Calm Your Mind, Heal Your Body

2015 to this point

Chronic. Pain. December it came back with a vengeance, February March were brutal. Scared me enough to see a Dr. in March. Allergies during March worsened the back/hip. Coughing fits involved the whole body and worsened the pain, couldn't stand straight. I'm finally seeing some sort of improvement, less crooked when standing/walking, but it's still there. Trying to rid myself of it, yet again.

Dr. Lissa Rankin, "Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal You...

23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?

Update 9/3/14...It's gone...Again...I am back

Despite having some slight issues with the right hip/butte (one or the other, never at the same time)this past weekend, right now it feels 100% again! As unexpected as it came, it has left the body. I feel no pain, no sensation, nothing on the right side. It feels completely pain free and normal. I want to run, jump...Moooovvvveee!!! I wish I were able to single out a particular reason for the quick recovery, but I can't. I can admit to trying this though, though I didn't realize the effect would come so swiftly; I've been trying to observe and accept all thoughts, particularly when it's of anger. Not trying to stifle it or shut it down, but letting it burn itself out, just listening to it, aware of it, but being careful not to add to it. I want to attribute the healing to something, this may be it, but I can't find a single thing, as the healing cause, the pain has left so quickly, as if it was never there in the first place. I'll leave it at: the body is very very smart, and things I can't comprehend are undoubtedly affecting the state of my body/mind/life.

Great Article via NPR on Back Pain..."movement is medicine"

great article that reaffirms my experiences and resolution(s) of back pain. indeed, movement is medicine.

4/5/14 update

it's subsided/almost gone...again.
there is definitely a mental switch, a thought switch,
learned I need to be more aware of mind vs. get wrapped up in thoughts
observe vs. add to the fire
daily,
moment to moment.

consistency and clarity.
you may not be able to control the thought
but you can nudge it
you can influence it back to what you want
sometimes, you have to nudge, a lot
but this is the nature of training
slowly, you need less and less guidance/nudging
and it does it all on its own.

but at this point?
I need a lot of nudging.

Don't Quit
It'll happen
but
It takes
Consistency and Vigilance.
Go.
Do.