HEALTHOSITY: A blog on how to recover from CFS, yes recover, really!

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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Manage Your Illness or Recover From It!

by Nadine Saubers, RN BSN

Yesterday I was going to hike with my best friend but she wasn't feeling up to it so we walked a long trail near her house and saw this lovely little creature.My friend was diagnosed with fibromyalgia last week and she has a long road in front of her in order to recover. On the sickness scale I would say she's a 10, very very ill.The upside for her is that she has the benefit of my knowledge and experience so she will never get sucked into the "vortex" of toxic medication. She's fully aware of what it's going to take to recover and also fully invested in doing whatever it takes. The first thing she did was to see one of my doctors (who is very judicious about medications) in order to get evaluated and because she needs to use compounded hormones etc. She would have seen someone a long time ago but she doesn't have insurance so she waited until she simply had to get help, really sad commentary on the state of our health care system that people are suffering so terribly with little recourse.She's a smart woman though and really doesn't have any desire to get sucked into mainstream medicine where all they know is how to manage illnesses with medication while they create new symptoms and get you further and further away from any possibility of recovery or healing. Mainstream western doctors are not healers, they are prescription dispensers.I've talked to so many people since starting this blog and the consensus among people who believe they can recover is how harmful medications can be. The object of healing is to heal at the cellular level. But this is a long process, if you've been sick for 5 years it could take you 6 months or more to feel any better doing all the right things.Part of healing is also healing mentally and spiritually. There's a lot of baggage while recovering to unload. For example all the fears that are conditioned in us. Like the fear of using energy and how badly you'll be trashed. That's the sort of dialogue that you have to slowly work on by changing your conscious thoughts. I've done a lot of this in hypnosis but also by reading and studying how to change my conscious mind. Here are 2 excellent books that will help you discover how much you can improve your health by working on the spiritual aspect and what I call the "wounded" mind.The Unbroken Field: The Power of Intention in Healing by Dr. T. Greenwood Healing and Recovery by Dr. R. Hawkins I am in no way shape or form insinuating that CFS is AT ALL "in your head." I am saying that if you want to recover fully you have to look at your thinking patterns that fully integrate belief patterns and patterns of behavior. This is on top of all the work you do with your diet, elimination of toxins and stressors, restorative sleep, necessary supplements and hormones and so on.My friend is really encouraged even though suffering a lot. She knows a lot of what I went through and that if I could recover than anyone can. Strength and forward momentum to all of you!!!

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