I think the first thing that is holding you back is that you actually have ACCEPTED that you indeed have a problem in the first place.
On top of that you have ACCEPTED that you have limiting beliefs about that problem.
I can obviously understand that you would believe you have an injury when a doctor tells you but you shouldn't accept it as being a fact, question it.
Doctors have been proven wrong millions of times, so that's nothing new.
The first thing you are doing wrong is actually admitting you
have a problem. So in your mind it is a fact that your back is injured.
Energy goes where attention flows, so by even paying attention to your "sore" back you are making it sore and feeling that pain.
This may sound a little crazy but hang with me.
We are too quick to accept something as fact, you should question EVERYTHING. So the doctors said it wasn't normal but what is "NORMAL" anyway?
I have broken both my collar bones and you should see the scans for them, they look whack! Definetley not normal but they are totally healed and I don't feel any pain at all, ever.
Accepting that you have a problem is the worst thing you can do, because you are going to go through life thinking you have a bad back. Any time you feel pain you are going to say to yourself there goes my bad back.
I used to have a similar situation to you. I used to have a
really bad back, or so I thought.
It was incredibly painful and it would annoy me everyday. I used to play football and after every game I was in so much pain I could hardly walk, I looked like an 80 year old man. (I was 17 at the time).
I went to the chiropractor and she told me I had a herniated disc.
So from then on it I absolutely ACCEPTED that I had this problem. I stopped playing football and pretty much stoped exercising because I believed I had a "bad back".
It got so bad one day and I was in so much pain that I went to the doctors to see if they could do something.
So they took some scans and got back to me in a couple of weeks.
Turns out there
wasn't a thing wrong with my back, it was in perfect condition.
But because I thought I had a herniated disc I was carrying the belief that my back was injured and any slight feeling of pain I really focused on and probably over exagerated it.
But in my mind it felt like I was going through hell.
Recently I just completed an advanced 3 month wieghts and cardio program and my back was fine. Admittidly sometimes it felt a bit sore but when it did I just said to myself my body must be a bit tight I need to stretch.
So I stretched and then I told my self that I was good and I was ok and just continued on.
Pain is mostly in the mind.
Have you ever gotten really drunk and bumped in to something or fell over but at the time it didn't really hurt, you didn't really feel it?
I'm not saying you should get drunk all the time lol.
But my point is that you FEEL pain in your mind. Have you ever heard when something hurts their foot or something so their friend punches them in the arm and says now your mind is not thinking about your foot.
Again I'm not saying injure another part of your body but instead don't focus on it.
Like I said at the start you have admitted that you have a problem and are trying to fix it, but if you don't have a problem in the first place their is nothing to fix.
This might sound crazy and a bit out there but it's all about your beliefs. If you can change your beliefs to having a healthy body then your back pain will go away.
You are focusing on the negative instead of the postive.
Ignore the negative, stop looking at the MRI's and just move forward and focus on the positive.
I'd also suggest you stretch. There are some pretty good DVD's out there that deal with stretching the entire body, you will feel much better after doing the session and it will help your back.
Also I would recommend doing yoga, if you don't want to go to a class again you can get a DVD and do it at home. This will also make your physical body feel really good and it will also help change that belief by doing something in the "real world".
Phew! This post got a little out of hand.
I hope it helps you though
Cheers,
Tristan