Fibromyalgia Fatigue - Exhaustion Multiplied

Fibromyalgia fatigue can often be misunderstood. Until a correct diagnosis, the pain and exhaustion experienced may easily be put down to hypochondria or laziness produced symptoms. For the past thirty years, fibromyalgia along with fibromyalgia fatigue has been a recognized disorder, but there is still much research required prior to finding either its cause or cure. Currently, it is estimated that around four or five million people worldwide suffer from fibromyalgia; the figures for the American population standing at around two per cent. Not every sufferer will experience all symptoms however, so it has historically been difficult to diagnose and these figures may still not be truthful to the actual numbers.

Along with the pain, weakness and stiffness of joints and muscles that all fibromyalgia victims suffer, various additional problems arise to create fibromyalgia fatigue. One of the most common of these is the feeling of malaise, exhaustion, or lack of energy known as fibromyalgia fatigue. The depletion of energy can be either physical or mental, many victims experiencing problems with memory and concentration as well as flu-like symptoms just as if suffering from an all over illness with the lack of body energy. The fatigue is often the reason that many sufferers first consult a doctor, after having overridden the pain with common over the counter analgesics such as aspirin and putting it down to ill health rather than a disorder.

The various methods of controlling or eradicating fibromyalgia fatigue depend on each specific case. In some patients, balancing the exercise partaken of can remove the symptom altogether, whereas for others meditation and diet alterations may make significant difference. When diagnosed with fibromyalgia it is therefore essential to reconsider your entire lifestyle, not only to ascertain the best methods for coping with health maintenance whilst suffering a chronic disorder, but also for personal well being and general health purposes. Some of the areas needing consideration include diet, exercise, work life, medication, meditation and therapy.

If fibromyalgia fatigue is a predominant symptom, you may be better off to seek an alternative position or shorten the length of time you spend at work if this is preferable and possible. If you have any inclination to a more suitable career, it is best to get serious with your consideration, as this may help greatly in the long run. Dietary alteration can often accomplish much in the reduction of fibromyalgia fatigue, in the area of maintaining an overall health and well being, reducing problems from sleep deprivation, and improving energy levels by inclusion of adequate vitamin and mineral intake or supplement.

Sometimes, the presence of fibromyalgia fatigue can be controlled by gentle exercise. Calming both the mental and physical strains of fatigue, taking a daily walk or practicing Yoga and meditation for an hour a day can both address the two sides of the problem at once. These are often also popular methods for reducing other symptoms within fibromyalgia, as they are low cost choices available to nearly everyone and cover many of the possible problems of the disorder. To take up walking, you basically only require a suitable pair of shoes and a gradually inclining effort, whereas to participate in Yoga you will initially need to attend classes unless already experienced but can then practice at home long term without further financial burden.

Additional ways to treat fibromyalgia fatigue include meditation, medication, and therapy. Whilst meditation is freely available and assists with many aspects of the syndrome, the latter two solutions cost higher financially and may be difficult to sustain suitably for some sufferers. Doctors will often prescribe medication firstly, and then gradually help you to introduce lifestyle changes to lessen your dependency upon medication. In any case, it is advisable to seek their advice on all possible aspects of fibromyalgia maintenance inclusive of fibromyalgia fatigue.

Autor: Sara Jowers

Sara Jowers is a research writer specializing in illnesses that predominantly affect women. For more great tips and advice on coping with fibromyalgia fatigue

Added: June 4, 2009
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Healing Thyself

'None but you can be your own healer, your own physician.' Do you agree with the statement? Before proceeding to react in negative as per your conditioning, give a pause. Remember! All truths had been amazing and mind-boggling until worked upon with sincerity of will and spirit of trust. I can appreciate overshadowing impact of the modern science on most aspects of life, but the same scientists who in their enthusiasm to break the old myths are trying to research again the essence in the naturals- once forgotten, the very basics. They are searching old and tested essentials in a new light.

Body and mind though considered earlier to be different and independent parts and this analytical thinking has damaged and already brought more than fifty percent human race on the threshold of psychological disorders, are naturally correlated, congenially inter related and synergistically and holistically interdependent like two sides of the coin. But the way new science looks- one-eyed way; seeing one part as the whole thus creating a duality, is the real problem. The whole is always healthy, at ease but the duality pulls and naturally healthy people are made to live miserably ill.

Latest studies have confirmed what masters could see with insight that mind governs the body and so does the body to mind. All yogic and natural exercises simply allow you to be associated with your body, away from the mind; the mind gets a rest and makes people healthy with inner beauty of happiness.

"It's all in your head" - we have heard this expression more than once in our lives when we complained about this or that physical ailment, emotional difficulty or some stress-associated experiences.

And mind it! That the mind will never agree when we try to see this point, that it has a problem. How can the same element, same ego agree to be at fault; not in unison. This sequence of 'headiness' further leads to dreamy hallucinations, sticky impressions and a person starts seeing first and feeling later from weakness creeping into the legs to dreaded dreamy progressions of events. All this happens in the same mind that dictates and symphonizes symptoms in the body; depression is the output.

A depressed mind is simply unable to think or rationalize or it is the result of over thinking, brings us to unanswerable question mark. Is it unanswerable? No, if we try to see both body and mind as one and the role of connecting energy. Any blockage in the natural flow of energy creates situation where body is not-at-ease or dis- eased.

All inputs of thoughts, food and surrounding environment directly and subtly influence the energy mechanism of the body. Sitting for long periods in front of computers- hey! I usually take a break to go outside to inhale fresh air, couching before 'idiot box' and all sedentary styles of life create blockages. Simply go out, have few deep breathes, move your body and half your illness disappears.

Look now, the psychologists usually prescribe depressants thus further depressing the process of conscious thinking; patient remains in daze unable to think and work realistically. Sometimes some medicines seem to work as do the placebos, but it is the correction of one's thinking that works more and gets the sufferer out of is sufferings.

Placebo is as old as medical science where a physician knows that the patient has problem only in the mind and not with the body. All symptoms which body reflects sometimes are imaginary, simply psychological. This happens when the mind overpowers the body, it dictates; comes to its being; the real unmasked face and this is the main task of the mind. The masters and sages established long ago the cunning strength of the mind through innate desires like greed, ego, anger and sex but the scientists have only recently re-established the need to look into this crucial aspect.

Medicines do work, but remember it is due to the fact that our mind has accepted, believed and trusted the doctor or the medicine. When body is simply relieved of its pain either by the intake of medicine or simple rest or natural ways like a walk or yoga; the resultant stress is gone in the part that had pain. And mind starts working harmoniously. We can infer that most medicines are nothing but placebos; otherwise it should work on all the patients all the time. Then each human being should have been living in the healthy state of body and mind, but it does not happen because all minds and bodies are uniquely different. .

Now, scientists are closing in to this aspect that most of the symptoms except in trauma and serious infection take root in mind. Mind is the main culprit while body just responds unnaturally.

To understand the nature of body and enjoying the maximum of the life through this body, the learned sages have advised three things:
- Sensible food,
- Sensible body movements (exercise) and
- Sensible thoughts.

Today every individual is continuously under the systematic high pressure of media blitzkrieg, burdened with all senseless junk food, remaining comforted for hours before idiot box and allowing drifting and impure matters to take over the command of mind- the later being the most crucial from healing angle.

The plethora of today's problems like stress and tension in the Belly and body; regular pain of knees, shoulders, back and neck, sleeplessness, premature aging, frigidity and impotency, heart ailments, feeling of hopelessness, being unworthy and incapable, hypochondria and alike are nothing but life style problems. These cannot be classified as diseases. It is an established fact now that most of these are due to long hours of sittings on chair before the computer or sofa watching the TV, munching whatever one can catch hold off without realizing the need and requirement of the body and our thought process is being controlled, conditioned and hypnotized to buy one or the other product.

Ironically, you all know this. You have read all this, watched on TV screen umpteen times, yet your lazy sleep- not literal sleep but your being doing everything unconsciously as if drugged, has done harm to you. I read about a Japanese doctor who confessed, "What people earn from the age of thirty- five to fifty-five, they give almost half of their earnings to doctors between the age of fifty-five to seventy-five or more."

Now try to see and watch but watch closely, candidly your relentless running around; not caring for the medium called the body, the real tool for prime twenty years is going to land you into a bigger gully where pain of visiting doctors and staying in hospitals causing equal pain and anguish to nears and dears ones. Your presence on this planet earth is till your body serves you healthily.

As regards the mind, the head we have to be clearly careful and watchful as to what kind of thoughts and words and pictures need to be fed to it. What is needed is the true positivism; and only harmonious thoughts can be healing to body and mind. We have to understand deeply that both body and mind work coherently and if one goes out of order another just follows. So the good and healthy food that doesn't burden or causes extensive and painful expansion of the stomach and at least half an hour to one hour of exercise with relatively clear vision of understanding of body, mind and soul as one medium can not only heal you of minor and major illnesses but will shower in an era of pleasant, melodious and healthy living.

All the best! Heal thyself from within.

Autor: Grover Narendra

Dr. Grover Narendra is writer, author and motivational speaker on Happiness. His book Only Better Parents have Best Child was published in 2005. http://www.lifeispassion.com

Added: June 3, 2009
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Discover the Secrets of Method Acting - Part 3

Sense Memory is the most important part of Method Acting.

Sense Memory
Sense memory is re-living sensations that were experienced through the five senses. Strasberg stressed the term re-living and not just remembering. The difference lies between knowing something and truly recreating it. That difference is substantiated by psychology.

You have heard of psychosomatic illnesses and hypochondria. The mind can manifest symptoms and responses from simply believing the body is sick. This true even if the body is not sick. Sense memory exercises are designed to train you to be able to elicit a response from your body by concentrating on stimuli associated with an experience.

Sense memory is using your memory of real objects to create sensory objects on stage. You need a great deal on concentration to create a sensory object. When you can create a sensory object, you can invoke a "real" response. You will be re-living a sensory experience and not demonstrating an experience. From this stimulus that you know isn't real, suddenly all the other false things become real and you start behaving truthfully. The audience will believe the performance is real because the actor believes it is real. Sense memory creates great truth performance, which is the actors "ability to experience".

For example, do you know the smell of movie theatre popcorn? When you think of it, do you recall the last movie you saw in the theatre? Does the memory of the smell help trigger other memories? By concentration on the smell, can you recall other aspects of your trip to the theatre? Does concentrating on the smell remind you of the sights and sounds of the theatre? Do the sense memories you recall help you remember the movie, the date and other details? You have recalled the sense memory of the smell of popcorn to re-live the experience of going to the movies.

Smell is the sense most closely associated with memory. It has been shown that smell helps triggers memory recall. Smells become associated with vivid memories.

You must concentrate on the sensory object and it's stimuli. Do not concentrate on trying to elicit an emotion. Through practice you will learn what sensory objects produce the desired emotional response. Then you must simple devote your focus to produce the sensory object without regard for the emotion. The emotional response will follow naturally.

Again, the choice of the sensory object for a scene is up to you. Ideally, you should choose an object that you have practiced with and you know will provide the appropiate emotional response. If possible, make your choice relevant to the scene as well. The more sensory objects you have practiced, and the more scenes you work, the more skilled you will become. Dozens of scenes are waiting for you to use at the website below. You can download them instantly.

Autor: Neils Bohr

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Added: June 1, 2009
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