HEADACHES
ARC - 3/14/2014
I was in my 20s when a friend told me she was experiencing a migraine headache. She said the pain was unbearable. I commiserated with her, but really had no clue. I had, of course, experienced a headache now and then, but nothing to what she was describing.
I remembered looking at the bathroom mirror and trying to visualize the vise she described…the picture in my head became so real that I actually started to have a horrible vise like headache. I quickly thought of pleasant thoughts and `filed the memory away’ for truly I knew that the experience was beneficial in growing wisdom. Intuitively I grasped that if I could `picture one’ and it would appear, I could `picture the opposite’ and make it disappear. And sure enough, throughout many years, accomplished this.
Epiphanies became abundant when a good neighborhood friend who a was teacher introduced me to Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz wherein he in lay terms described the power of mind-guidance through imagery. This book revolutionized my life. The premise is easy to understand: we have a conscious and subconscious mind. It’s analogous to a car: outside and inside. We `see’ the outside of the car going, but it is the `inside’ that is making it run. So an individual is responding to their unconscious mind versus conscious. When we go to a doctor and describe our symptoms, norm is for x-rays or blood tests: what’s going on `inside’.
Obviously headaches can have medical root: prolonged chronic need prescription prescribed tests.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headache
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension_headache
https://www.excedrin.com/headache-center/types-of-headaches-and-causes-of-headaches.shtml?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=headache&utm_campaign=2013_non_branded_excedrin_extra_strength&WT.srch=1&WT.mc_id=2013_non_branded_excedrin_extra_strength_paidsearch_google-headache
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(psychological)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migraine_Disability_Assessment_Test
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analgesics
But headaches can also be subconscious mind `telling’ us something is wrong `in our head’ but it is not physical. The something wrong is the way our mind is thinking about or handling a problem.
There is a famous concept in psychology: approach/avoid conflict.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approach-avoidance_conflict
Someone, for example, may develop a stammer - avoiding speaking.
http://www.stammering.org/approach-avoidance.html
A headache can be an avoidance `factor’ for a wife, afraid of pregnancy, avoids conjugal relations.
A headache can be an avoidance `factor’ for a parent who is tired from a day working: upon coming home wants to avoid playing with a child.
A headache can be an avoidance `factor’ for a student unprepared for a test.
A headache can be an avoidance `factor’ for a `sinner’ unable to face up to transgressions.
In other words, the headache, can be like an internal thermostat telling us `something is going wrong’ - but it may or may not be physical.
Throughout the years in academic and experiential studies, I cultivated a theory that examines `seven need areas of our lives’.
When one or more of these areas are neglected, the result can be physical or mental strain and/or both.
I named them the SEVEN SALIENTS.
By focusing on them - that is: picturing them, you can `uncover’ what area of your life you might need help in; and then, you can use the same miracle process of `planting the picture seeds’ to solve the problem. I am a firm believer in prayer; one that I especially honor the Serenity One:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference.+++
