People coping with chronic illness do negative self-talk more frequently than do others, often continuously.

[MBAnderson]

Is the story we tell our selves making our situation worse?

How we decide to show up, will affect our health.

Makes sense to me.

1 ht. 36 min video

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[rebtar]

No question about it. our minds can do a number on us. Every morning when I wake up I do a positive guided meditation, focusing on self love. I now move into each day happy and positive, rather than anxious. I try not to over plan, overthink, overextend. I'm the only one who can give this to myself.

[Dap1948 in reply to rebtar]

Well done you! ❤️

[rebtar in reply to Dap1948]

Daphne, it's been amazingly helpful!

[Dap1948 in reply to rebtar]

Is it a recorded or written guided meditation?

[rebtar in reply to Dap1948]

see my reply below. insight timer is a phone app. all are audio, and there are courses also.

[LAJ12345]

Mel Robbins is great!

[park_bear]

Related - Doctor Kim imparts the essence of her teachings in two minutes. She starts with hyperbole but then gets down to some good practical advice, starting at 1:10.:

youtu.be/1nTmH6BwoxI?t=70(Not working as expected?)

[rebtar]

Two things have been helpful for me. The first is I talk to myself. My family of origin was a very non expressive environment as far as love and affection. I never got that from my parents, rather, a lot of emotional abandonment. So I do a lot of self talk giving myself love... it may sound hokey but it works! I say to myself..."I love you Rebecca...I will always be here for you...I've always been here even if you weren't aware of it...I will never abandon you...You're doing great...Congratulations for (whatever I've done well)..." etc.

The other is guided meditations with an app called insight timer (free). There are hundreds or thousands of great guided meditations on it, but the one I try to do every morning after waking up is called "Deep Healing" by Davidji. It's a bodyscan/relaxation with a second body scan with acceptance of what is. I've found it to be a great way to start my day!

[WinnieThePoo]

Just noticed this, and I don't choose to spend an hour and a half watching the video (i have a backlog of work to catch up). Also, I'm not naturally a touchy-feely self loving meditator - although I am probably softening a bit. But I strongly endorse the idea that mental state is maybe the number 1 controllable influence on PD, and that a positive attitude and enthusiasm to do what is still possible at every stage of the disease is a big contribution to quality of life. And the inverse is true - spending too much time obsessively seeking the miracle cure everyone else has missed, and nobody is going to share with you or anyone else, tailoring an elaborate routine of supplement ingestion can cause you to suffer "invalid syndrome"

Carpe Diem!

[PDConscience]

RE The "story we tell ourselves" - A good starting point is an occasional dose of FACT (together with the mental circuitry to recognize it when it passes before one's self). The deep rot at the heart of today's medical/scientific establishment continues to feed upon malleable, self-deluding sheeple. Latest example:dailymail.co.uk/news/articl...

[MBAnderson in reply to PDConscience]

So, if everything in this article is true, the Lancet has a credibility problem. I am fine with that.

I don't believe it's possible for anyone on this forum to sort through all of conflicting reports published as to whether or not the virus leaked from the Wuhan lab. It would not surprise me if that turns out to be the case, but the Daily Mail has its own credibility issues, which are are far worse (then the Lancets) (to include support for Hitler) so as I have pointed out before, it comes down to who you believe.

"In February 2017, the Daily Mail became the first source to be deprecated as an "unreliable source" for use as a reference on the English Wikipedia.[25] Its use as a reference is now "generally prohibited, especially when other more reliable sources exist".[17][221] Support for the ban centred on "the Daily Mail's reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism, and flat-out fabrication".[17"

"... I think what [the Daily Mail has] done brilliantly in this ad funded world (is) they've mastered the art of click bait, they've mastered the art of hyped up headlines,..."

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