Stress Relief Central
Chronic pain causes stress on so many levels, and that’s the plain unvarnished truth. Also true, for many if not all disorders, stress makes chronic pain worse, and in the case of disorders involving the central nervous system, such as RSD/CRPS, stress can even precipitate pain flares. So it behooves (ha! Don’t you just love the English language sometimes?) us to find as many ways as possible to keep the stress down. Below you’ll find my ever expanding list of tricks and tips and strategies for stress relief, including some extra sections, like some funnies to make you laugh, and my daily pup-o-gram, which features photos or videos of puppies and other babies and animals and baby animals to make you smile! Don’t forget to try out my relaxation/self-hypnosis scripts; you can read them to yourself then do the imagining afterwards, or get someone to read them to you (eventually, I hope to offer those of you without a willing reader some readings of my own)…. In any case, I hope that you may find them helpful. It’s a technique that’s been a real help to me, especially in times that my system has been overwhelmed with challenges. I hope to expand this section as time goes by… and I hope to help keep you smiling, because even one little smile can help you through the dark woods wherein we sometimes dwell.
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So onward to Stress Relief! Check out all the Stress Relief Central pages, and don’t forget to email me your best stress relief tips to add to <> and your webding inspired tips too! Here are the most recent posts in each of the other sections.p>
Daily Pup-O-Gram
Here's hoping all my Hannukah celebrating friends have been having a wonderful time, that all my Christmas celebrating friends will have oodles o fun in the coming days, and that all my dear fellow Beast Tamers will look back on whatever winter holidays they celebrate as having been filled to the brim with joy! (And I hope that no one feels as grumpy as these fluffy fellows in their holiday gear seem to be!) Joy to you all. <3
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Post Date: 2014-12-23 From Daily Pup-O-Gram
Darling Distractions
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Friendly Funnies
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Creative Visualization/Guided Imagery Scripts
Our minds are powerful engines; one of the most stunning things we can make with those engines is the images of our mind’s eye. Call it daydreaming, call it creative visualization, it harnesses our powers for observation, creativity, sensory memory, and above all, imagination. The images we create send potent messages to every system in our bodies. For those of us in chronic pain, this means that we can choose to imagine situations that will calm our pesky, ever-ready-to-get-just-a-little-toooo-worked-up CNS (central nervous system). Include as many details and senses as you can, get the scene as real as it can be...;
Those of us with RSD/CRPS, and in fact anyone with unremitting pain, will sometimes need to calm down a CNS that's misfiring; sending repeated messages of "Danger! Danger! Fight or flight immanent!!!!" throughout the body. Those messages, caused by the pain we are experiencing, flood our systems with adrenaline, nor-adrenaline, cortisol, and a plethora of stress hormones that are a great help when running from a tiger, but not only not so helpful for chronic pain, but sure to increase it, and all the other dysautonomias that go with it. We just need to slow everything down. So remember all we know about creative visualization. What would it be like to be something slow... something calm, gentle, unafraid, full of peace and love? Well, if you know sloths like I now know sloths, you'll know that sloths are the epitome of all of these characteristics. Just look at the gentle smiles on those contented, loving creatures!
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Post Date: 2013-10-10 From Creative Visualization/Guided Imagery Scripts
Meditation
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