Getting well from Fibromyalgia or any other long term illness can be a lot like preparing and selling a house. To put your house up for sale you have do whatever it takes to get it into great functional shape, looking good and performing really well again. Believe it or not, the same goes for you if you suffer with Fibromyalgia: you’ve got to do what it takes.
Can getting well from Fibromyalgia be that easy? Not really, but this simple hilosophy will head you in the right direction of anticipating and planning for the healthy state of your future body.
This week we’re focusing on the topic of how to get well from Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. On Friday, Dr. Mike J. Funicello will speak with us and share his philosophy and practical experience of what makes people like us (with Fibro and CFS) sick and what can help us get well. I encourage you to begin thinking about these things and be sure to tune in to the Friday 3 pm EST broadcast.
If… you want to be happy and you want your body to be appealing and functionally working in top shape again, then doing whatever it takes to have it be balanced and functional are major key support structures in your healthy house foundation. Consider approaching the task from a broad viewpoint and incorporate every component of what makes you– you. Strive for complete health in mind, body and spirit, not leaving out a single building block.
From a marketing perspective, do the things that “your particular house needs doing.” Make yours the best body house around, just like you would do to the house you live in if it needed plumbing, painting, or landscape work. From a health perspective, figure out where the holes are in your health and begin filling them in one by one. That may seem like a daunting task. Often we know where our weaknesses are, but we have no idea how to fix them. Other times we know what needs doing, but we don’t do it.
Helpful Hint: Go back in your mind to the time right before your health failed. Think about what shape you were in… . What was going on in your life. Were you going through a tough time for some reason? Did a traumatic event suddenly happen to you or did you experience overwhelming daily stress over a period of time?
Fact: You would not have gotten sick if you had not been suffering with some kind of health deficit. And, what’s more interesting, you wouldn’t continue to be ill to this day, if you did not continue to have some degree of dysfunction.
Before then, begin by making a list as details come to mind. Jot down the facts about your life right before you got ill. Have a heart-to-heart talk with yourself and be extremely honest. No cheating just to make yourself feel better. One way of the other, acknowledge your history and your true feelings. You don’t ever have to show this list to anyone if you don’t want to.
Know that what you’re doing may stretch and challenge you; it really should if this introspective exercise is to be effective. That is the virtual definition of a personal growth process. When you feel like you’re finished, save this potential repair list for Friday, when you visit the Health Matters Show and listen to me interview Dr. Funicello.
Resolve to do whatever it takes to learn more about this subject of getting well from Fibromyalgia.
Until later,
Cinda Crawford, host of the Health Matters Show
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