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Posted 1/7/2013 6:47 AM (GMT 0)
I know this may be hard to believe but this worked for me.

I've had IBS with a few bowel infections for almost 10 years now. I haven't had blood in stool but my bowels are often in a state of inflamation.

about 5 days ago, I got some sort of bacteria infection and was in excruciating pain (which i'm sure most people on here know all about).

After about the third day of pain (pain bouts would last for about 12hrs after eating) I decided to stop trying to avoid the pain and to face it head on.

So what I would do is just close my eyes and focus inward on the most painful part of my guts. After about 5-20 seconds of this that pain point would disapear and I would find the next most painful part of my guts. All I was doing is just paying attention and even trying to connect energy from my heart at the same time to help each point of pain heal.

This went on for about an hour and by that time, most of the pain was gone and my entire body was completely relaxed. I actually felt really good, as if my body had completely healed. And so far I haven't had a flare up. I think whatever bacteria had infected my guts has cleared.

So from now on, whenever I notice any pain in my body, I just pay attention to it with my mind. I go ad deep into the pain as possible and it seems that's what my body wants me to do because the pain eventually disappears.

I hope this helps somebody on here.

Posted 1/7/2013 8:16 AM (GMT 0)
amazingly refreshing to hear of such remarkable recovery....
I'm blown away. Not even hard to believe it can also cure your infection. And you were able to do this in just one hour...absolutely speechless.

What's more amazing is that all the miracles arrive here after midnight.

For your next post....it's flare.

q
Posted 1/7/2013 10:28 AM (GMT 0)
If the pain keeps coming back, it means something is wrong. As for your trick I do it too when I have major cramping to try and not focus on the pain until it dissapears.
Posted 1/7/2013 1:06 PM (GMT 0)
Q- be nice.

Spudnik, I'm glad you found something that works for you. Personally for me, if I take my mind off the pain I actually feel better.
Posted 1/7/2013 1:35 PM (GMT 0)
I've been doing this for years for only the most severe pain. However, just because you've managed to convince your brain's pain center that it doesn't feel anything doesn't mean the pathology is gone.

Pain is an interesting thing. Like time, it really only exists in our brains. That's why we all experience it differently and manage it differently. The evolutional reason for pain is to make us stop doing whatever is hurting us and do what we need to do to heal. Please do heed this warning your body is giving you, even though you've found an effective way to manage it.
Posted 1/8/2013 3:04 AM (GMT 0)
Well I guess paying attention may not be all of the story.

Before I began doing the focusing I went through some deep introspection of my life's less glorious achievements to see how I messed up so much to have put my body into such an array of disfunction. I realized how i've consciously acted like a parasite in relationships throughout my life and how I made decisions to smoke which gave me lung infections which led to me choosing to take antibiotics and then how I figured colloidal silver was a good idea (like spreading round up herbicide over my entire lawn to kill a weed).

I have come to realize in my experience with energy medicine that the brain can't help heal a disease while the soul or whatever you want to call it is blaming an external source for creating it. If I can't accept 100% responsibility for my disease, my brain just sits and waits for whomever or whatever I claim is responsible to come over and fix it. Victim consciousness has been a dead end for me. Most if not all of the stubborn injuries i've witnessed heal in energy medicine were completely disolved once the emotional blame around the event was finally cleared. This tells me that the brain/bodymind is just waiting to start taking responsibility for itsef so it can get on with the business of healing and the rest of life.

I think we've all seen in other people that when they blame their condition on someone else, they can't get their work done or they just never get to become a responsible person. I see that in other people because i'm looking at myself when I see that.

So I cried for a while after reviewing my life's decisions that led up to my condition, then I appologized to my intestines for doing what I did. I didn't apologize so much with words but rather with intent. Like wild animals might do in nature if they were trying to make up. I then, while focusing my mind right into the center of the pain with no complaint whatsoever, asked if there was anything I could do to help fix the messup I caused. Again I didn't do this with words but with feeling and complete surrender. And as I was doing that I could feel my heart getting involved and increasing circulation. My colon started pulsing with the beat of my heart. I could also feel an energy system coordinating with my thiamus and cerebellum. Could have been T cell production/distriubution but from an energetic point of view it felt like an organized distribution of heart energy coordinated by my attention to the pain points.

In some accupuncture theory I came across recently, which I tend to agree with, the idea is that the cells are all connected via electrical circuits and when circuits are broken, electrical resistance builds up and the result is pain impulsing to the brain. The pain's purpose is to let the brain know the location of the break down in the cellular structure (electrical wiring) so it can initiate the repair sequence. Pain killers actually down-regulate the cells - essentially turning off the flag indicator thus bypassing the electrical wiring that tells the neural network that it needs to heal. And until we are able to become vulnerable and responsible for the pain, this is a way to cope. So pain killers, in that regard, could be hindering the healing process. I think if we want to take something in pill form that will cause the body to heal itself, we should take something that will increase our sensitivity to pain and create more introspection so we can see the truth - that we are unequivically singularly responsible for our condition. And this means that we are able to respond to our condition in the way that nature intended us to be.
Posted 1/8/2013 3:48 AM (GMT 0)
Really, Quincy? Has life become so inorganic to humans that you have you never heard of revitalization of energy, and self talk? What do you think yoga and meditation is based around?
Posted 1/8/2013 5:45 AM (GMT 0)
matters not to me what it's based around...it won't make an infection disappear.

If you believe it, go for it.
q
Posted 1/8/2013 5:56 AM (GMT 0)
i have tried reiki (which is basically what you are describing) and it can help sometimes. i only do it when i'm desperate or don't have a bathroom available. it's definitely not something that helps with my continuous cramping. the mind/body connection only goes so far. there would be times when i'd be chanting my reiki sayings to myself while touching the painful part of my gut and i'd do it sometimes until i cried. when i couldn't hack it anymore, i'd go to the bathroom (pooping always relieves my pain).

i wish thinking healing thoughts was enough to get me out of this disease, but i've never seen it done.
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