Archive for September, 2009

Migraine and Reiki

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Ever interested in learning something new, I was pleased to receive this message from Lara.

Lara says:

I have suffered from migraines for over a year now. I’ve been to many doctors, specialists, tests, medicines, massage, websites, articles, etc all trying to heal myself.

My new method of trying to heal it is with Reiki. It has been the most pleasant healing process and most effective. I am not attuned to energy healing myself (yet) so I contact healer friends when I have an attack and they are always so happy to send healing energy my way with distance healing.

I woke up this morning and found your blog and knew I had to share my story. Just last night, 3am, I woke up with a migraine I had been trying to shake off for over a day. I went to my computer & emailed everyone I knew to send me healing. I was desperate as the migraine was reaching the point of severe pain & I was desperate for relief.

I sent the email and as I went back to sleep I felt great energy surround me, strong energy, very peaceful & soothing. I woke up this morning and my migraine is completely GONE. I feel 100% myself again. I’m so grateful to have found a source of relief. I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone. It has turned my pain around completely.

Although, I still get these migraines, since starting Reiki as a healing treatment, there have been fewer attacks (as I use to get them 1 or 2 a month) & the pain is weakened significantly.

I’m so so grateful and look forward to the day of when I am attuned to help heal myself and others.

Jessica Miller is who demonstrated Reiki for me & who really informed me about energy healing…
http://www.reikimastery.com/

Thanks for sharing your story, Lara.  Please keep us posted on your progress.

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Migraine and Hypnotism

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Anyone who has bought my migraine ebook will be aware of the section on hypnotherapy, commonly referred to as hypnotism, and migraine. The book mentions some trials where hypnosis was used successfully for migraine.

Hypnosis  has been used as one of the oldest healing techniques since the ‘sleep temples’ of ancient Egypt. However, in 1955 the British Medical Association endorsed the practice of hypnosis and since that time it has been recognized as a valuable addition to conventional medical treatment, despite the popular myths of mind control incorrectly suggested by “stage hypnotism”. The therapy is also recognized by the American Medical Association and the American Dental Association.

There are two main approaches someone may take to hypnotherapy – either find a professionally qualified practitioner, or use self-hypnosis.  Some people find the latter approach less worrying because no third party is involved.

Your can learn self-hypnosis online, free, with Learn Hypnosis in 5 Days - a professionally created course. The first lesson of the free hypnosis course will be emailed to you immediately and then will then get further hypnosis course instalments every 2 days, and a monthly newsletter ‘Inspired Minds’.  Register right away for your free course.

NOTE: Contraindications for hypnosis

Your medical practitioner should always be consulted before you use hypnosis / hypnotherapy for migraine or tension headaches. Any pain is a warning signal from the body, and you should first check out with your physician that the pain of your migraine is not due to any other condition. In particular, hypnosis is contraindicated for anyone suffering from epilepsy, clinical depression, heart or breathing problems, allergies, psychiatric illness or anyone using recreational drugs.

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Migraine and corn

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Those people who have subscribed to the free migraine mini-course on the right will have seen my article on migraines and corn.  If you’d like to see the whole series, please subscribe.

One 19 year old reader (Sally – name changed to protect client anonymity) contacted me to tell me that she’d been baffled by the migraines she had been getting for as long as she could remember. Her Mum was a migraine sufferer and had discovered that hers were coming from spicy foods and chocolate. However Sally can eat all those things without getting any problem.

After some excellent detective work, Sally discovered that on eating certain cereal based foods and pies she always get a headache but didn’t when she excluded those foods. Reading the ingredients in both foods one common ingredient was corn starch.

Sally checked all her food to see what had corn starch in them, and found out pretty much everything contained starch. She says: “I don’t know any foods to eat without corn starch, and without cutting out half my diet.  I am petite and also trying to gain weight. How am I suppose to do that when I have to cut out pretty much all my food?”

This is a common problem. My first suggestion would be to confirm that corn starch IS the problem, by following a diet that excludes it completely for three weeks, and see what effect this has on the migraines.

Sally – you can still eat a healthy and varied diet for such a short time, following a plan such as this No Starch Diet on an Internet forum. (Any-one who is in under medical care, pregnant or breast-feeding should consult their health-provider before changing their diet.)

Follow the above plan for three weeks and see what happens to the migraines. (Be aware that any intake of starch in the exclusion period will put you at risk of a migraine.)

If you decide that corn starch IS the culprit you can decide whether the corn based products are worth the migraines!

Another thing to try is re-introducing individual culprit foods one at a time, to see if it is one food in particular or just corn starch in general that triggers your migraine.  It may be that eating the same cereal based product every day is the problem, and rotating them with different cereal bases (say wheat, corn, rice, soya) over several days can remove the problem. If you eat these foods only occasionally, the problem may go.

Hope that helps, Sally.

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