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Spiritual Implications of Physical Discomfort: Fibromyalgia is a puzzling physical problem that commonly causes chronic pain, fatique and sleep disturbances. The symptoms can be so severe as to interfere with daily life.

Treatments for fibro vary from western medicine approaches to alternative health applications and can be researched at length. However, this particular health care article approaches fibro from the spiritual perspective. Also read: Fibro and Sleep Problems

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© 2006, Neva J Howell, All Rights Reserved, Updated 2007
Question on spiritual healing: I have had fibromyalgia for almost ten years and have been getting seriously worse. I have graduated to consros condritis (I believe the writer was referring to chondritis, a condition where cartilage joint surface becomes inflamed or costochondritis, an inflammation that occurs in the upper ribs area) and rynauds. I can't work any more and I hate this.

I want my life back. I have traced bad attacks to cycles of suns high solar storms. The pain leaves me weeping and numb.

Also, I seem to be very susceptible to weather pressures and people with negative energy, which I try to block or avoid. Do you have any ideas on directions I might take?

Healing facilitation response: The very journey of your spiritual self is part of the reason that fibromyalgia is a challenge. I've found that the most spiritually sensitive are also the most physically challenged, until they learn or are taught to balance the energies.

Fibro is a signal that higher energies are meeting cellular resistance. I still struggle with fibro, even though my pain is greatly diminished from what it was in 1988. The times I struggle are directly related to either personal chaos or planetary chaos (sun flares are a form of planetary chaos, as are tragedies such as Tsunami, 9/11 and Katrina).

Spiritual and practical tools that have helped me balance times of planetary chaos include breath, sound, and dreamtime.

Breathwork is vital for any type of healing, including fibromyalgia. When I remember to breathe with intent I become more clear, more balanced and less at the whim of chaotic influences.

Whether that intent of breath is focused on balancing, clearing congestion that is causing pain, or the breathing in of clarity, the body responds to breath. Yet, full and focused breathing is the thing we close down on when panicked, in pain, or in sadness.

If you check yourself when the pain is worst, you will probably find that your breathing is shallow and sharp. Remember to use your breath with intent.

Sound is also a powerful tool. From chanting to toning until a perfect vibration comes thru that balances or clears or does whatever is needed, to primal screaming in a safe place, sound with intent is healing.

Dreamwork for Healing Fibro

Dreamtime is another tool we forget to engage. I ask almost every night for dreamtime help. I specifically ask for physical healing, spiritual guidance, spiritual teachers, and etheric healers. On other nights, I volunteer to go out and work with others such as yourself.

A powerful way to enlist dreamtime help for fibro is to specifically ask for healing at a dna level. Spend some time meditating before going to sleep, visualizing your dna structure aligning itself for proper function through all your muscles and tissues. Even if you don't know what that looks like, just visualize muscles relaxing, releasing toxins, performing normal contraction and expansion, etc. Also, ask for healing facilitators to come help with healing at a cellular level and be specific.

Fibro Pain Management Tips:

Below are some of the things that have helped me manage my own fibro pain and, consequently, have also improved the degree of good sleep I get each night and the amount of energy I have available each day. Here is what I do (or have done in the past) for successful management of fibro pain:

Mangosteen Juice - a terrific anti-inflammatory rule out potential drug interactions
Organic, raw kombucha
Natural, non-addictive homeopathic and herbal sedatives
MSM - I take 2,000 miligrams a day with 1,000 ester-c when pain flares
Salmon Oil Gelcaps - another excellent anti-inflammatory
Good massage, as often as I can get it
Reiki or other kinds of alternative healing
Inner child healing work More on Inner Child Healing
Reflexology - amazingly effective for all types of pain
Colloidial Minerals, both taken internally and applied to muscles topically.
Magnesium - Too much magnesium is as harmful as too little. I rarely exceed dosage instructions.
Balancing the ph levels - One way to balance ph levels is to eat more alkaline-rich foods. Another is by drinking alakaline water or using an additive like body alkalizer, that turns water alkaline. Maintaining an alkaline ph is vital for good health, period, not just for fibro. more information on balancing ph levels

Other anti-inflammatories I have used: Turmeric, Traumeel, Aleve. (NSAIDS are a last resort and I would never take them longterm.)

Natural sleep aids I have used: Formula 303, Nelson's Sleep Aid, Calms Forte, Natural Calm Magnesium.

Dealing with those who choose negative response: Regarding people operating from and feeding off negative energy, avoiding them or blocking their energies all the time are only temporary solutions.

What you will learn to do is allow those energies to meet the Divine Godforce energy flowing thru you and when that happens, there will be no further need to block or avoid. It will occur if you are willing to learn what cannot be taught in words. It is a shift in consciousness that will allow you to become aware of yourself as a clear, open vessel thru which unconditional love flows outward. Nothing can drain that; nothing negative can long endure in the presence of that.

If a negative energy effects us, it is because of a resonant negativity within ourselves that needs to be cleared or it is because we have allowed ourselves to either be cut off from God or steeped in fear. When I say this to my partners in healing, sometimes I encounter angry responses. For example, if someone is in an abusive situation, it's hard for them to believe they resonate with that. And it's hard for me to see how they could avoid resonation.

Abuse sets a pattern of belief, at a cellular level. It's in the cells. Our body has a physiological response to being violated and that is cellular. The body response becomes part of the emotional and mental response and it often takes years of self-healing to change those patterns.

The truth is that something within us draws our experience, always.

We may not be abusers or actively want abuse but if we are unconscious of the way belief systems were set in us early on by abuse, we function at levels of fear, protection, and confusion. The vibration, or sound waves of energy, that emanate from us are from that bandwidth so it tends to affirm what we walk each day in fear of encountering.

Additionally, if we allow ourselves to slip into any kind of vibration that is within the same bandwidth with abuse (this can include judgment, bitterness, unresolved anger, fear, etc.), we become far more attractive to potential abusers, vibrationally speaking. A wild animal can sense fear. The abuser is a wild animal, truly.

If we forget what flows thru us, we begin allowing our personal energy to be drained by negative people and events. If we wander into fear and out of love, we drain our own personal energy trying to protect or guard ourselves and are also cut off from source, a more stressful situation than the former.

Weather and fibromyalgia, the connection from a spiritual perspective:

The weather is more difficult a fibro factor to talk about, since it is a representation of not just one person's energy but mass consciousness, yet, the same principal applies:

When we are out of the way, and letting God flow thru us, there is a stillpoint where appearances of chaos and imbalance do not shake our center. I have been in that stillpoint at various times and though I have not mastered living there, I offer the vibration of that truth to assist you in finding your own stillpoint of being.

I know it feels as if you don't have your life, as if it is something you must get back. The truth is that you are a spiritual warrior full of life, who is being mightily trained and challenged. It is all good.

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If you have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, chronic fatique syndrome or Epstein-Barr Syndrome and are under a doctor's care, please check with your chosen healthcare practitioner before adding new supplements to your existing health care regimen.