1. Time is a great healer. The only certainty in life is that everything changes, and I strongly believe that your body wants to move toward health and it often will if you just leave it alone.

I used to have terrible low back troubles. ... Then one day a couple of years ago I realized that I hadn't had a back ache in ages. I'm still pain free. So what did I do to solve the problem? Nothing. I went about my life despite the pain and the frickin' inconvenience of walking like an elderly woman half the time. And it went away.