True Connection
True connection can exist within any relationship.
Friend, family, lover, spouse, children, acquaintance.
This is when the richness of connection
warms and opens heart and soul.
May you nurture true connection, đź’—Bindu
Are You Asking the Right Questions?
I was in the library the other day and came across a book entitled “Change Your Questions, Change Your Life”.  It reminded me of another book entitled, “The Secret Code of Success” by Noah St John that I read with a similar theme of considering what questions you ask and how changing the questions you ask can impact your life.
The essence of both books suggests that if you ask negative questions in your inner dialogue, you will get negative answers and negative results. Here are some examples:
- Why am I always in pain?
- Why can’t I find a solution to relieve my pain?
- Why do I always screw up?
- Why doesn’t anyone like me?
- What is wrong with me?
You get the idea. If you ask these question, you will get these kind of answers to those questions:
- I am always in pain because I have fibromyalgia.
- There is no solution to fibromyalgia, there is no cure, so I will have to live with this for the rest of my life.
- The third question will bring to mind all the mistakes you have made.
- The fourth question will bring up all the things that you think people don’t like about you.
- The Fifth question will bring to mind all the things that you think are wrong with you.
This first list of questions will hold you back in the status quo and work against improving your health.
Consider these questions instead:
- How can I reduce or remove my pain?
- How can I recover from fibromyalgia? Or “How can I rebuild my health? “
- What have I accomplished today?
- Why do people like me?
- What are my best qualities?
- What am I grateful for?
Noah St John also suggests the following:
- Why is it so easy to reduce the pain in my body?
- Why is it so easy to heal from fibromyalgia?
- Why is it so easy for me to be competent and accomplished?
- Why is it so easy for people to love and appreciate myself?
- Why is it so easy to be an awesome person?
My Experience with this
Years ago, when my fibromyalgia was really bad, I often asked the questions, Why do I hurt so much? Why can’t I heal myself?   I was working with a wellness coach that suggested that for a full month focus on these statements and questions:
- My body is healing.
- How is my body healing?
- What does my body need to heal?
- What can I do to rebuild my health?
- Why is it so easy to recover from fibromyalgia?
In the beginning, it felt like a lie. But for the whole month, I stuck with my phrases even though it felt wrong and untrue. By the end of the month, I began to believe that I could heal my body and that it was healing.
This was a turning point in my journey with fibromyalgia. I began seeing and receiving insights and signs and information that led me to truly improving my health. I had to be open to the insights, signs, and information that I received, and put them into action. Otherwise, I would not have improved.
Can you open your mind to the possibility that you can improve your health?
The medical community has declared that there is no cure for fibromyalgia. That is true.
But in my experience, there is a lot we can do to improve our health. I am living proof. I have changed from being in excruciating pain all the time. And so fatigued, I could barely function. I hated my life and often wished I could die. I would lay in my bed in absolute torture with physical, mental and emotional torment. I hated waking up in the morning because I didn’t want to face another day.
The song, “Sleep is the only Freedom that she Knows” was my theme song. At least I had a few hours of sleep to get away from the torture that I lived every day.
Most of my symptoms are greatly improved and some non-existent.
Some of the symptoms have completely left, like irritable bladder, brain fog, insomnia, restless legs. Some of the symptoms are mild, like pain and fatigue.
I used to have lots of skin irritation, burning, and itching. That is mostly gone and only flares up on rare occasions.
Even as I write this, I know that I have forgotten many of the symptoms that were part of my daily experience. They are even gone from my memory.
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Yet, I am not completely free from fibromyalgia.
My main symptom now is IBS. When my intestines function properly, I feel great. When they flare up, other symptoms flare up. I experience increased pain, my mind and emotions get more negative, I am fatigued. I am still limited by this.Â
The good news is that this is progressively healing as well. I now understand what flares my IBS up and have an established protocol to heal it. The healing process has its ups and downs. But the ups are more frequent and long lasting, and the downs are not as bad, and I know what I need to get them back on track.Â
I know it is on its way out and looking forward to that.
Play around with some of these ideas that I am sharing with you.
See if they resonate with you. I wish for you relief from the ongoing fibromyalgia symptoms.
May you improve your health and reclaim your life. ❤BinduÂ
Love
Remember . . .
Include yourself in those that you love.
It is love that allows you to walk away from a hostile situation.
It is love that allow you to set healthy boundaries.
It is love that enables you to create time for your own self care.
It is love for you to speak kindly of and to yourself.
You can do all of this and not limit, put conditions on or withhold your love.
đź’—Bindu
The Power of Kindness on You and the World
Our societal norm has become “me first”
The type of society we live in has become known as “me first”. We’re taught early on to look out for ourselves first, and many do that. We’re self-focused, self-possessed and find it difficult to see beyond ourselves at those around us. We often don’t see how our actions affect others.
But our actions do affect others, sometimes in large ways and sometimes in small ways that create a wave of actions. The Butterfly Effect in Chaos Theory states that on tiny event in one area of the globe can have a substantial effect somewhere else. The same is true with small acts of kindness.
Every time kindness is performed it creates a ripple effect.
It spreads from person to person, continuing endlessly. You could say kindness is contagious, like a disease in which the outcome is beautiful.
Kindness keeps us from being short tempered with others when we’re stressed and frustrated. It helps people realize we’re all on the same team.
Jamil Zaki, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab conducted a series of studies observing how witnessing kindness inspires kindness, saying it causes it to spread like a virus.
Zaki says, “We find that people imitate not only the particulars of positive actions, but also the spirit underlying them. This implies is that kindness itself is contagious, and that that it can cascade across people, taking on new forms along the way.”Â
When we were to look at how important an act of kindness can help someone in need, we realize how it can empower both ourselves and others.
Today, we are bombarded with social media and news media that focuses on the negative interactions that affect us. It’s seen in the victims of bullying, of abuse, and of those who abuse their power. Even our entertainment is often riddled with abusive comments and negative actions.
Helping the disabled person who is struggling to gather items out their reach can change the course of their day. By giving a hungry person something to eat or helping a homeless person find shelter can change their outlook on life. Helping an elderly neighbor carry in groceries, mow their yard or just check on them occasionally, can help them feel less lonely. If you say thank you, please, and hello to others who are serving you, you brighten their day.
If you perform even the smallest act of kindness, you have the potential to change the course of persons life, even if only for a short period of time.
But kindness not only effects the one you are performing it for. It has a positive effect on you as well.
- When you are kind to someone, your body gets a surge in serotonin, feel-good endorphins and oxytocin, all hormones that promote a natural high.
- These hormones reduce pain and lower bread pressure, helping you feel relaxed and loved.
- The person you are kind to will experience this surge in hormones too. And anyone who witnesses the act of kindness will feel the same feel-good effects.
Kindness fuels curiosity to know each other better. It helps us hear each other without putting up any pretenses. It’s considering other people and what they experience and their concerns and how you can make their lives easier.
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Kindness is contagious.
It ripples and grows, effecting the unsuspecting and the observing. One act of kindness can change thousands of lives.
In the words of Maya Angelou, “People will forget what you did, they will forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
Simple acts of kindness can contribute to rebuilding our health.
Simple acts of kindness remind us that we have something to offer others and the world. When we offer kindness to another, we feel that kindness within our own heart, which helps to heal any hurt that we carry within. The ripple effect not only impacts others, but our own heart.Â
Contemplation for this week:
Become more aware of the balance of selfishness and kindness in your world. What brings selfishness into your world? What brings kindness into your world? What can you do to tip the balance toward the kindness side? Remember to include yourself in your acts of kindness!
May kindness fill your heart, mind and soul, đź’•Bindu
12 Steps to Self Care
Remember . . .
When you take care of yourself you will have more to offer others.
When you love yourself, you will more readily accept love from others.
It is not selfish to take care of yourself, it is an act of self love.
Every time you treat yourself with love and kindness,
it seeds the collective consciousness with love and kindness.
đź’—Bindu
I See You . . .
Remember . . .
You are not your fibromyalgia.
You are not your anxiety.
You are not your challenges.
You are a beloved child of God
You are beautiful in His eyes.
You are Blessed. You are Loved!
đź’—Bindu
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