26/02/2018

10 Strategies to Try When You’re Sick of Being Sick


Ten tips for feeling better when chronic illness is taking an emotional toll...

After fifteen years of chronic illness and even after writing a book titled How to Be Sick, I still can feel sick of being sick. (When I use the word “sick,” I’m including chronic pain.) If you’re as intimately familiar as I am with sick of being sick, you know it how unpleasant it feels.

Here are ten strategies to help you through this difficult emotional time.


"Flaming June" by Frederic Leighton (1895)
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1. Start by acknowledging how you feel.

You can’t force that sick of being sick feeling to go away by denying that it’s present. In fact, denial may only intensify the feeling. It’s normal to feel this way. Being chronically ill is hard, so start by acknowledging that it’s not easy and that it’s not surprising that sometimes you’re just plain sick of being sick.

2. Cultivate self-compassion for your illness and for that sick of being sick feeling.

Self-compassion is crucial because it keeps self-blame from sneaking in. Adding blame into the mix only makes you feel worse. You’re chronically ill and that’s a fact of your life right now. It’s not your fault, unless you want to call being born your fault! Everyone lives in a body that’s susceptible to illness and injury. No blame allowed—either for being sick or for being sick of being sick. It’s natural to get fed-up at times with ongoing pain and illnes

3. If it’s helpful, have a good cry.

Crying can be cleansing. It’s a challenge to cope with this unexpected turn your life has taken. (In my latest book, I call it “a life upside down.”) It makes me cry sometimes. If crying helps, cry. Just don’t allow that cry to become a breeding ground for unhelpful thoughts, such as “Why me?” Think of a good cry as cleansing, like a cleansing bath.

4. Assess your behavior.

If you’re like me, you can feel sick of being sick even though you’re taking good care of yourself. At other times, however, that unpleasant feeling can be traced to a lack of good care on your part. This happens to me. I’ll start fighting my chronic illness by pushing my energy envelop in every way: doing too much for too long a time; not getting adequate rest or sleep, etc. So, when this sick of being sick feeling arises, stop and assess whether you’re contributing to it by not taking proper care of yourself. If that’s the case, resolve to change course immediately.

5. Contact someone in your life who won’t try to talk you out of how you feel.

When you’re sick of being sick, if you’re like me, you don’t need a pep talk. You just need someone to say, “I’m sorry things are so hard right now,” or “It’s perfectly understandable that you’re feeling this way,” or a similar comment showing that this person truly “gets” how you feel.
What should you do if you don’t have such a person in your life? Then you be that person. Why? Because you certainly “get” how you feel! I’m serious. Be a compassionate witness to that sad and painful feeling by saying to yourself in a gentle voice, “I know it’s hard, and I’m so sorry that you’re sick of being sick right now.”

6. Take refuge in the universal law of impermanence.

Nothing stays the same for long, including your moods and your physical symptoms. Remind yourself that even if you get worse before you get better, your symptoms will improve a bit at some point. It’s part of the ups and downs of chronic illness.
Moods change too, meaning that, even if you feel just as sick tomorrow, your mood may have changed such that you’re able to be more accepting of your illness and not have that sick of being sick feeling. So, be patient and wait for things to change both physically and emotionally.

7. Challenge yourself to find something pleasant going on around you.

This can take you out of exclusively focusing on this difficult emotional state. I’m fortunate to have several windows in my bedroom that give me a view of my backyard. I can almost always find something pleasant going on there, whether it’s a visiting bird or the wind through the trees. If my dog, Scout, is on the bed, I cuddle her. That’s always enjoyable.
If you can’t find something pleasant going on around you, create it. Put on a funny movie. Listen to some music. I’ve started doing jigsaw puzzles. Doing something pleasant for yourself can ease your emotional suffering until that sick of being sick feeling passes.

8. Move your body to another place.

I live in a relatively small house. I could almost call it a cottage. (Sometimes I marvel at how my husband and I raised two teenagers here without always being in each other’s way.) Because I’m mostly housebound, when I move to another place, it’s only a few steps away. And yet, it can make a big difference. Simply moving from the bedroom to the living room gives me another view of the world and another place to sit or lie down. If you’re able, try going outside. Sometimes my husband takes me for a drive. It gets my mind out of thinking about being sick.

9. Make a list of everything that’s better about your life because you’re sick.

Initially, you may not be able to come up with anything, but keep at it. See if you can list at least five things, no matter how trivial. If you’re mostly housebound, it could be that you don’t have to put up with getting stuck in traffic. It could be a new appreciation for quiet or solitude. It could even be that you have a legitimate excuse to get out of doing things you don’t want to do. Let it be a selfish list! No one need see it but you. I guarantee it will ease the pain of feeling sick of being sick.

And finally…

10. Remind yourself that it’s just a day in the life.

I stopped mentally fighting the exhaustion and the pain. As a result, I could feel the tension in my body and mind relax, and I knew I’d be okay. Yes, it was setting up to be an extremely unpleasant day in the life but it was only one day…and it would pass.
 I began silently speaking to myself with kind words: “This is a hard day. Your body is not the enemy. It’s doing the best it can. Be gentle with it while it’s in pain and remember that soon you’ll start feeling a bit better.”
So, the next time you think you can’t cope, try gently saying to yourself, “It’s just a day in the life; you’ll make it,” and see if those words help you the way they helped me on that most unpleasant of days in the life.



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If you have any strategies I didn’t cover, I hope you’ll share them in the comments section below.

By Toni Bernhard.
From: www.psychologytoday.com

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15/02/2018

New Moon Abundance Check #February / Cheque da Abundância da Lua Nova #Fevereiro

Abundance checks are a tool we can use to create more abundance in our lives.
New Moon Abundance check writing is a practice for manifesting, using the energy of the New Moon each month - They are written within 24 hours after a New Moon.
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Be GRATEFUL for all that comes into your life!!!

Be open and ALLOW!!!

This is a fantastic exercise to make a habit





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Os Cheques da  Abundância são uma ferramenta que podemos usar para criar mais abundância em nossas vidas.
Os Cheques da Abundância da Lua Nova  é uma prática para a manifestação, usando a energia da Lua Nova a cada mês - Eles são escritos no prazo de 24 horas após a Lua Nova.
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Seja grato por tudo o que vem para a sua vida !!!
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11/02/2018

Free Distance Healing #February / Cura à Distância Grátis #Fevereiro

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There is nothing more powerful than the healing power of prayer .

The human body is an energy system, imbalance on any level will ultimately manifest itself into the physical.
In its different forms, Energy Healing is defined as an aspect of alternative and complementary medicine. Energy medicine employs diverse methods to modify and manipulate the flow of energy within the body. The intent is to realign, replenish or stabilize the amount and the quality of energy within the human body.

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O corpo humano é um sistema de energia, o desequilíbrio em qualquer nível acabará por se manifestar no físico.
Nas suas diferentes formas, Energia de Cura é definida como um aspecto da medicina alternativa e complementar. Medicina de energia emprega diversos métodos para modificar e manipular o fluxo de energia dentro do corpo. A intenção é realinhar, repor ou estabilizar a quantidade e a qualidade da energia dentro do corpo humano.

Oração e Cura Energética podem se concentrar em aspectos diferentes de cura. Estes incluem físico, emocional, psicológico e até mesmo espiritual.
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