“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are”, Anaïs Nin One of the common sayings in Mindfulness Meditation is that thoughts are not facts. In…
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Fibromyalgia: Strategies to Change the Brain
“One should sympathise with the colour , the beauty, the joy of life” , Oscar Wilde Changing the neural pathways in the brain from ruminating about pain or various other…
“Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps”: struggling with fibromyalgia
” Early in life, I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety”, Woody Allen Anxiety is the root cause of fibromyalgia, particularly at an early age, or even in the…
Fibromyalgia and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf”, Jon Kabat-Zinn Several years ago I was privileged to take the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course, not once, but twice…
Fibromyalgia and brain ‘zaps’
“There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me”, Pink Floyd Just as I thought that I had nothing new to write about I have discovered that the weird ‘brain’ sensations…
Sara Corning: A Brave Humanitarian Nurse
“She learned to Serve Others”, headstone of Sara Corning My dear Readers: Now it has been 11 years of writing almost monthly blogs about fibromyalgia and attending to the stories…
Fibromyalgia, my unquiet mind
” The mind is the most capricious of insects-flitting, fluttering”, Virginia Woolf Sit quietly for a minute and imagine this stream with leaves quietly floating by in the water. Now…
Developing fibromyalgia as a child
“Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves”, Susan Forward Recently a commentator on one of the blogs wanted more of my personal information. She…
Fibromyalgia: ANXIETY- PANIC ATTACKS
” PTSD is similar to Panic Attacks in that once turned on, the anxiety is fed into a vicious cycle”, David Yeung Anxiety, depression and panic attacks are triplets. They live together…
Neuropathy and Fibromyalgia (Why Small Fiber may effects fibro painful?)
By: Dr Alex Robber I have been trying to research a condition I have ripened the first of July 2016. I may have Small Fiber Neuropathy and Fibromyalgia. But I…