Guest guest Posted February 14, 2002 Report Share Posted February 14, 2002 , THANK YOU for your encouraging words! Prayers are with all of you!! May God Bless, Beckie wrote: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 4, 2003 Report Share Posted April 4, 2003 Steve.....I am normally a person who goes to groups. Some people have their religion for comfort...others family and friends. One friend sent me the following quote that has given me great comfort during bad times. " the tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive. AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. " It sort of says it all I think. Martha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 4, 2003 Report Share Posted April 4, 2003 Hi Steve! Geoff here. You wrote: " I wonder about the effectiveness of some of the " attitude adjustment " therapies such as Creative Visualization, EFT, BSFF, meditation,and (yes Geoff), prayer, for people like us. It would seem that if it was something psychological that caused some of us to be more vulnerable to stress and therefore rheumatic disease, then there just might be something like the above therapies (or similar) that could help us. " Interesting you should mention prayer in the same sentence as visualization, etc. Unlike visualization, meditation and the other things, prayer is an " other-centric " effort, not a " self-centric " one. The double-blind studies published over the last few years proved (yes, proved) the efficacy of prayer. In the studies people prayed for patients they did not know and who did not know they were being prayed for. So, yes, I believe prayer is an essential component to life, and I believe we should pray for our own needs, but specifically prayer is concentrated on the needs of others being placed before our own. In the West we have been conditioned to separate the physical from the emotional and psychological. In fact, there is no such well-defined separation. We all recognize the emotional and psychological effect of various drugs ranging from narcotics to alcohol, and types of foods like wheats. While we engage various stimuli from an emotional perspective, that perspective requires the action of physical components, hormonal release, glandular and organ responses, etc., all of which " stress " the physical system. The emotional & psychological components are very high level means of targeting the actions of the physical responses toward a particular goal. Hence yesterday's post depicting the linkage between specific organic systems and their emotional/psychological presentations. (BTW, to use that list, locate the ONE overwhelming item of interest and work that. Once it is gone, if there is another, go to it. There may not be any others once the first is addressed as stress on one system commonly cascades to others.) Some have reported personal benefit from a variety of the items you mention, specifically meditation. I think prayer has a different place... that of healing others being more important than healing ourselves. In the end, we too benefit, sometimes directly from healing but more frequently from the indirect benefit of putting God first, others second and ourselves third. Geoff soli Deo gloria www.HealingYou.org - Your nonprofit source for remedies and aids in fighting these diseases, information on weaning from drugs, and nutritional kits for repairing adrenal damage; 100% volunteer staffed. (Courtesy of Captain Cook's www.800-800-cruise.com) " He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth's people... " " ...loosen the bonds of wickedness, undo the bands of the yoke, let the oppressed go free, satisfy the desire of the afflicted, and your light will rise in darkness and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and you will be called the restorer of the streets in which to dwell. " J1224 I58612 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 19, 2003 Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 Hi everyone, Quick update: I passed all my recent exams/scans/xrays/bloodwork with flying colors!!! Now, about ! He gained a ton of weight on Zyprexa, and was getting obsessed with food.......it came to the point where we had to put Josh's bicycle cable locks on the fridge, so we switched to Adderral.....I should have known better; I told the doc that doesn't do well w/stimulant meds', however, the first day on it, he did so well at school, I thought maybe after trying it again after a few yrs., it might work. WRONG! That night, didn't get to bed till 1:00 a.m. and the next day at school, he had a violent reaction: pupils dilated, pulse racing, heart beating a mile a minute, foaming at the mouth, talking and moving incessantly. The school called me and it took the teacher, the nurse, an aide, the principal AND ME to hold him down!!!! There IS a happy ending to this story! After we waited a few days for to calm down, mostly with the help of Tranzodone, the doc put on on that new med, Strattera, and I must say, is doing MUCH better on this new one than anything he's EVER been on. He is also on Clonidine with this med, then at night, I still give him the Tranzodone for sleeping. He has lost 5 lbs. already and is playing w/toys!!! He has NEVER done this before! Well, off to work I go......I hope everyone is doing well. Love, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 19, 2004 Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 FREE baby girl (acondroplasia) already altered clothes up to size 2T - Please email lynconrad@... for request. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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