My story goes something like this:

I was a Personal Trainer with a defunct body. I was aesthetically fit; endowed with “abs” from a regimen of eating mediocrely, lifting weights (with bad form), running, and the benefit of youth. But at age 24, the observance of chronic lower-back and shoulder pain necessitated my first application of The Life Method:

Question: Do I have absolutely no idea what it means to be healthy?

Test: Takes a Pilates class

Observation: Gets shown up by 50 year-old women

Feedback: Not happy about the observation—pretends event never happened

Result: Keeps injuring lower-back