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😌 Meditation, Mindfulness, Movement, Breathing, Relaxation, Stress Reduction -- Dr. Dean Ornish-Style
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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. . . . "
"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. . . ."
"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….
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''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.'' "
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.😀
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...
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’:
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. 😌 ☺️
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 😴 💤 . . . . ☺️
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 🤹♀️ .]
(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. 😌 🙏 🍀 🌺 🌞
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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