Beat the Fibromyalgia
“One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter,complete silence“, Andre Kostelanetz There is a new (at least to me) term called “misophonia” (Wednesday, September 7, 2001 , Life section, The Globe and Mail) in which sounds can cause severe reactions in people ( article written by Joyce Cohen)….
“In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race-never quite sane in the night”, Mark Twain My father died at 93 last week. My mother, also 93, is in a state of extreme shock…
“The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response “, Daniel Goleman. Many years ago I had hoped that it wouldn’t take long before most would finally give up searching for viral/bacterial/hormonal or other CAUSES of fibromyalgia and agree…
” Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit” , Martin Luther King, Jr. Violence can be defined in many ways. It is anger at its peak in the forms of shouting, yelling, hitting, sexual and/ or physical and /or emotional abuse, throwing things, or any other way of…
“Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you”, Neil de Grasse Tyson There are numerous claims made by those who practice or have beliefs in woo woo (irrational ideas based upon lack of scientific evidence) about various concoctions, herbs, homeopathic solutions (sugar pills) and other…
“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished”, Benjamin Franklin It really is all about the brain and how new pathways can become established and old ones can be paths less travelled. So many report their fibromyalgia began with an accident, surgery, violence or another episodic event that was physically shocking to the nervous system. Some call…
“Life has got to be lived-that’s all there is to it. At seventy, I would say that advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that “this,too, shall pass!”, Eleanor Roosevelt In my book I write about the confusion in the research regarding whether or not fibromyalgia improves (or not) with aging. I…
“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open”, Alexander Graham Bell In so many ways we are fortunate to have access to valuable information which then allows us to take more control over our own lives. I can only speculate about what…
” It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play”, Pema Chodron What is it that prevents many of us from changing our thoughts, emotions, and ways of being in the world even when we know that what we do, think or act…