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I been working with this disease for years, I think it could be
useful if I added some considerations on this subject.
I would like to start by presenting an “updated” testimony
of the same patient whose words were published in the first part
of this web page. |
| “The
path, recognizing the land”. |
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seems as if during these last months, everything inside me has been
finding its own place. I refer to emotions, to the recognition of
real and unconscious obstacles and limitations with which I used
to come up against once and again.
In the course of my treatment with L., I started to feel that the
path was becoming clearer.
I have managed to spend long periods without pain, without ruining
my stomach with analgesics.In the last six months I have only experienced
three or four acute episodes.
These crises were similar to the ones I had suffered for years on
a daily basis. I was almost pseudo-disabled, with paralyzing pains
in all the soft parts of my body, a feeling of influenza, a pale
face and tremendous bags under the eyes. All this made me stay in
bed, taking analgesics that only sometimes would calm me down. But
I knew it was there, dull and menacing, and I ended up with no strength,
I had grown weary up to the point of not being able to climb the
stairs at home. In the morning, when I got out of the bed, my whole
body felt stiff. Not even when I lay down did pain disappear, so
I was in a sort of dead end. Anguish and depression were more than
usual. My body seemed made of crystal, incapable of standing the
vital pace of past times. All this affected my closest relationships
and also my way of relating to others. I lived as a recluse and
with the feeling that there was no turning back. |
| What
happened in the last months?
With the therapy, I went through my life, my thoughts and feelings
(the positive and the negative ones), and I started to feel that
I could open certain doors to get out of this situation.
I decided to have a go and I tried different disciplines related
to the body: soft gym, stretching, Yoga (not all the exercises)
Tai-chi, Reiki, Bio-dance and walking (each time starting little
by little and progressively increasing the exercises).
I began to discover which were the exercises that made me feel better
and I repeated them at home. I picked up a little bit from each
of these disciplines and grabbed what benefited me. |
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What did I discover?
We did a thorough checkup of what happens before each pain crisis:
I have to pay much attention to this and so far we have found: setbacks,
anger, sadness and rivalry....
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do I do now to confront pain?
First, I think about what I did or what happened.
Then, I try to calm down with breathing exercises and I take immersion
baths in water with cooking salt.
Once, I was in the middle of a crisis of acute and generalized pain,
as the ones described above, and I thought:
“I will not go into bed” (I remember I was at home,
sitting on a couch in the living-room)
“What if I do the stretching exercises?”, I asked myself.
I did them gently, breathing very slowly. And.. surprise, surprise,
pain started to diminish and so did anguish. I felt stronger, and
good as new.
I believe that the important thing is to “become aware”,
to take care of our body, to rest for a couple of hours, not to
make efforts, to control the anxieties and to learn to wait”
G.
12/29/2003” |
| The
patient gave me this testimony after suffering for more than 20
years. A long period during which she even had a slipped disk operated.
According to my view, the slipped disk was the result of sustained
contractions that ended up affecting the spine column. This is not
the only case with these characteristics, but there is no doubt
that it was her decision and her constancy in the treatment what
helped her to leave behind the “ill-with-fibromyalgia”
diagnosis. |
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consider that one of the main objectives should be (and in a considerable
amount of cases it happens this way) to change the diagnosis around
which the life of a person and his IDENTITY is built up so that
patients can see themselves as persons
with a tendency to contracture who understand why and
when the contracture appears and what should be done to get relief.
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