| I cured fibromyalgia within my own body. The | | | | of my most damaged areas. This is where I |
| way I did it was almost 100% natural and holistic, | | | | would rub, with my fingers or a tennis ball or a |
| concentrating on stretching, massage, muscle and | | | | massage tool, an area that was sending referred |
| mind relaxation, and paying attention to my | | | | pain to wherever I was having the most pain. |
| emotions. | | | | There is a wonderful book that teaches this called |
| The one thing I did that was not 'natural' was I | | | | The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook by Clair |
| took Guaifenesin for about a year. Guaifenesin is a | | | | Davies. |
| over-the-counter, safe medication. You can learn | | | | I also started getting weekly massages - first |
| more about it with a free ebooklet if you sign up | | | | regular, relaxing massages, and then when I was |
| for my mailing list on my website. | | | | ready I moved to deep-tissue massage. I felt the |
| Stretching to cure fibromyalgia: I stretched a lot - | | | | deep tissue massage was phenomenal at healing |
| I still do stretch a lot. I love the way my body | | | | fibromyalgia. It got new blood to every single |
| feels so free and open after stretching. It wasn't | | | | tissue and cleared out old, stagnant blood and |
| always that way though. When I first started | | | | stress chemicals and trigger points. It hurt. But it |
| stretching it did not feel good most of the time. I | | | | was worth it. |
| had so many layers of scar tissue and stress | | | | Relaxation and emotional 'sculpting' to cure |
| chemical buildup in my body that stretching felt | | | | fibromyalgia: This was very, very important to |
| difficult and useless and even painful - it felt like I | | | | me. I believe fibro (and many other diseases) are |
| was trying to stretch a brick wall. I developed a | | | | caused by 'negative' emotions like anger, |
| few stretches that did feel good and got me past | | | | frustration, anxiety, and fear. Fear and anxiety |
| this period and now when I stretch a new area | | | | cause tension and muscle bracing and clenching, |
| and it feels like this I know that I have hit an area | | | | which indirectly causes fibromyalgia and many |
| still full of scar tissue and stress chemicals and this | | | | other diseases. So, eventually, with everything |
| is a good area to go slow with (but definitely | | | | else I was doing, I realized that unless I could 'get |
| keep at it!) | | | | happy', I was causing fibromyalgia as fast as I |
| Massage to cure fibromyalgia: I did trigger point | | | | was curing it. |
| self-massage in the early days to get past some | | | | |