As you try to find a way to heal from Fibromyalgia (a.k.a. healing Fibro) and/or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (a.k.a. healing CFS), don’t be afraid to look at your emotions, your sacred spirit and recognize the connection that your mind has to your body, especially in terms of mindfulness. Each of these things can be incredibly important once they’re considered to be parts of the same puzzle. (See video below.) *Mindfulness can help you manage your symptoms until you get well.
Healing Fibro
and Healing CFS!
As you study how to get well from Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, don’t just think that it’s important to address the physical process only. Yes, suffering feels very physical, but it is also mental, emotional and often spiritual combined.
1) Think of how often you become irritated when people make no attempt to try to understand what you’re going through.
2) Think of how much better everything would be if you didn’t get emotional or upset. Think of how that would help to keep your body, mind and spirit more stable.
3) Think of how mentally difficult it can be to drive the car or navigate traffic.
4) Think of how spiritually challenging it can be to stay above the fray of petty, back-biting people who don’t necessarily have your best interests at heart. Emotional situations often go hand in hand with spiritual challenges. And it seems like they show up when you don’t feel like dealing with them at all!
The doctor in the video below talks about studying mindfulness in an effort to control pain and chronic illness. He’s right. No matter your shape, health or time situations, it is possible for you to learn mindfulness and be able to handle all aspects of your illness that much better. If you practice mindfulness, healing CFS and healing Fibro will be that much easier because you’ll be handling every part of the process that much more skillfully! (Isn’t that part of the definition of success?)
Check out the following video by Steven D. Hickman, Psy.D, who talks about the success that a lady with Fibromyalgia had after learning mindfulness.
Thanks so much, Cinda Crawford
Host of the Health Matters Show
PS- a lot of the programs and products on mindfulness are based on the original work of Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. I encourage you to check out his magnificent book below on Amazon.com!
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