Archive for the ‘empath’ Category
Saturday, May 9th, 2009
“Self development is a higher duty than self sacrifice”, Elizabeth Stanton
As I read more and more about brain mapping and how to change the pain mappings in my brain I am reminded about how intensely I wrote in my book regarding the highly sensitive person (HSP, according to Elaine Aron). This is the ‘empath’, the person who senses what other people are feeling and takes on the emotions of others as though they were her/his own( I don’t mean this in the usual sense of the ‘psychic’ person, or in any mystical way). I still stand by that description of the person with fibromyalgia. We are like a toxic sponge! Now, I believe that this type of person (mainly, but, of course not solely, women) has the personality characteristics of the self sacrificing, doing good for others (what Dr. James Rochelle calls ‘goodism’) and ‘giving yourself away’ (a term Nick Matheson coined). When I think of Florence Nightingale on this May day, her birthday month, suffering from fibromyalgia, I think of her as a primary example of self sacrificing.
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Posted in CBC video, David Suzuki, Dr. Norma Doidge, Dr.James Rochelle, Dr.Peter Levine, Fibromyalgia, The Brain that Changes Itself, The Naute of Things, Waking the Tiger Healing Trauma, allmothering, brain mapping, dis-ease, emotional trauma, empath, fear, florence nightingale, goodism, group gatherings, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, psychonuerologists, root cause of fibromyalgia, self sacrificing, self-regulation therapy, sensory input, talk therapy, ultra-sensitive person, unconscious brain | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
“Memory, the warder of the brain”, William Shakespeare
This is it!!! In my view this is the most significent in-sight I have had about the pain of fibromyalgia. It has been a long and interesting journey beginning with my book in which I laid the foundation about why women are more prone to developing FMS and my conclusion that it is actually caused by an over-aroused nervous system. However, while this was the first step, and the primary one, more has been revealed to me and I am very excited over the unlimited hope there could be for us all. I still don’t have all the answers and it may be that I am presnting information that is not quite accurate, but it has been a steep learning curve and requires much un-learning, which is said to be more difficult than learning. It all began with my physiotherapist, Nick Matheson who brought me to a path which I had never travelled down before, that is, to explore the relationship of pain and the brain, rather than looking simply at fibromyalgia as the result of a hyper-aroused nervous sytem. The journey down this path is not yet complete so I welcome comments from others who are more learned in this domain than I am.
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Posted in Craig Hassed, Daniel Amen, David Butler and Lorimer Moseley, Diane Jacobs and Nick Matheson, Dr. Bud Craig, Fibromyalgia, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Kalu Rinpoche, R, Richard Davidson, The Wellcome Trust, activity diary, adrenalin and cortisol, adrenals, aleksandr luria, autonomic nervous system, body/brain/emotions, body/mind/spirit, calm the nervous system, catastrophizing, central nervous system, diaphragmatic breathing, emotions, empath, imagery, interoceptive pathway, memory, michael merzenich, mind and brain, mindfulness meditation, movement, norman doidge, overly empathetic, pain, parasympathetic nervous system, paul bach-y-rita, peripheral nervous system, peter goodman, plasticity of the brain, psychological techniques, reconceptualize the problem, reframing, responding rather than reacting, sandra and matthew blakeslee, sympathetic nervous system, the brain and fibromyalgia, training the brain, women and fibromyalgia | 6 Comments »
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it”, George Carlin
To-day one of my favourite comedians died. I shall miss his humour and while I obviously agree with Carlin’s view that both men and women are from earth, I cannot be quite so cavalier about dealing with many known differences. Sensitivity and empathy, for example, are human emotions that are often expressed very differently among men and women and both of these affect or may even be responsible for fibromyalgia.
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Posted in 'emotional intelligence', Fibromyalgia, George Carlin, Gulf War Syndrome, IQ, Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, cannot generalize, caring work, empath, empathy, feminine traits, fibromyalgi and highly intuitive, fibromyalgia and high energy, gay men, high achievers, highly motivated, human emotions, interaction, masculine traits, men and fibromyalgia, political issue, sensitivity, women's movement | 5 Comments »
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency”, Natalie Goldberg
Stress and excitement are two main triggers for an acute onset of fibromyalgia. Stress may be only minimal or severe, temporary or chronic, nonetheless it is usually bound to bring on an attack, usually a day or two after the episode. Excitement can be happy or frightening, but that too usually precipitates pain, fatigue, sleeplessness and perhaps depression among a host of other undesirable symptoms.
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Posted in December is a stimulating month, Fibromyalgia, Fibromyalgia:why more women?, Robert Sapolsky, addicted to high achievment, empath, family dynamcis, fibromyalgia and watchfulness, gift buying, highly sensitive personality, holidays, overstimulated nervous system, peaceful contentment, root cause of fibromyalgia, stress/excitement, supersensitive personality, tranquillity, travel, ultrasensitive personality, women's intuition | 2 Comments »
