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🐸 Meditation, Mindfulness, Movement, Breathing, Relaxation, Stress Reduction -- Froggy-Style

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Beach Water Waves Hitting Tree Trunk - SLEEP - MEDITATION - RELAXING:

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Description: "Nature produces the most soothing sounds for relaxation, get lost in time in the heavy rain in the tropics or just fall asleep with endless raindrops. Relax and enjoy the sounds of Blue Water Sounds. Shhh time to go to sleep. Sweet dreams. . . . "

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😌 Meditation, Mindfulness, Movement, Breathing, Relaxation, Stress Reduction -- Dr. Dean Ornish-Style

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If you're ever looking to add to your repertoire, have found Dean Ornish's meditations, mindfulness, movement, breathing, relaxation, stress reduction audios & videos to be outstanding❣

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A few samples:

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• 4-min. Breathing to Relax & Renew: ornish.com/zine/3-yogic-tec...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=q6QZq...

Description: "Our breathing rate powerfully corresponds with our heart rate and temperament. By practicing conscious, slow, rhythmic breathing, we can better regulate a steady heart rate, a more serene mind and a relaxed body. . . . "

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• 2-min. Feeling Breathing:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=8q3_W...

"This meditation helps you to harness the power of the breath to release stress and support the well-being of your heart. . . ."

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• 3-min. Breathing with the Full Body: m.youtube.com/watch?v=kVpHl...

"Relax and rejuvenate your entire body with this soothing breathing exercise you can do anytime you feel stressed. . . ."

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• 3-min. Alternate Nostril Breathing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=VGBQQ...

"Practice alternate nostril breathing to restore equilibrium and feel calmer. Our two nostrils function separately via two different nerve currents, which correlate with the right and left hemispheres of our brains. When there is equilibrium between these two entities, we feel calmer, more balanced. . . ."

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• 3:49-min. Guided Imagery: m.youtube.com/watch?v=fdaLf...

"Take a few minutes each day to practice focusing your mind on healing your body with the help of guided imagery. . . ."

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• 2:45-min. Insight Meditation: m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL...

"Tap into your own inner wisdom and gain invaluable insight with the guidance of this short meditation video. . . .

From a comfortable seated or lying down position, rest your awareness on your breath, naturally flowing in and flowing out as the muscles and the mind are relaxed,

We all are born with an inner wisdom that serves us like an inner compass - when we slow down, catch our breath, and get still in our body, we can access this guidance within. Although it may speak quietly and thus gets drowned out in the chatter of everyday life, if you listen now, it can speak very clearly.

Go ahead and ask yourself now…'What is most important for me to be aware of in my life right now… that I may not be paying attention to?' Now simply listen to whatever arises….

With a keen curiosity, simply observe and explore whatever emerges, as there’s often a valuable insight available, one that can support you in not just surviving but thriving in all aspects of your life."

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Have found Dr. Dean Ornish's video/ audios ( m.youtube.com/channel/UC7ip... ) informative, & beautifully executed.

Superb visuals. 🌺 👍

Merely listening to the calm, soothing voice is relaxing. 😑

Enjoy! 🙏 ☺️

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If this 'type of thing' isn't for you (isn't your 'cup of tea'), kindly by-pass/ ignore. 🙏

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"Meditation mindfulness breathing stress" search results in forums:

• NRAS: healthunlocked.com/search/m...

• HU: healthunlocked.com/search/m...

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If interested in additional (free) meditation, mindfulness, movement, breathing, relaxation, stress reduction videos, see YouTube channel Ornish Program: Stress Management Practices for Reversing Disease: m.youtube.com/playlist?list...

The "Stress Management" webpage ( ornish.com/proven-program/s... ) has practical tips:

• Relax & Renew • Approaching Stress • Basic Stress Management Guidelines • Hints & Resources • Find a Yoga Teacher/ Stress Management Specialist

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The introductory video, "Introduction to Stress Management | Ornish Lifestyle Medicine" puts things into context: m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL...

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Dr. Dean Ornish's "Undo It" lifestyle videos are here: m.youtube.com/channel/UC7ip...

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Channels that may be of interest:

💠 An Overview of the Ornish Reversal Program: m.youtube.com/playlist?list...

💠 Stress Management Practices for Reversing Disease: m.youtube.com/playlist?list...

💠 Love & Support Meditations: m.youtube.com/playlist?list...

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Depending on your sense of humour, you may get a kick out of these meditative twists 🔀:

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• 2:30-min. F*ck That: An Honest Meditation:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=92i5m...

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• 5:25-min. Inner F*cking Peace: A Guided Meditation ➤ Clear Negative Energy & Increase Well-being!:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=OTih3...

"Warning! Explicit language. F*ck it. This is a guided meditation with spoken Positive f*ck yes affirmation to stop negative thinking and anxiety, increasing one's levels of inner peace, confidence, personal & spiritual growth, releasing & cleansing unwanted negative thoughts and emotions. This audio is designed to cleanse negative energy and boost Positive & thoughts, creative energy and motivation. Your dreams are possible. I had a lot of fun making this video. . . . Thank you for being here dear soul :)

''If the essence of my being has caused a smile upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart. Then in living - I have made my mark.'' "

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If any of you are serious about using mindfulness as a method of helping you cope with life,pain ect... Then I advise you to find a course local to you with a certified practioner, the advice and guidance from a face to face teacher is invaluable and much more personal to your own circumstances.

It is a fantastic way of giving us tools to cope with lifes ups and downs. It has helped me to be a calmer more balanced human.😀

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Couldn't agree with you more, gwynedd, point-for-point. 👍 👍

Thank you kindly for sharing. 🙏 🤗

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Nothing beats face-to-face training. 👍

If you haven't access to an in-person instructor though, perhaps Monash University's free 🆓 online course Mindfulness for Wellbeing & Peak Performance might be an acceptable alternative in meantime: futurelearn.com/courses/min...

(The course starts February 6th from FutureLearn.)

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For what it's worth, here's feedback from a previous online (Monash University) Mindfulness course: healthunlocked.com/afassoci...

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Mindfulness search results in forums:

• NRAS: healthunlocked.com/search/m...

• HU: healthunlocked.com/search/m...

May be worth exploring for anyone interested. 🕵 👍

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Movement

For gentle movement, kindly consider Gentle Chair Yoga for RA: healthunlocked.com/nras/pos...

And, for fun, have a peek at the X-Ray Yoga video: healthunlocked.com/nras/pos...

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Found Ashley Hunt's meditation experience interesting. 😑 🙏

Ashley Hunt Wellness: ashleyhuntwellness.com/blog/

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Meditation for Rheumatoid Arthritis Relief:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=r8M-y...

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Transcript: paddisonprogram.com/meditat...

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Points of interest:

- Ashley developed Rheumatoid Arthritis in mid 2016

- Ashley’s Meditation has helped her and she now teaches meditation to help others

- Studies show that meditation reduces the symptoms of RA

- The parallels of meditation practice and Yoga

- Steroid injection can make you feel better, but wear off very quickly

- Ashley’s journey on Plaquenil, then on Methotrexate before finding the Paddison Program

- The Paddison Program gave Ashley immediate improvements

- How Ashley balances her diet, meditation and Yoga practice for symptom elimination

- Her plans to work her way off medication in time

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🙏 🍀 🌺 🌞

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Excellent Meditation Application (App) 😑 thanks to Jules13 : Meditation for pain and stress. healthunlocked.com/nras/pos.... 🙏 😌

InsightTimer.com ⭐️ : insighttimer.com/

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• Climbing the Mountain 🏔 🚶

• Managing 🤹‍♀️ Short- & Long-Term Realistic Expectations 🏆

• Releasing Pent-Up Frustration 😖 , Anger 😠 , Rage 😡

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All summed up beautifully in 13-minute audio: Resolving Anger and Frustration with Rheumatoid Arthritis: paddisonprogram.com/screami...

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A possible energy-releasing 🔋 ⚡️⚡️⚡️ tip?

”When you run out of space in the basement 🏚 , the bodies ⚰️ ⚰️ can go under the rhododendrons 🌺 🌺 in the backyard. 🏡 🌤 🌈 " 😯

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Sorry sorry 🙏 . . . perhaps a bit too much 'Arsenic & Old Lace': m.youtube.com/watch?v=BDLvz...

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Related topic that may be of interest: Managing Chronic Pain

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Moomin8 ‘All about pain...’ ( healthunlocked.com/nras/pos...... ) shares most excellent animation: ‘Tame The Beast — It's time to rethink persistent pain’:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUzv...

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🙏 🍀 🌺 🌞

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Additional Pain Resources:

• from ITYFIALMCTT at healthunlocked.com/nras/pos... :

. . — britishpainsociety.org/

. . — escape-pain.org/

. . — britishpainsociety.org/stat...

. . — arthritisresearchuk.org/sho...

. . — arthritiscare.org.uk/living...

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• from NRAS at nras.org.uk/ :

. . — ‘Managing the pain of rheumatoid arthritis’: nras.org.uk/managing-the-pa...

. . — "Pain" search results: nras.org.uk/search?q=Pain

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• HU’s Pain Concern forum: healthunlocked.com/painconcern

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Bit more from Tame The Beast’s Lorimer Moseley:

TEDxAdelaide - Lorimer Moseley - Why Things Hurt: m.youtube.com/watch?v=gwd-w...

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Professor Lorimer Mosely, 'The Pain Revolution', April 2017: m.youtube.com/watch?v=oji2m...

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BodyInMind.org: bodyinmind.org/who-are-we/

Videos: bodyinmind.org/videos/

Lorimer Moseley Body in Mind: m.youtube.com/watch?v=wy13w...

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Additional Pain Management resource:

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Chiropractic, Massage, Physical Therapy to Help Manage Pain: Matthew Redman

Chiropractic and Rheumatoid Arthritis - With Matthew:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh0ss...

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Discussion:

• Matthew ( goodlife-medical.com/chirop... ) is a chiropractor & has helped many people with RA

• Chiropractic can help joints

• Chiropractic focuses on the spine & the principle that the human body can heal itself

• Different types of stress can affect the spine’s alignment & the aim of chiropractic is to reposition it

• There are different types of massage, each with its strengths & pitfalls

• Matthew first approached RA taking care of his mother

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(Transcript: paddisonprogram.com/chiropr... )

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Kindly consider watching 👁 👁 video 📹 rather than just listening 👂 to audio 🔊only. The visual demonstrations 👉 💪 show us techniques to help us more fully understand. 🤔

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Wishing you speedy pain relief using whatever methods work best for you. 😌 ☺️

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[Also posted at ‘Cure Arthritis Community’ forum: healthunlocked.com/cure-art... ]

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Fatigue/ Exhaustion, Inflammation, “Spoon Theory" 🥄

(simple layman’s thoughts/ understanding)

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Exactly!

It’s ‘battling disease’, manwithnoname, precisely as Gnarli noted.

It’s a 24/7 battle that quietly ‘rages on’ that all our bodily energy expends ‘fighting’ ⚔️ 🤺 the war around the clock 🕐🕕🕚 , day 📅 after day 📆 after day 🗓 . . .

Your body is rightfully exhausted 😴 💤 from wrestling 🤼‍♀️ a never-ending battle each & every day.

[Maybe think of it as something like you’re body is running a marathon every day? 🏃‍♂️ . . .🏃‍♂️ . . .🏃‍♂️ Your body’s tired, exhausted, run-down from running it’s ‘daily marathon’. It needs a lot of sleep/ rest 🛌 to recuperate.]

Until disease/ inflammation 🔥 (the daily marathon) subsides — becomes ‘well managed’ — exhaustion will remain ‘the norm’.

Wishing you well working with your medics to find ways to improve disease management, manwithnoname. 😌 🙏 🍀 🌺 🌞

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Aside: If you’re interested in a bit more about deep, restorative sleep 🛌 , Gnarli & manwithnoname, sleep scientist 👨‍🔬 Matthew Walker’s work might be of interest ( healthunlocked.com/cure-art... ) — provided it doesn’t put you to sleep 😴 💤 . . . . ☺️

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Bingo, Dunk! 👍👍 Don’t know if you’ve already heard of Dr. Brooke Goldner 👩🏻‍⚕️ ( healthunlocked.com/cure-art... ), but her work with Lupus & Autoimmune illness might interest you? 🤔

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Ditto, YanniBaci/ ‘Deb from Australia’ 🇦🇺 . ☺️ 👍

If such things interest you, kindly pop over & have a look-see 👀 .

While disease is ‘active’, your body is busy at work — around the clock 🕐 🕕 🕙 (24/7) — "fighting" 😖🥊🥊 the disease.

In other words (in perhaps over simple terms), your body’s in ‘overdrive’ wrestling 🤼‍♀️ with inflammation 🔥, so you’re going to be thoroughly, utterly exhausted. 🤤

(It’s not ‘lack of willpower’ or ‘laziness’ or whatever ‘label’ uninformed onlookers may mistakenly slap on to the debilitating exhaustion. 😵 )

It’s your body relentlessly, tirelessly, heroically, fighting 👊👊 a mighty foe 🐉 — keeping you alive. 🤯

So, until that inflammation/ disease dissipates/ subdues, you’ll likely continue to be chronically exhausted/ fatigued. 😴 🤤 😵

Please 🙏 , kindly try to take as a good a care of yourself as you possibly can, YanniBaci/ Deb, to subdue ‘the beast’ 🐲🐉 .

Wishing you both, Dunk & Deb, the very best. 😌 🙏 🍀 🌺 🌞

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[Oh . . . if this helps at all in grasping the nature/ depth of the fatigue/ exhaustion, “The Spoon Theory" 🥄 ( healthunlocked.com/nras/pos... ) sometimes does the trick 🤹‍♀️ .]

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[Originally posted at: healthunlocked.com/nras/pos... ]

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If this ( healthunlocked.com/nras/pos... , healthunlocked.com/nras/pos... ) helps put anything into perspective/ context, Nettac? 🤔

(Merely my simple (simplistic?) understanding of exhaustion/ fatigue? 🤷‍♀️ )

Don’t think trying to do ‘more’ exercise is going to do anything towards increasing energy 🔋⚡️⚡️ — decreasing exhaustion 🤤 😴 . In fact, quite the opposite. 😳

Sounds like your body is already busily expending all its energy ⚡️⚡️ fighting/ battling inflammation around the clock (thus the fatigue/ exhaustion) & is desperately seeking respite — restorative rest, recuperation. (Merely my layman’s opinion. 🤷‍♂️ )

Maybe ‘disease activity’ is busy percolating (using up your precious energy ⚡️⚡️ ) & needs to be better managed/ controlled by whatever means works well for you? 🤔

Hoping you find the deep, restorative energy soon, Nettac. 😌 🙏 🍀 🌺 🌞

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Fully, understood. 😌 🙏 Snail-paced 🐌 walk where a turtle 🐢 could easily outrun us. 😯

[Similarly, had near bed-bound periods of utter, relentless exhaustion 🤤 😴 😵. Could barely manage ‘essentials’: toilet 🚽 , feeding 🥣 , ‘resting’ 🛌 . Forget bathing 🛀 ! 😳 (That had to be ‘worked up to’. 😳 Pee yew 🙊 . Could scrape ‘the stink’ 🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️ off!) 🤯 😆 . ]

Vitamin D 💊 (physician testing/ prescribing high-loading dose followed by lower maintenance dose) & anaemia of chronic illness (which tie into chronic fatigue/ exhaustion noted above) may be a points of research 🕵️‍♀️ 🔎, if interested , Nettac? 🤔

Yes indeed, gawd help those with children 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 to raise, careers (👮‍♀️👷‍♂️💂‍♀️🕵️‍♂️👩‍⚕️👨‍🌾👩‍🍳👨‍🎓👩‍🏫👨‍🏭👩‍💻👨‍💼👩‍🔧👨‍🔬👩‍🎨👨‍🚒👩‍✈️👩‍🚀👩‍⚖️🎅 ) to maintain — demanding lives 🙍‍♀️🙍‍♂️ to ‘live’ while struggling 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️ with illness 🤕 🤢 😵 .

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As far as up-keeping house chores 🏠 , why remove 'protective layer of coating' (aka ‘dust’) from furnishings? Why 'hoover free-range wildlife grazings’ (‘crumbs’ for critters) from floors/ carpets? ☺️

Easing up on ‘unrealistic expectations’ of ourselves, ‘letting go’ of less important things, & ‘asking for help’ when we need it is sometimes a mind-easing way to go? 🤔

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😌 🙏 🍀 🌺 🌞

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