One of the areas that I have worked to overcome while styling my life, is eliminating chronic pain. Debilitating pain that totally stops any normal functions let alone thriving.
Reducing inflammation over time helps to reduce the source of the pain, and to achieve that is the combination of foods, exercise, and mindful practises such as neuroplasticity.
Lots of people believe that chronic pain has no cure, and they get caught up in the circle of no hope, that’s because it’s the dominant message that’s being received. They believe their future is doomed and they will have a poorer life because of it.
I know this is not true and that it is possible to take away the pain and block it out of existence through neuroplasticity (which is the ability of neural networks in the brain to change, and through growth rewiring function in a different way) and to develop an intuition to believe that it is possible to heal oneself.
This sounds difficult but it’s not, although it does rely on focus and patience.
i. Firstly, visualising the healing process - a good time to do this is while you’re in bed preferably just before you drift off to sleep. Visualise the pain disappearing, see a violet light surrounding where the pain source begins (for me that was at the top of my spine) and repeat ‘I radiate health and vitality’. I appreciate that this sounds a little out there, but this method has been practised in Egypt, China and India for thousands of years – they who have a much better track record for well-being than western culture.
ii. Ho’oponopono (pronounced ho.?o.po.no.po.no.) a traditional forgiveness practise by indigenous Hawaiian healers. The forgiveness is toward oneself and for the transgressions committed on ourself. This sounds extremely harsh, but I really have to take accountability that my past actions had manifested as illness which was causing dis-ease in my body. This did not mean I was being abusive in the traditional sense such as drug or alcohol abuse therefore I deserved the pain. No, it meant by forgiving myself for the limiting beliefs I’d stored for decades in my body and then letting go of the stress, frustration and bitterness I’d been holding onto and replacing it with gratitude and self-love helping release so much pain.
iii. Learning how to take a break. You don’t need to do everything – doing everything is killing you! Did you know 80% of people living with chronic pain are women, and the recent history of woman is making things worse. The progression of women in the workplace and their elevation to high intensity positions may seem idealistic, but the reality is the woman is still seen as the primary homemaker and will take on that responsibility the majority of the time. Couple that with motherhood and possibly taking on the role as carer at some point in their lives, there doesn’t seem much time to relax. And most will feel guilt and find trying to rest as too stressful. Where do we learn that resting equals laziness? why do we feel the need to keep going on regardless? has it been indoctrinated? There does have to be some deep reprogramming to change that paradigm and create a new more self-healing one.
Maybe you cannot believe that you can eliminate your condition, but as someone who has achieved it and now seeing other people experiencing dramatic transformations where they’re beginning to thrive – it should give you license to open the gateways to believing the power of change.
Look, it took me several years of putting in the work, and it was because of my desperation to not be in pain and to get on with my life that I learned to reconnect with myself and realise that I had the power not to be frightened of the pain. Quite often pain is as strong as you fear it to be so by leaning into it and training my brain to focus somewhere else it lost its power over me.
There are many more mindful practises to do and if you are at that point where you want to explore the possibilities of your own power – reach out.
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