07-21-2013, 03:58 PM
My left hand was hurt in an accident, and for several years it felt like it was in a vice being squeezed 24/7. It tingled all the time. I now know that is a sign of nerve damage and lack of oxygen and nutrients to the spot.
One day I was so depressed that I went for an 8 km walk in 72 mins. I felt better from flushing blood around my body and getting some endorphins into my head.
I started walking every day and got up to walking marathons and further. Then one day I realised my hand was not tingling any more. I worked out that it must be all the fresh blood pouring through the hands at a higher blood pressure as I walked for hours and hours swinging my arms fast. Exercise was healing the damaged spots.
Race walking (and power walking) uses 60% of the muscles in the body, running uses only 40%. A racewalker gets very strong in the upper body from swinging the arms. A runner's arms hardly do any work other than balancing the rythym of the body.
The Tens machine can stimulate the skin to increase blood circulation, healing and growth plate strength on bones, but it takes many months.
Pain can be part of the healing process, and also from tissue being stretched from the body sending down blood to handle the emergency at that spot on the body.
Pain can set up a relay loop that may not stop even if you amputate the sore spot. The Tens machine interferes with the looping, and often that is enough to break the new habit of sending pain for years and years after the orginal injury.
Allergies to food are a result of the mind misinterpreting the food as an alien from space trying to take over the human body with brute force. So the body actually kills itself with a massive all-out attempt to repel the "enemy".
Poorly digested mico-particles of food can get into the bloodstream and set off world war 3. Arthritis is a bad diagnosis by the mind, and it makes the bones become distorted or worn out.
When a body has been crushed and blood supply shut off too long, it can be difficult (but not impossible) for the body to carry out a number of repairs. 3 days after a heart attack, the brain can be seen to be doing repairs to blood lines in the heart, even putting a new pipe through.
Pain is not real - it is a message that there is some physical or emotional damage has occurred. A boy in England could not feel any pain and could hold his arm over a steaming kettle and say to his mother, "look mum, there are funny blisters appearing on my skin". He could break his leg and not know he had to go to hospital.
A child that hurts itself in a fall, develops a cycle of running to mum for a kiss that makes the pain go away.
When you admit something feels painful, you can give it a name or a score out of 100.
You can sometimes talk to pain and help it to dissipate by making it feel loved and appreciated. You bring it out into the light of day and put the spotlight on it. Might sound silly but if you ignore it, then it keeps coming back to annoy you.
Pain is wanting to talk to you, it has something to tell you. Better listen to it. Pain is calling the emergence number to ask for someone to do something about the injury or emotional stress - and it can't switch off until someone says, "thanks for your help Mr Pain, the medics are here and they will take over your duties. You can go home now".
When the ambulance arrives, there is a big sense of relief - Doctors will do what they can, it is out of our hands now.
Pain won't go off duty until it feels someone else (more capable than it) has taken over the case. When you understand this key fact, then pain will go on holiday temporarily or permantly.
One day I was so depressed that I went for an 8 km walk in 72 mins. I felt better from flushing blood around my body and getting some endorphins into my head.
I started walking every day and got up to walking marathons and further. Then one day I realised my hand was not tingling any more. I worked out that it must be all the fresh blood pouring through the hands at a higher blood pressure as I walked for hours and hours swinging my arms fast. Exercise was healing the damaged spots.
Race walking (and power walking) uses 60% of the muscles in the body, running uses only 40%. A racewalker gets very strong in the upper body from swinging the arms. A runner's arms hardly do any work other than balancing the rythym of the body.
The Tens machine can stimulate the skin to increase blood circulation, healing and growth plate strength on bones, but it takes many months.
Pain can be part of the healing process, and also from tissue being stretched from the body sending down blood to handle the emergency at that spot on the body.
Pain can set up a relay loop that may not stop even if you amputate the sore spot. The Tens machine interferes with the looping, and often that is enough to break the new habit of sending pain for years and years after the orginal injury.
Allergies to food are a result of the mind misinterpreting the food as an alien from space trying to take over the human body with brute force. So the body actually kills itself with a massive all-out attempt to repel the "enemy".
Poorly digested mico-particles of food can get into the bloodstream and set off world war 3. Arthritis is a bad diagnosis by the mind, and it makes the bones become distorted or worn out.
When a body has been crushed and blood supply shut off too long, it can be difficult (but not impossible) for the body to carry out a number of repairs. 3 days after a heart attack, the brain can be seen to be doing repairs to blood lines in the heart, even putting a new pipe through.
Pain is not real - it is a message that there is some physical or emotional damage has occurred. A boy in England could not feel any pain and could hold his arm over a steaming kettle and say to his mother, "look mum, there are funny blisters appearing on my skin". He could break his leg and not know he had to go to hospital.
A child that hurts itself in a fall, develops a cycle of running to mum for a kiss that makes the pain go away.
When you admit something feels painful, you can give it a name or a score out of 100.
You can sometimes talk to pain and help it to dissipate by making it feel loved and appreciated. You bring it out into the light of day and put the spotlight on it. Might sound silly but if you ignore it, then it keeps coming back to annoy you.
Pain is wanting to talk to you, it has something to tell you. Better listen to it. Pain is calling the emergence number to ask for someone to do something about the injury or emotional stress - and it can't switch off until someone says, "thanks for your help Mr Pain, the medics are here and they will take over your duties. You can go home now".
When the ambulance arrives, there is a big sense of relief - Doctors will do what they can, it is out of our hands now.
Pain won't go off duty until it feels someone else (more capable than it) has taken over the case. When you understand this key fact, then pain will go on holiday temporarily or permantly.
