If you want to get someone suffering from pain angry in a hurry, just tell them their pain is all in their mind. “Baloney!” (or some stronger word) might be their response.
Saying pain is all in someone’s mind is tantamount to claiming their pain is imaginary. Clearly pain is real to any person suffering with it. However, the cause of pain very well may be from their mind.
Pain often has a musculoskeletal source. But one very common factor behind many types of pain does originate in your mind, namely stress. Even when stress isn’t the primary cause of pain, it can exacerbate existing pain from musculoskeletal causes leaving you feeling even worse.
Stress is directly related not only to pain but also numerous illnesses with no apparent biological cause. Fibromyalgia, chronic headaches, and insomnia are often tied to high levels of stress. Stress also causes our bodies to release adrenaline which is critical for responding to genuine “fight or flight” situations. Chronically high levels of adrenaline caused by repeated unresolved stress – even from situations as benign as sitting in traffic, missing a deadline, etc. – can lead to trigger pain from anxiety, muscle tension, digestive disorders, and even lead to long-term biological damage.
As a result, if you or someone you love suffers from pain, eliminating stress can play an important role in your search for lasting pain relief and better health. Here are several proven ways to reduce stress and stress-related pain:
Physical activity, especially rhythmic exercises like bicycling or swimming, helps burn off stress chemicals and has been proven more effective than Prozac for treating depression. Targeted exercise itself can even help relieve pain.
Real hypnosis (not the stage act kind!) can be very effective at eliminating stress, reducing anxiety, and improving your health.
Herbs such as ginseng, Rhodiola rosea, chamomile, Siberian ginseng, cordyceps, and ashwagandha are known for their ability to reduce stress and anxiety.
Heat therapy like a hot bath or sauna works wonders at helping your body relax. Localized heat treatments can help reduce specific areas of pain, stress and tension. Far infrared heat is a form proven safer and more effective than traditional heating pads.
Use mind/body approaches such as tai chi to take a multi-disciplinary approach to eliminating stress and pain.
Get actively involved in a community. Building a network of friends brings with it powerful allies in helping you cope with the day to day stressors of modern life.
One of Dr. Sarno’s most comprehensive books on the subject of the mind and how it can create all sorts of pain. Watch this quick video review to see what we think about it…
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Should you get the swine flu vaccine? Infectious disease expert says, “Absolutely not!” I agree and here’s why…
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) in the United Kingdom released a new experimental swine flu vaccine into the public. Yet it had only five days of testing! Normally, several months are required before determining safety and efficacy, but not in this case.
The sad part is that most vaccines are unnecessary and even potentially dangerous, even after meeting the requirements in clinical trials. But this new vaccine has not even got that! And the EMEA says the vaccine will be distributed WHILE the trials are carried out.
Are they crazy?! Or are we stupid for subjecting ourselves and our children to this potentially harmful and unproven vaccine? And if the H1N1 swine flu vaccine is proven to have life-threatening or genetically dangerous side effects, what then? A simple recall and perhaps some payouts?
To be sure, the current swine flu vaccination program is huge and perhaps the largest mass vaccination in the past 50 years! And who is behind this experimental drug and its distribution? America’s Big Pharma Legal Drug Cartels known as GlaxoSmithKline and Baxter Healthcare.
Well it turns out that the new swine flu vaccine has been found to be possibly cancer causing by German lung specialist, Wolfgang Wodarg. According to Wodarg, the nutrient solution for the vaccine consists of cancerous cells from animals! Not only that, but it was then found to be linked to guillain-barre syndrome, a paralyzing nerve disease!!
But doctors, nurses and we, ourselves, are responsible for giving and getting the vaccine. The problem is that the media plays into our fears and even passes off lies as truth. So without being a microbiologist how are we to know what to believe? Well, after doing some research into the facts, I wanted to share these points with you.
1. We are told that there are no adjuvants in the current H1N1 vaccine. This is a lie.
Adjuvants are a necessary and critical part of flu vaccines. They are used to boost the production of antibodies. And when there is limited supply of a vaccine for a so-called pandemic and the demand is so very high, adjuvants are used to “spread out” or “make more of” a vaccine. Think of how you might add water to spaghetti sauce or sour cream to avocados to make them feed more people.
The worst part is, mercury, squalene and aluminum are often used as adjuvants. If you knew the risks involved you would never consent to take or have the shot given to your children or loved ones.
2. The media has played up the idea that this new swine flu is much more deadly than the regular seasonal flu. This also is not true.
Of course the beginnings of this came from the media crying wolf when a few people around the globe tested positive for H1N1. But it never spread into pandemic proportions as we were led to believe. And so, it was soon apparent to those paying attention that the swine flu was actually no more dangerous to us than the seasonal flu.
Is it still possible that this flu mutates and become the dangerous wolf we were expecting? Sure, anything is possible… including that it fades into oblivion. In which case we needn’t damage our body with a vaccine that is almost certain to create health issues here and now.
3. They tell us that getting the vaccine will protect us against the deadly virus. This is not actually the case.
Yes, getting inoculated will produce more antibodies in us. However, these antibodies are not actually geared to protect against the actual virus and its mutations in real time. They are based on previous years’ viruses and very limited testing. They run greater risk of harm than help.
4. The media tells us repeatedly that the vaccine is safe and we need to be good parents and protect our children. What a load of horse manure!
Does injecting a poison made from cancerous cells sound safe to you? And with such limited testing and trials how on earth can anyone know, even scientists, if this vaccine is safe or will be deadly? They can’t and putting toxic viruses into your body for real to hopefully beat a virus that may not come and may not be the same as during the trials… is too high a health risk to take.
5. Not yet convinced? Think about these scary facts. Most American children are vaccinated nearly 30 times before they are two years old. Sounds reasonable until you consider that even veterinarians refuse to keep vaccinating dogs because of obvious, observable side effects! How about the fact that the Amish do not vaccinate their children and their children do not get autism! Yet there is increasing prevalence of autism among children who are vaccinated.
Man, this stuff scares me. Mostly because I have eight children of my own and I fear for their safety and the health and wellbeing of their friends and extended generation. Personally, I believe natural is better and I only use natural healthcare products, see alternative healthcare practitioners, and try my best to educate people through my publications. So do yourself a favor and avoid this experimental vaccine.
Your best bet is to take a holistic approach and build up your immune system naturally. Here are some tips to keep your immune system working at its best and thus giving you the best defense against the swine flu and every other seasonal flu out there.
1. Avoid sugar, processed foods and trans fats as they deplete your immune system.
2. Get a full eight hours sleep per night to stay strong and rested.
3. Engage in stress relief practices, such as meditation, deep breathing, etc.
4. Get enough of the Omega-3 fatty acids, green and white teas to boost your anti-oxidant levels.
5. Always wash and sanitize your hands and counter surfaces to stop the spread of germs.
6. Eat plenty of garlic, turmeric, ginger and curries to strengthen digestion, absorption of nutrients and fighting of bacteria and viruses in the body.
7. Avoid Flu Vaccines!!!
Emotions play such a vital role in both wellness and illness, that to ignore them in any analysis of health is a mistake. While emotions are natural and important parts of life, when taken to excess they can be damaging to the body… and can cause pain.
When emotions are extremely abrupt, intense or persistent, they may over time produce functional disorders of the organs by upsetting the harmonious balance of blood and energy. We are talking here of excessive feelings of Joy, Anger, Melancholy, Anxiety, Grief, Fear and Fright.
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If you want to get someone suffering from pain angry in a hurry, just tell them their pain is all in their mind. “Baloney!” (or some stronger word) might be their response.
Emotions play such a vital role in both wellness and illness, that to ignore them in any analysis of health is a mistake. While emotions are natural and important parts of life, when taken to excess they can be damaging to the body… and can cause pain.
