self help - Part 2

How Your Mind Causes Pain

Your thoughts can cause pain. When you have certain thoughts you will assume certain postures.

If you are depressed, you might hunch forward. You get a depressed posture. If you don’t, you cannot stay depressed.

If you are sad, it’s reflected in your mouth and face and in your whole body.

When you are happy, it also shows all over. You smile, your posture improves, you may even glow. And your immune system will be happier, too!

If you continually keep thoughts that affect your body in a negative way, your body will get used to being in that position. And when your muscles get ‘stuck’ in a position like that you will end up with pain.

Try this: Change your posture. Lift your shoulders and breastbone. Change your expression. Lift the corners of your mouth. Let your eyes crinkle. Smile.

July 11November 5

How Your Body Heals Naturally from Muscle Injury or Joint Pain

You have muscle or joint pain and, of course, you want to get rid of it. You prefer to get rid of your pain naturally without the use of drugs or surgery.

Is this possible? Yes. Why?

Your body heals all the time. It is constantly changing and making corrections (when it can.)

Let’s use me as an example:

I used to have such severe asthma (difficulty breathing) that I ended up in the hospital twice and I took steroid medications for almost 20 years. Now? No problem. No drugs. No wheezing.

In case you are thinking that I finally outgrew it, nope. I outsmarted it. Made corrections to my diet and started taking vitamin and mineral supplements seriously. Lots of illnesses are caused by nutritional deficiencies.

Now let’s use you as an example:

Have you ever had a broken bone? It healed? And how about all of those scrapes, cuts and other injuries you Continue reading “How Your Body Heals Naturally from Muscle Injury or Joint Pain”

June 19November 5

Not Getting Enough Sleep Causes Pain–Here’s How To Get More Sleep

Did you know that pain can be caused by not getting enough sleep? Researchers have been able to create muscle pain in healthy, young college students simply by depriving them of sleep!

The kind of pain they developed was the type that people with Fibromyalgia Syndrome have: all-over joint and muscle aches.

If you have trouble falling asleep and Continue reading “Not Getting Enough Sleep Causes Pain–Here’s How To Get More Sleep”