Have you ever had a Migraine Headache? These are very severe and painful headaches. Not all bad headaches are Migraine headaches. A “true” migraine headache is a vascular headache which is associated with an increase of blood flow to the scalp and brain. Often these headaches are felt on only one side of the head. They often have “prodromal” symptoms which can tell you that a migraine headache is about to get started. These precursors may include: can changes to your visual patterns, sensitivity to light, odd feelings in the neck/head, sometimes feelings in the stomach, possibly dizziness, etc. If you can “catch” a migraine headache before it starts, you can sometimes prevent them and can help to minimize the headaches that occur.
Often Migraine headaches are connected to tension headaches. To help reduce the tension headache portion, you must learn to relax the muscle groups that go into spasm and contribute to the tension headache. Regular relaxation with the awareness and skills to release tension from these muscle groups will be very helpful. The Migraine portion of your headache activity can also respond to preventive actions of relaxation training with an emphasis on redirecting blood flow away from the scalp and brain, sending the blood flow into the hands and the feet. A combination of Autogenic training (or another effective relaxation with visualization) and temperature training biofeedback can teach you how to “let go” and allow the blood to flow down the arms and legs, through dilated blood vessels, and then pulse more freely into your fingers and toes. This skill takes time and practice, but it is well worth the effort.
One client of mine was a 45 year old registered nurse who reported to me that she was getting up to 3 migraine headaches a week, when her doctor referred her to me for biofeedback training. She said that the headaches were so distracting that she was losing concentration and afraid that she might over or under medicate her patients. I taught her Autogenic training Phrases and showed her how to use temperature training biofeedback to learn how to send her blood flow more freely into her hands and her feet. She really understood the principles and began the daily practice. Her headaches pattern had existed for 25 years, but miraculously within one week she learn to control her migraine headache activity. As long as she maintained her practice of Autogenic Training, on a regular basis, she was able to prevent the headaches from returning. She was very pleased. I have seen this kind of response in other clients. Most clients report that the skills for relaxation and hand/foot warming take longer than one week. It is more common to develop this skill over time which usually takes 8-12 weeks of regular practice.
Read more about Autogenic training and temperature training biofeedback in other tip articles. If you are using these for what you believe to be Migraine Headaches, it is best to consult your physician and get examined to make certain that your headaches are not related to some other physical challenge. Please be careful and take good care of yourself.
I would recommend the guided relaxations on the CD’s: Autogenic Training Phrases and/or Stress Management for Headaches. Request a temperature trainer for biofeedback and learn how to redirect blood flow into your hands and feet as you listen to the guided relaxations on your CD’s.
L. John Mason, Ph.D. is the author of the best selling “Guide to Stress Reduction.” Since 1977, he has offered Executive Coaching and Training.
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Changing the Paradigms in your life is based on eleven basic principals. These principals work together simultaneously and are interconnected, yet separate.
You Create Your Own Reality:
-Your beliefs and subsequent feelings Create Your Reality.
-Your Beliefs Come Before Your Experiences.
-Thoughts Come Before Feelings.
-Feelings Follow Thoughts.
-All Feelings are created by Thoughts/Beliefs
The Future Creates the Present:
-You can change and improve today by changing your tomorrow
-No Pain, No Gain = To gain you must work into the pain.
-Your Future is Filled With Your Past, Until You consciously Create a New Future
-To create a New Future you need to change your beliefs.
All Time is Simultaneous
-All things and possibilities, past, present and future exist right now.
-How you feel, perceive, believe is based on the past, which created the present and which will create the future.
Your Life is a Holographic Reflection of Your Current Beliefs.
-Listen to the whispers and you won’t have to hear the screams.
-Life is constantly Showing You What You Believe and What You Need to Change to Create a different paradigm/future.
All Emotions Are Good, From Love to Hate, Sadness to Joy:
-Suppressing, depressing, or being dishonest is what makes feelings seem bad.
-Honestly Feeling and Expressing Feelings Makes One Powerful and Good.
There Are Two Ways to Get to Know Another Person
-We get to know another through Love or Through Pain. Which are you using?
We Have Many Facets to our Personality.
-Denying and suppressing these facets is what creates disorders.
-Honoring our Personality involves acknowledging, accepting and enjoying these facets.
-When we discover a facet of our personality is causing discomfort or doesn’t serve us well, we can change that facet.
Your Inner Child and Adolescent Are Real.
-All time is simultaneous, all experiences exist right now.
-The Inner Child/Adolescent wants to be loved, safe and happy.
-You are the only one who can give your Inner Child/Adolescent love, safety and happiness.
-Love, Safety and Happiness is an inside job.
An Empowering Question to ask oneself in every situation and every conversation:
-What Do I Want?
Important Tools and Attitudes:
-Enjoy Being A Beginner
-Pay Attention to Your BreathingShallow breathing slows down brain function/thought process, thus causing lack of clarity, creativity and resourceful ideas.
-Be CuriousCuriosity fosters creativity
Be Gentle With Yourself, Focus on Forgiveness and Love.
-Judgment and criticism thwarts clarity, creativity, ideas and empowerment.
-Positive reinforcement fosters clarity, creativity, ideas and empowerment.
Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD, author, international speaker and inspirational leader, empowers people to view life’s challenges as an opportunity for Personal/Professional Growth and Spiritual Awakening. http://www.drdorothy.net
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A question I often get from clients or people who call me is how to organize one of their partners, co-workers or subordinates who, they say, is “really messy.”
The first question I ask is this: Is that person truly disorganized, or is it your perception? In other words, does this person always (or almost always) meet his/her deadlines? Is s/he almost always on time? Can s/he find a document almost immediately when requested?
If you answer yes to those questions, this person IS organized, whatever the appearances. Telling him or her that s/he needs to get organized with be met with a blank stare at best, anger at worst. The only such case where it is legitimate to raise a question is, if others need access to his/her documents and calendar, and that no one understands their system except for them. An approach that I have used to great success is to say: “I admire how organized you are, however I don’t understand your system at all, and sometimes I need to access documents or your calendar when you are absent. Could we find a solution so that I can find what I need if you’re not here?” This will usually result in a brainstorming session and a solution that works for everyone.
Now, if the person is truly disorganized, the second question I ask is, Has this person said that this is a problem and that they want to change it? If the person doesn’t recognize the problem, or recognizes it but isn’t ready and willing to make a change, in the best of cases you will see cosmetic and temporary improvements; in the worst of cases, active or passive resistance. The person has to be willing and ready for it to work.
If they are, and accept your help, remember that what works for you may not work for them. For instance, if you are a highly analytical person, a clear desk, an organizer and files in drawers may work very well, but, if the other person is highly visual and creative, your system will miserably failed when applied to them. There are many resources to help you understand a different organizing and time management style, such as Organizing from the Inside Out, by Julie Morgenstern, Organizing from the Right Side of the Brain, by Lee Silber, Organizing for the Creative Person, by Lehmkuhl and Lamping, for instance.
In any case, make sure that the person actually does meet the criteria for a disorganized person, and that they are willing to make the changes. And, please, please, don’t waste your time calling an organizer to organize this person if they are not ready. I can’t tell you how many such calls I have received… Either you will talk to a good organizer, who will insist on talking directly to the person and will make sure that the person is willing and ready before accepting the job, or you will waste your money.
Copyright 2006 Karin Vibe Rheymer Stewart
Karin Vibe-Rheymer-Stewart, Ph.D., helps busy women reclaim time and achieve work/life balance through whole-life time management, in other words everything that affects your use of time. For free resources and to contact her, go to http://www.superwomanrelief.com .
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