SomaStar #4 - ONTO Maverick, Pete Egoscue

Pete Egoscue

You can’t pigeonhole Pete Egoscue. He doesn’t fit into a nice, neat category. He has no formal medical or physical therapy training. In fact, he graduated with an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Utah State University, specializing in “jockdom” (or sports). He then went on to serve as an Infantry Officer in the United States Marine Corps for ten years, resigning his commission in 1978 as a Major.

In an effort to describe or put a label on him, long time friend and client Jack Nicklaus calls Pete an “Anatomical Functionalist” and goes on to say, “Pete Egoscue has totally changed my life. Never have I experienced such complete pain relief as I have by following the Egoscue Method.” Pete’s publisher, Bantam Books prefers the term “Anatomical Physiologist” when referring to Pete being consulted by some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment. But the bottom line is that Pete Egoscue has been successfully helping people relieve themselves of chronic pain since 1978. He has authored four books, including the best selling book, Pain Free. He is also host of the extremely popular, nationally syndicated talk radio show, Pain Free.

When you ask Pete to put a label on himself, he says, “I’m the Posture guy”. Pretty modest for a man who is responsible for establishing over 18 clinics (and counting), world wide, with corporate headquarters in San Diego, California. In fact, the Egoscue Method is “the world leader in non-medical pain relief”. Pete Egoscue is responsible for creating a therapy method that relieves chronic pain, and encourages peak physical performance for the young, the old, the athlete, the non-athlete, the famous, and the infamous. This unique method is based on the body’s functional design – or posture. Therefore, to put it simply, Pete Egoscue is a “Posture Therapist” – a very good one!

This ONTO doesn't have time for your b.s. (belief system). He deals with the 'elusive obvious' most of us miss hunting for exotic explanations for our chronic physical problems. Once you hear him speak or read his book or even visit his website, his infectious insistence that you have a blueprint for well-being written into your body's design takes hold. Listen to his radio show and you can see how he just knows why you hurt and how to eliminate it. It's like Pete has a copy of the rules of being a fully aware human being. The way he shares it his secret. His SAT morning radio show Pain Free Radio is a weekly initiation in Pete's knowledge base of no-nonsense postural re-education. While the science behind his work is almost incidental to him (egghead stuff), the art of living free of self-induced physical limitations is his passion. The success of his landmark book, oddly titled Pain Free has made Pete's extremely simple exercises (he's got over 400 of them and counting) transferable because he's using all his Secondary Domains. By being both a voice of the people (PHYLO) and a thorn in the side of the establishment (ECO), Pete captures your attention by speaking the truth to you and the way you live. He takes no guff from you about poor results you may experience.

Instead, he points to the facts of your life and says that until and unless you align with the facts of life in general, your poor results are actually your best friends. He says life is nothing but one giant stimulus and your symptoms, results, and outcomes are the response. The game never ends so if you start to slip into patterns of dysfunction, it's on you to change the menu. His work provides both an immediate path to regaining control of your body and a strategy (EXO) to confront the emotional and mental anguish pain brings us. This allows Pete to let his life to flow from IN-8 pattern #8 (truth) to pattern #4 (love) which gives him a 'code' to get right to the core of each person's capacity to self-regulate by following nature's design for them. All these factors make Pete a legit SomaStar (someone who's able to open their identity up and weave in aspects of all 4 life narratives to create a truly integrated life story). Take a look at some of ammo he left for us.

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