Hello it's Estelle here again.
And welcome to Module 1 of
Meditation for Pain Relief.
Now I wanted to talk to you today
about pain and pain
symptoms.
Where did they come from.
How do they manifest in
our lives and also
what can we do about them.
And of course this is one method
that I've used for the
last twelve years or actually I came
up with twelve years ago and
it's worked for me so that
I want to share it with you.
Now one thing about pain
is that I think you'll agree
with me that a lot of pain is
actually caused by stress
and our bodies response to stress.
So why is that.
Why do we push ourselves so hard.
Why do we put ourselves through
stress.
Well it just seems to be one of the
symptoms of modern living I think.
There is always so much more to do.
We've got all these labour saving
devices and everything that's meant
to make our lives easier.
And yet we just
tend to get busier and busier
and have less time for ourselves
less time for relaxation
and less time to actually take some
self care and relieve
the stress.
So one of the things that I would
contend for you to do immediately
if you're suffering from pain
symptoms and especially if you're
suffering from chronic pain symptoms
is to start to destress
and be aware or become aware
of where those areas in your life
that are causing you undue stress.
Okay so once we do that
we can start to say what's something
that I can do instead
of stressing.
So what I want to talk to you about
is giving yourself permission
to let go of some stress
in your life.
Make a list and work out which
things are not negotiable in your
life in terms of you know you
absolutely have to do them.
Okay. So write down 20 things
in your life that you can
that you feel that you have to do.
And then I want you to go through a
process of eliminating 5
percent 10 percent
25 percent of those things.
Now once we decide that we're going
to eliminate some at least some
of the stresses out of our lives -
how do we do that?
One method that I use
whenever I've got a long list of
things that I need to prioritize
certain things in that list is
I use a process of elimination.
So say I've got 20 things on my list
and honestly I really don't want to
be doing 20 things.
It's putting a lot of burden on my
mind, on my body
as well. Especially some of those
things are going to be physical
tasks to do and
you know that there's also the
stress involved in
realizing that I don't have enough
time to do those 20 things in a day.
So let's let go of some of those
things. Now this is a really good
technique that you can use for other
areas of your life where you need to
eliminate certain things off a list
of a To Do list or even
just to reprioritize and
shift things off to maybe the next
day.
So you take the first
two things and you say Okay which
one of these two tasks number
one and number two is the most
important?
Okay. So you've decided you put a
cross next to the most important
one. Then you take that first
item and you compare it to the third
item and you did the same thing.
Which of these two things is more
important and put a cross next to
that one and then you take the first
item and the fourth item and you
do that again.
So you're comparing the first item
with everything else on the list.
And you know however long that list
is.
OK. So you finish that list
you go back up then to the top of
the list and you start with
item 2 - compare item two
with item 3 and put a cross
next to which one is the most
important.
And so on. So you go through that
list and compare everything else on
the list with item 2.
And then you come up to the top of
the list and you start with item 3.
Now you've already done item 1 and
item 2 and compared that against
everything else.
So you know that you can just keep
moving down that list.
So you know it might take a while,
if you've got 20 things on your list
it might take a long time if you've
got 50.
So you know this is an indication
that you have got too many things on
your list anyway.
Just go through the list,
however many you've got there,
prioritize.
At the end of the process you count
up the number of crosses and
you then you reverse.
You organize them
in the reverse order of the
most crosses down to the least
and however many items that you've
decided that you're going to knock
off your list or move on to
the next day then that's what you
do. So if you've got 15 items
that you do want to keep in your
daily task list then you know
which ones are the most important
for you. So that's just a little
method that you can do to start to
destress straight away.
Now once you decide that
you have prioritized
your task list, you've
decided that you're going to give
yourself (I hope one of those things
on that task list is some self
care for yourself today or
whatever day that you're doing this)
and that's actually
giving your subconscious mind a very
powerful message that you are
prioritizing you.
And the thing about the subconscious
mind is that it holds
and you may not know this, it holds
a blueprint for your perfect
health.
It has a picture of you in
perfect health and you can actually
tap into that image
of you in perfect health
when we're using a meditation later
on. I'm going to teach you how to do
that in further modules,
but I want you to remember
that first step -
destress second step - start
doing things towards getting rid
of more stress in your life.
And third step is we start to
connect to the subconscious mind
and actually start to change
the way that we view our tasks,
the stresses in our lives and
the importance of our self care.
So in module 2 I'm going to talk
to you about the two types of stress
that the human body puts itself
through. Or as humans we put
ourselves through and what
we can do about that.
So until then destress,
make that list and
make sure you come along to the
Facebook group and actually discuss
what you've found out when you went
through that list. Did it surprise
you the things that you found out
were most important or not?
You know what.
What was what's going on there.
I'd love to hear from you.
Okay see you in Module Two.