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Harnessing your fibromyalgia anxiety with mindfulness meditation

Leave a Comment / Fibromyalgia, Relief, Treatments / By Dr James Robber

“Breathe and let be”, Jon Kabat-Zinn Within the last two decades the concept of mindfulness meditation has been adopted by schools, hospitals, businesses, police and even the military. Those who teach/mentor MM to people in the huge business of organized sport, the corporate world, the military, no doubt live with some degree of contradiction in their lives. …

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Fibromyalgia is NOT a ‘Disease’! Manual therapists to “help”?

Leave a Comment / Fibromyalgia, Relief, Treatments / By Dr James Robber

“Names are not always what they seem”, Mark Twain How to go about convincing experts and the general population that fibromyalgia is not a disease, but a Medically Unexplained Syndrome (MUS)? It is in fact, a dis-ease. It is mysterious in the ways in which it exhibits itself with a vast array of features, but …

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Fibromyalgia and Nurses

Leave a Comment / Fibromyalgia, Relief, Treatments / By Dr James Robber

“Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone”, Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale is famous as the woman who developed modern nursing. From May 6-12th we celebrate ‘National Nurses Week’ in …

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Fibromyalgia: Healing yourself

Leave a Comment / Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia, Relief, Treatments / By Dr James Robber

” What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process”, Lady Gaga There has rarely been such public awareness of fibromyalgia as there is now that Lady Gaga has become …

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Fibromyalgia and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Leave a Comment / Fibromyalgia, Flare, Relief, Treatments / By Dr James Robber

“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 from a wonderful therapist. To practice what I learned requires discipline and daily/moment to moment awareness. Unfortunately, after several crises, real and/or imagined, I recently …

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Fibromyalgia: the mosaic of treatments

Leave a Comment / Fibromyalgia, Relief, Treatments / By Dr James Robber

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom”, Bertrand Russell I believe that those of us with central sensitization, that is, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue , or to call it by another name -“post traumatic stress disorder”, all suffer from chronic anxiety/ fear. These terms are , in my view, interchangeable. They can keep us imprisoned …

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Fibromyalgia and Medical Marijuana Revisited

Leave a Comment / Cannabis, Fibromyalgia, Relief, Treatments / By Dr James Robber

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in”, Leonard Cohen-Anthem Cannabinophobia has resulted in a frenzy of political, medical, social and cultural chaos for generations in spite of the fact that this herb has been around for 38 million years. Prohibition against cannabis usage has resulted in billions of dollars spent trying …

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Fibromyalgia and Happiness

Leave a Comment / Fibromyalgia, Relief, Treatments / By Dr James Robber

“People are made happy by one thing and one thing only-pleasant sensations in their bodies”, Yuval Noah Harari What is happiness? Sometimes I think I have been seeking it my entire life and it still often eludes me. I want to be happy. I have worked at it. I meditate, have done yoga and chi-gong, I …

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10 Home Remedies for Fibromyalgia Sufferers

Leave a Comment / Fibromyalgia, Remedies, Treatments / By Dr James Robber

Fibromyalgia is a condition that is characterized by extensive pain in muscles and joints. This pain is frequently accompanied by poor sleep and fatigue over and above, issues with memory and temper. Understand that there is no cure for fibromyalgia, but there are different ways to manage it symptoms. Activate your lifestyle: Quite a lot of …

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Cognitive behavioral therapy is useful for fibromyalgia patients

Leave a Comment / Exercise, Fibromyalgia, Treatments / By Dr James Robber

According to Juan V. Luciano, Ph.D., a psychologist and researcher at Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona, Spain said, “there is an agreement among the researchers that fibromyalgia syndrome may not be a single disease and the subcategories of the fibromyalgia patients may be identifiable.” He also adds, “Developing meaningful treatments that patients …

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