“A Sweet Retreat”: Meditating While Having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – A Meditator Returns
I learned to meditate in 2007 and developed CFS in 2011. In the three years in between, I participated in some 20 retreats of 2 to 14 days in length. Yes, meditation is addictive (in the best way possible). Yet since I became sick, I’ve mostly discarded...
Telomeres, Wandering Minds, and Creating Cellular Health: the Last Best Cure V
(A continuing series of blogs on “The Last Best Cure”; one woman’s attempt to find joy and improve her health while battling an autoimmune disorder.) “The good news is that we are not our thoughts.” – Clifford Saron, PhD, Center for Mind and...
The Cortisol, PEM and Stress Management Link in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Stress management skills, cortisol awakening response, and post-exertional malaise in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Daniel L. Hall a,∗, Emily G. Lattie a, Michael H. Antonia, Mary Ann Fletcherb, Sara Czajac, Dolores Perdomoc, Nancy G. Klimasb. Psychoneuroendocrinology...
Challenging Loss in Chronic Illness: An Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patient Finds Grace in Small Things
(As we’ve seen in past blogs and as we’ll see with Donna in the Last Best Cure blog series, mindfulness practices – such as the gratitude practices Sue writes about below, if engaged in regularly – can bring benefits both to the quality of life...
“I Think I Have a Meditation Disability”: The Last Best Cure #IV
“I think I have a meditation disability” Donna Jackson Nakazawa Donna’s going to start her year of using mind/body techniques and acupuncture to return joy to her life (and hopefully improve her health) with an 8-week mindfulness-based-stress-reduction (MBSR) course....Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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