“By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it
bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. He hath cast me into the mine, and I
am become like dust and ashes” (Job 30: 18,19).
“We don’t have pain, we do pain” –Dr. Alex Cahana
Pain may only stay in our bodies if we let it. By setting
our faith, changing our perception of pain and removing barriers from our
bodies that prevent natural healing, then we are able to have a pain free life.
By including simple exercises into our everyday routine we can also maintain
our healing and restore quality of life. As we learned in our previous article,
Pillow Talk, pain can cause stress in
the body and chronic stress can cause pain. This constant stimulation of your
sympathetic nervous system causes damage to all body organs.
I found that using a mixture of deep breathing and mediation
during my prayer time have done wonders for relaxing my muscles, relieving my
pain and controlling my stress. This has also helped with my prayer life and gives
me a deeper connection with God. I know that many Christians are against
mediation, because it comes from Buddhist origin and of course if Christianity
did not come up with it then it MUST be bad, right??? Let me explain to you
what meditation is. Mediation involves concentrating your thoughts on a
specific object or thought, and slowing
down your current process, in order to give your mind a break from the extra
thoughts and stresses that run through your mind during the day. Meditation
does not need to be done with chanting and alters. Meditation can be done
concentrating on the meal you are eating, or the shower you are taking, or a
bible verse that you have read. Many of us rush through our daily prayers; we
say what we are thankful for, give God our prayer requests and AMEN. Back to
living life after that. Prayer time is meant to be quality time with the Lord
and not just one way conversation. My own routine, I slow down and break up my
prayers into sections. I will take pauses and deep breathe fully inflating and
deflating my lungs while focusing on the Holy Spirit. Not only does this allow
the Holy Spirit to work on me and give time for communication but the breathing
exercises help to reduce anxiety, alter heart function, lower blood pressure,
sleep better, increase mental clarity and energy and relieve pain. Meditation
also has these same qualities. My prayers could last for hours if I let them,
God always places more on my heart to pray for when I give him more time to
talk to me, and my prayers are so relaxing. I’m not just telling God everything
that I need and want while trying to rush to get back to my life. I am spending
quality time with the Father. We have conversations and I always awake still
feeling the Spirit with me.
“And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they
were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they
spake the Word of God with boldness” (Acts 4:31).
Relaxation techniques can work wonders in controlling our
response and experience to pain. When I go to bed each night I use autogenic
training to relax my muscles to promote a more quality rest, and help to ensure
that I will wake up pain free. I find a comfortable position to lie in and I
use short phrases to tell my muscles to relax. I work from my neck down to my
toes. “My neck is relaxed, my shoulders are relaxed, etc.”. With training you
will start to feel as your tension leaves your body and you start to relax.
I encourage you to do your research on breathing techniques,
relaxation techniques and meditation to see which exercises your body will work
best with. Since we are all different, and our pain comes from different parts
of the body and from different causes, the same treatment will not work for
everyone.
Train your body to restore good habits:
·
· Stop smoking!
Get enough sleep each night
·
Get up and exercise, walking is good for
everyone
·
Laugh!
Good habits must be learned, just like bad habits were.
“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that
wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed” (James
1:6).
“And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for
his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before” (Job
42:10).
Job lost everything!
His children, his livestock and his body was failing before his own eyes. He
was only left with a wife that told him to curse God and die, and friends that
provided no encouragement. But he did not lose faith in the one who could
restore him. And God did just that. His family was restored, he was given more
livestock than he previously owned and Job lived a long and prosperous life.
Job came through his season victorious and pain free because when God restores
you he will give you more than what you previously had plus return your time
lost!
The amazing book that I used for my research on holistic
healing, and helped to bring my own healing, Holistic Pain Relief, by Heather Tick, MD.
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