Fibromyalgia and Life Lessons Learned

Fibromyalgia is more than pain. It is a very misunderstood dis-ease. The cause is fear related to reaction to trauma.  The trauma can be actual physical trauma or it can be a perceived trauma caused by stress, poor nutrition, or failure to notice the body’s signals that it is overloaded.  The result is damage to the hippocampus in the brain resulting in decreased dopamine production and increased pain sensitivity and further CNS damage(lifebeyondpain.com).  The physiological response continues to reaction of the sympathetic nervous systems that causes severe anxiety reaction of fight or flight.  This results in the kidneys reuptake of phosphates to be returned to the cells to fire in all the body systems to respond until the threat is gone(St Amand,1999). 

Unfortunately for Fibromyalgics, the body does not respond by returning to normal when the threat is gone.  The cells continue to fire 24/7/365 resulting in pain and extreme fatigue.  The excess phosphates are stored in the muscles, tendons, ligaments, brain and organs resulting in the stiffness, pain, brain fog, and organ dysfunction.

Now, you should know that Fibromyalgia can be the best thing that has ever happened to you.  In yoga, suffering begins the pilgrimage of the soul’s searching for causes of the suffering and it’s appeasement(Prakash,1986).  Fibromyalgia affects every cell and emotion of your body, from the top of your head to the soles of your feet.  The body, mind and spirit connection cannot be separated.  This is a journey of a lifetime and only you can find the true path to your healing.  Healing does not come from someone doing something outside of you but the changes effected by you from within by self love and forgiveness. Love and fear cannot exist within the same moment in time(The Blessing of Fibromyalgia,

2007).

Lesson 1

The Spirit’s Chosen Path

The first step the spirit takes upon the chosen path, begins with that of pain.

A spiritual awakening to the higher regions;

known only to the few who dare to tread.

The path it is not easy, as it spirals up and down.

Each step that takes you higher may also bring you to the ground; for yet another lesson found.

It is lessons in forgiveness for self and others

that sends your pathway onward to the lofty

heights above.

And as we drop these burdens, the Light shines on

us bright, melting all our pain and showing us

the way.

Climbing ever higher, finding peace and

hope and rest.

Guided to a Love we’ve never known so that we

may shine our best.skye2008

I Let My Light Shine

There is a pain that lies within;

so deep and buried there.

It clouds my eyes and blinds me from

my love within.

It hurts my heart and head

and my energy that surrounds.

The weight of guilt so heavy,

I cannot take a step.

But I pretend that nothing’s wrong

and give my biggest smile.

While all the time I’m sinking,

I have no branch to reach.

Then one day my Angel came

and pulled me from my hole.

She taught me how to love myself

and melt my pain within.

She taught me how to lose all guilt,

it was not mine to claim.

She taught me how to bring the Light

to cleanse my body and soul.

And as the Light surrounded me,

I could no longer sink.

And as the Light grew within me,

I knew that I could fly above my past;

no longer to return.

I can rise above the path I walked

and change my path with thought.

A lesson learned to change my life

and learn how just to BE.

The past is gone; cannot return.

The future is mine to create.

My life is in this moment

and it is my choice to choose

to really smile and let my

love shine through.

For I am strong and I love me

and forgiveness keeps me safe.

It shields me as a bright white armour

that no negative can penetrate.

I live with love each moment;

for fear cannot find me there.

For love and fear cannot exist

within the same time frame.

It is my choice to shine my Light

and let my love shine through.

skye2008

Meeting Yourself With Hope

How do you find the hope of you, when all

knowledge of self is gone?

Who is this person that inhabits my body?

It has no energy to care for family or self.

It has no ability to organize the day.

There are no plans that can be made;  for you cannot follow through.

Who is this person within me, ravaged by extreme pain?

The medications hiding self behind a

wall of haze.

Is the self of ego the truest of our soul or is it

just a method of control?

The path of past and path of future

must somehow come to meet.

For here we meet ourselves and what we were meant to BE.

The hope of you lies deep within waiting

to connect.

The place that finds our truest self and leaves

the past behind.

The hope of you is in the present and

being in each moment.

The core of self to radiate healing from

within out.

A new you to BE, bringing the best this

life can offer.

Moving forward with each step and knowing

we can create our future.

Thanking the Universe each day with graditude

and love in past tense for healing that

has occurred before we ask.

This is the hope we all poccess if we

choose to use.

Knowing it is our thoughts welling up

from our truest self that heals

and gives us the best of life.skye2008

Choices

As I awake to each new day, rain, snow, or sun,

it is my choice to release my light within

and as my light shines so does the Light of God.

These lights meet and strength is gained for me

to be stronger and brighter than I could

ever hope to be.

His wish is happiness for every choice made

and we chose how to act.

So if our choice is to hide our light

because our day looks bleak,

there is no light to find God’s light

and our strength withers from within.

The path of life is a shared event

and successful only by how we

choose to shine.

It is our choice and God awaits.

Which effort do you make?

skye2008

Lesson 2

Surrounded By The Light

There is a light that’s faraway

just beyond my reach.

It’s color indescribable;

It’s brillance beyond compare.

As I strain to touch the light,

there is a voice within.

Take off your shroud

and let me shine.

I’ve been here

all the time.

My light is indescribable.

My brilliance beyond compare.

skye2008

Wellness

I slip into wellness

as a comfortable sweater.

Surrounded by it’s security

and the pleasure of it’s touch.

It engulfs me like the touch of sunlight.

Each cell of my body

straining to feel the warmth

and softness as it glides

through my body.

Holding each second in memory

to be worn again.

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Abundance of Love

With each rising of the sun,

feel the warmth of the Universe.

As the abundance of love

surrounds you, hold out your hand

and feel the touch of your Angels.

Let the smile of each that you meet

envelop you in the spirit of kindness.

Lie in the grass so green

and watch the clouds go by.

Let the earth have all your woes

and have not a care in the world.

Know that you are special

and a blessing to so many.

It is your smile that warms their hearts.

Your touch that heals their souls.

Recieve the love and share it

and love returns to you.

May you be blessed abundantly

as you journey on.

skye2008

Lesson 3

Beyond Imagination

Sitting quietly connected to this sandy beach.

I watch the energy of the earth sink

below the skyline.

Struck in awe of the beauty of this sunset.

The wonderment of how each day

begins and ends.

How does this fiery ball know

how to move across the sky?

Rising early morn

and setting in the eve

as if on cue.

How much greater in the energy

that controls this daily trek?

Beyond imagination of this tiny soul…….

How great is He that holds the sun

and all the planets in the palm of his hand?

With breath of life

He created all we have.

This ball of warmth that

penetrates our earth; our souls.

This daily reminder of the greatness

He has to give, sunlight days

and moonlight nights to

guide our path to Him.

His great colors of energy he shows

each morn and eve is but an inkling

of the beauty He radiates.

Beyond imagination of this tiny soul….

skye2008

Be A Passerby

If I travel to the seven wonders of the world,

I can see them but they are not mine to keep.

Enjoy each moment as it passes.

Be a passerby………

If all my joy is in the prism of colors

 that dance in the light,

when darkness comes my joy is gone.

Enjoy each moment as it passes.

Be a passerby……

If a rose dies when cut and a white hot coal

burns when held,

then the pleasure is only fleeting.

Enjoy each moment as it passes.

Be a passerby…….

If you build your house on the bridge

for the view,

you will never cross over.

Enjoy every view as you pass.

Be a passerby……

If all my Love depends on you,

when you leave my love goes too.

Love each one as they pass.

Be a passerby…….

skye2006