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Pain Relief Tips
Inflammation and pain are often very
much related to diet. Eating animal protein may cause inflammation and lead to
ailments such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and carpal tunnel syndrome. Eating
less animal protein and eating more raw fruits and vegetables can decrease
inflammation and pain.
Sunlight
is a remedy for faster healing and pain relief. A study published in the January
2006 issue if Psychosomatic Medicine reported that postoperative patients in a
University of Pittsburg study recovered faster and experienced less stress when
recovering in a sunny room, as opposed to in a dimly lighted room. They also
used 22 percent less painkillers per hour. Sunlight increases serotonin, a brain
chemical that affects mood, sleep and appetite.
REST.
Sometimes simple rest is the best strategy for pain relief. If muscles
are overworked or stressed, allowing the muscle to recover through non-use may
free you from pain.
Movement
is a good pain reliever. The body wants to move. By taking a muscle through its
full range of motion, muscle soreness and tightness can often be eased and
recovery and healing accelerated. Active Stretching is the most efficient
movement you can use to help relieve pain caused by tight, sore muscles.
Breathe
when you have pain from tight muscles. Holding your breath locks muscle
tightness in place. Doing an exhale helps to stimulate tight muscles to relax
and release .
Water may
be a good strategy for easing muscle pain. Dehydration can cause an increase in
inflammation and swelling and slow recovery time of sore, overworked or injured
muscles.
Simply drinking more water has been shown to decrease soft
tissue pain that is the result of fatigue, overuse, inflammation and injury.
Certain
foods can increase pain and slow healing. Sugar, caffeine and saturated fats all
increase inflammation which is often a major cause of soft tissue pain. Limiting
or eliminating these foods from your diet can help to decrease inflammation and
therefore decrease pain.
New
England's holistic magazine since 1987
Winter
2007 Issue
"Healing Pain" Article by Barry L. Bailey, MS, LMT
The body wants to be well.
Learn how the application of movement and
breathing can ease soft tissue/muscle pain.
https://www.spiritofchange.org/healing-pain/
“You should stretch to do Yoga.
You should not do Yoga to stretch,”
Yoga Bhusahn Yogi Vinay
Rai, distinguished Yoga teacher, India.
"Your Pain is Your Choice"
Barry
Bailey, Creator and developer of STAR Tech®
"Listen to your body; it knows what it needs most."
Terri
Trespicio
"It is easy to dodge responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of
dodging our responsibilities."
Josiah Stamp
"When
someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it,
You have a
moral obligation to share it with others."
Chinese Proverb
"Recognition is necessary for healing and recovery."
Unknown
"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a
matter of opportunity."
Hippocrates
"If we could give every individual the right amount of
nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found
the safest way to health."
Hippocrates
"Health is not a miracle of modern science. The principles
of self-healing are a naturally occurring component of all biological systems.
We are born with a healing system and can cultivate an awareness of and
appreciation for the largely common-sense principles that seem to facilitate
this healing by simply paying attention"
David S.
Riley, MD in Alternative Therapies, March 1997
"The (human) body itself is the most advanced healing tool ever created. Within
the body as a whole, and within every cell of the body, is contained the
totality of information that a person needs to be healthy, to constantly heal,
and regenerate the body."
Jon
Schreiber, Chiropractor, Body-work Director, The Institute for Health
Improvement, Oakland, CA
"A greatest pleasure in life is doing what
people say you cannot do."
Walter
Bagehot, English Journalist
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing,
but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius
"Later never exists!"
Anonymous
“To grow, you must be willing to let your present
and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.”
Alan Cohen
"Nothing happens until
something moves."
Albert Einstein
". . . exercise can help people with arthritis stay fit enough to perform
everyday tasks like cooking, dressing and bathing."
AARP Bulletin/June 2005
"Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is."
Christiaan
Barnard
"The body never lies."
Martha Graham, Modern
Dancer and Choreographer
"Think only of the need, and the impossible is accomplished."
Clara Barton, Founder of the Red Cross
The two most power-filled words are "I can".
You CAN heal.
You CAN be pain-free.
"Stretching is a daily requirement."
Aaron Mattes,
developer
of Active Isolated Stretching
"Stretching should be a painless, peaceful experience."
Aaron Mattes, developer of Active Isolated Stretching
"Everything we do to each other on this planet effects each of us
in some way."
Laurel J. Freeman, AMTA
Past President
"We've never seen a condition Massage does not benefit."
Developmental Psychologist Tiffany Field, PhD, Founder of the Touch
Research Institute at the Miami School of Medicine. Quoted in AARP Magazine.
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you
really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have
lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must
do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
The Wolves
|
Two
Wolves
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a
battle that goes on inside people.
He said, "My son, the battle is between two
"wolves" inside us all.
One is Evil.
It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret,
greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies,
false pride, superiority, and ego.
The other is Good.
It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility,
kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and
faith."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his
grandfather:
"Which wolf wins?"
The old Cherokee simply replied,
"The one you feed."
I received the above message in an email and feel it must be shared by all.
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