trial), a human clinical trial investigating whether changing estrogen signaling can produce measurable changes in existing inguinal hernias.

This research grew out of earlier studies in which scientists were able to reverse established inguinal hernias in mice without surgically repairing them. The human trial will now use ultrasound to see whether the hernias themselves actually change during treatment.

I break down what the researchers are testing, who they’re studying, and why I think this trial is worth paying attention to in my article on the RIGHT Trial and non-surgical inguinal hernia research.

 

Do You Have What It Takes?


Healing your hernia holistically. Do you have what it takes?

In this video I talk about the mindset that I believe is critical to healing your inguinal hernia holistically without surgery. Once I grasped the idea of the mind body connection all the effort that I was making toward healing just clicked. Within three weeks I have lessened the size of my hernia by 90%. It won’t be long before I am completely healed.

There are a few other things at play with the progress that I am making on top of the mind body connection that you can read about here. 

The Book

I read a book called Healing Back Pain, The Mind Body Connection. This book made me realize how important it really is to have the right mindset as you go through the journey of healing your hernia.  It absolutely helped me beat the terrible back pain that I have had since I was 18 years old. The book does not only apply to back pain though. It covers all types  of different body pain like migraines, tendonitis, fibromyalgia, arthritis, and more. It doesn’t specifically talk about hernias, but it would be a good read anyway to get a better understanding of the mind body connection, and how real it is. I truly believe that this is a large aspect of why we get hernias in the first place.

healing hernia mind body connection book

Commitment

I’ve been talking to a lot of people lately. A lot of whom wish to heal their hernia naturally, but have not been 100% committed to do what is necessary in order to heal.  They are stuck wondering why nothing is working, and are constantly thinking in the back of their heads that they will probably end up getting surgery in the end. But, let me ask you this…Have you ever reached a goal that you couldn’t see yourself reaching in your mind? Most likely not. Usually if you can’t see it in your mind, you don’t do it because you won’t be able to map out the steps necessary to bring what is in your imagination to reality.

Once you make the true commitment to healing naturally, you can get the thought of possible surgery out of your mind. This will make way for you to imagine yourself reaching your goal. You can then focus on formulating a solid plan on how to get there. Most likely it will be a long, hard journey. You will probably have to work through a lot of other stuff that is wrong with your body before you can even focus your attention on the hernia. Maybe things you didn’t even realize you have been letting hold you back. You might have to lose some weight, or stop overeating, or get some mobility back, who knows.

My Experience

This is what I’ve been working through for the past couple years. Back pain, joint pain, mobility issues, etc. But now that I am through it I literally have not felt this good since I was in high school. I almost feel like I needed this hernia in order to get myself back on the right track. Not only physically on the right track, but mentally as well. I have been pounding my body for years. I wasn’t paying attention to anything but trying to get in the best shape I can. All the while I was wearing out my joints, losing mobility, and gaining a hernia.

Without COMMITMENT,  I would have given up a long time ago and missed out on the whole learning experience. I can’t wait to look back one day at this experience and say “Hell yea, I did it!”. I will end feeling better in my forties and fifties than I did in my twenties and thirties.

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