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First, whatever aerobic exercise you choose, push until your body wants to quit. next, turn up the tunes, and place all focus on some small movement. For power walking, it was my right arm coming forward meeting my left knee.
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Now, share the focus with the pain center, without exertion, without resistance. My chronic pain can not stop me from moving my legs when it is out and flaring.
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This establishes a sort of dominance over our pain. We go exercise bring it out and walk or exercise with it. it becomes moe familiar and less wary, more mechanism than devil.
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Find an exercise that does not aggravate the pain center that much or do damage.
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The exhilaration after walking my pain for twenty minutes was a confidence builder.
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This kind of practice can compress our pain along with the combo of mind and exercise..
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Posts Tagged ‘Chronic Pain’
27 Mar
gaining some power over our chronic pain!!!!!!!
27 Mar
I have Chronic Pain:—–I do not Suffer!!!!! Updated new comments!!,
Evariste Carpenter
My pain receives as little recognition as possible. My pain does not harbor harmful emotions or intent towards me. Pain is faceless, odorless and invisible like the wind.
6 Mar
My Chronic Pain as I view it and Live with It!!!! Updated
Many things have surprised me about my spinal injury and subsequent impact on my mind and body. I never knew how much emotion travels up and down the spinal cord. I witnessed grown men, former police officers cry weekly with devastating impact on their self image.
1 Mar
Slow Posting: Pain and Fatigue visit me!!??
My pain levels have intensified since leaving rehab for my Guillain Beret disease. Hence my posting has been light as I struggle to handle this situation. Having chronic pain from a serious car crash a decade ago, this added pain has reached an intensity and duration which is hard for me to handle.
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Chronic pain eats energy to cope and endure. Pain itself can wear a person out, feeling exhausted and depleted. I feel the seven weeks from being paralyzed, unable to move, through fighting this disease for over two weeks in the ICU, to rehab, learning to dress, eat, shave and walk again.
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Now my body aches, like my back is broken, unable to find a comfortable position to sleep. My hands and especially feet remain numb, tingling and freezing.
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23 Nov
Only You can take Action,—-This guy is expected to give up:– Think this does not make his spirit Soar? He has as much chance for happiness as you or me!
updated, How can we not try when this guy exerts all effort? This inspires me, knowing how great the human spirit is. many things can be accomplished with effort and heart.
Only you, can hold yourself back and create those invisible walls. Our life does not have to resemble some great inspiring success story to be full and enriching, filled with small bursts of joy, happiness or bliss.
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Happiness and healing are borne in the attitude of never giving up and exerting all we have today, then later today and tomorrow for sure.
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It is not about winning, it is about competing with worry, doubt, shame, guilt, fear and maybe anger. Competing, I mean taking action in spite of all these ego created mind mechanisms.
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I do not care if fear, anxiety and shame are present in my consciousness. I am going to be here, present to experience now, whether it is horrible, euphoric, embarrassing or painful.
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Not trying, being sedentary, dissociating or leaving this moment spells disaster for us. Endure, be brave, stay present and heal. Try hard and victim hood will never be your companion.
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Not trying is losing, plain and simple. A daily practice impacts life in a dramatic way.
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Life is a moment to moment adventure, not a destination, accomplishment or title.
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9 Oct
Can you be OK with uncomfortable, awkward, or disappointment?????????
voisins by Pissaro
Reacting to an awkward feeling, by thinking we need to avoid, to scramble for a safer space, makes awkward grow. The ability to step back and be ok with whatever is happening, frees us.
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Learn to be ok when things are difficult then, happiness is available. There is nowhere to go, to escape to or from, no destination containing happiness, just this moment then the next.
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PTSD has us feeling like we need to escape, to avoid, to control outside stimulus constantly. It is difficult to have any calm, peace of mind is a memory.
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Small daily repetitive skills can change your mind.
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The mind reacts better to changing it’s habits when it is simple, will stand up under adrenal stress, is current and is easily repeatable. Practice the breathing track until life opens up.
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4 Oct
Mindfulness: /// Pain and Pain thoughts and Emotions!!!!!!
Vasily Ivanovich (Surikov) 1848-1916)↓
Pain thoughts and the emotions we link together, impact our suffering or lack of suffering.
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Scenario: I have chronic pain everyday. The way I think, the attention I direct to it, the doubt and worry that surrounds it, and my relationship or attitude towards pain impacts life.
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I could dissociate into thinking how much worse am I going to be in five years? Will I be able to do things? My choice is to stay present in this moment, experiencing all that is before me. All that other crap fades when focused on living now.
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Pain thoughts just pass on through me now easily. Any random thought is dismissed by me immediately. Random thoughts do not impact my life any more. What a difference this had made.
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We can change our relationship with thoughts or pain.
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4 Oct
Can we let go of pain, like thoughts or emotions?
Carl Larssen
Chronic pain has a relationship with the mind and body. Funny, how deeply I have considered different types of pain. The physical pain itself, our resistance to the pain(tensing up, resisting), our thoughts about the pain, our relationship with pain (friend, foe or the devil), the mental part (large impact), emotional component and suffering(what we add on top of the pain itself).
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16 Sep
Healing or Life is Not a Spectator Sport!
Evariste Carpenter
From what I have read, practiced and witnessed, healing does not bless spectators at all. No matter whose are or how smart we think we are, life can not be lived as a spectator. Well, not with any substance or happiness.
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What is holding you back from committing to 15 minutes a day? I have heard so many excuses for not taking action. It doesn’t matter if you have a reason, facts dictate you will not improve.
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C-PTSD grows with spectators until agoraphobia enters our space. Avoidance leads to this end. Do you avoid unpleasant and only go where you feel safe. chasing pleasure Ida prescription for disaster.
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What scares you from practicing a little focus daily?
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As I see it, we suffer if we stay still. The road to suffering and fear..
13 Aug
Chronic Pain or C-PTSD and Our Mates?
George Hendrick Brietner
The phenomena of mates leaving their partners was discovered by me in the chronic pain group. For a year I watched the devastation on the faces of these individuals as they faced life in pain alone. 40% to 60% of cancer patients are left by mates supposedly.
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My mate of 17 years called it quits two weeks ago. I packed what I could fit in my vehicle and left. Now life has changed but my daily practice and healing are intact. I try not to judge this but stay present in this moment.
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The worst thing I could do is wander into what if’s or resentment. Life is hard some days, I accept this.
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Never give up, never give in. The present moment and life’s opportunity are the same for me. It is my task to endure for a while without judging my experience.
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Why follow me if I fall apart and give up. It is not in my nature to feel sorry for myself after meditating this long. I see others suffering much more than me everyday and look to support them. This blog let’s me focus on supporting others and stay present.
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