Posted by Zo on August 28, 2001, at 15:18:13
In reply to Re: Women's Intuition » Zo, posted by SLS on August 28, 2001, at 8:23:34
We've certainly gotten better than we ought to, Pat and I. Both 20 year CFS vets, and we have lives. Don't know if you know much about CFS, but people usually don't. This is in large part because we continue to press on, and are both fortunate to work with a premier med pdoc, who *expects* our treatment to evolve over time, as it has. Meds get changed, they do their work and something else is needed. Better meds come on the market. I'd go mad if I didn't have some inner guidance on what to try and how much to take. I combine his suggestions with my intuition.
It's not hard to find these methods of checking with your body, and I if my body says No over a period of time, I don't even bother swallowing a test pill. Me, I use the breath. One way is to close your eyes, get quiet, and ask yourself, What is my Yes? Feel what that feels like. Then ask, and what is my No? Try it a few times. You may find a sinking feeling on No. A rising, glad feeling or breath for Yes. Others feel it in their overall balance; they seem to balance freely, even sway a little, with something their body wants, and feel their legs get locked and heavy on No.
This all began when some of us,*desperate* to figure out what to take, back in the '80s when AD side effects just sucked, looked for a way to use Applied Kinesiology on ourselves. Since then, it's become so much a part of my program, I can trust it for meds, doses, and follow it implicity, unless I'm sick or occasionally proved wrong. It isn't infallible, but it's more reliable, because it comes from within *you*, than someone else's guess.
Plus it saves a *lot* of money at the health food store. Who *is* that lady standing quietly at the vitamin shelves? By now, I just have to hold a bottle next to my gut, my solar plexus.
Lest you think this the thinking of a New Age Flake, I assure you. I long ago realized if I was gonna get out of this mess, I had pick the cream of every crop, scientific, psychological, spiritual whatever spoke to me. . .and be very careful about what I rejected.
Which I think is part of the healing itself. . .to become more Whole. Which suggests, doesn't it, a gathering, an inclusion.
I think this might be much harder for men to adopt, and to do. . but would happily be proved wrong about that.
Zo
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