You Can Self Heal – Self Healing begins in the mind

You Can Self Heal – Recovery is a state of mind

Many health professionals will tell you that “mind-state” is often 50% of the reason why people undergo an effective recovery. This may partly explain the “placebo-effect” where medication with no active ingredients successfully cures people. In some cases placebos can be very effective, within 5-10% of the performance levels of established medications.

There are now also “placebo” surgeries where no real corrective action takes place, just a minor operation. The patient is put to sleep, the troubled area is “operated on” nothing is removed or added and all is put back in place as it was before. Amazingly the result is that the patient often gets better (on the basis that the surgery has gone well).

Yes it may sound crazy, but it often works.

This is one more example of the immense power of the human mind and body to fix itself, once focused on the task. Self Healing is a powerful force for good that you need to mobilize to assist you in your recovery. In truth, it is quite difficult to assist anyone who expects recovery to just happen, or that someone else can or will do it all for them.

Thus the first step in any recovery process is to ensure that you really are in the best mind-state to get well, and that you take full responsibility for your own health. Your own belief system is a very important part of this process.

A good mind-set is: “I will get well!”

or  “I want my life back”

Brain exercises for Mental Healing or, why I am just crazy about neuro-plasticity? For most people, brain capacity is not a fixed entity but something that can be encouraged or developed. This process is dependent on something called neuroplasticity.

This is about the flexibility of the mind – its ability to learn and retain new ideas, activities or processes. It links to extending the minds` capacity for learning and creativity. For the process to work, the brain needs a proper supply of nutrients and blood/oxygen. It follows that physical activity will assist the process.

As an approximate guide the younger you are the better the neuroplasticity tends to be. Or if you prefer, children tend to adapt more quickly to new ideas. The older generations will tend to find new ideas and processes harder to adapt to.

Once you start the exercise program for the brain, you may experience some fatigue. This can be a good sign and is quite a normal reaction. In this situation: Just rest- it will be fine. If it is the case that a small conscious effort to exercise your brain does cause you to be tired, then clearly there is opportunity for improvement here.

I have first hand experience of the process, now in the sixth year of cognitive rebuilding. For further information there is a training/workshop now in evaluation

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Neuroscience – Achieving Peak Performance | Anthony Wright Self Managed Recovery

Why are psychological issues harder to fix?

Or Why is Mental Healing often harder to achieve?

In one sense all injuries have a psychological element. It`s not unusual for confidence or self-esteem to be reduced as a consequence of injury. Any reduction in physical activity during a recovery period from illness or surgery may also affect the mind state.

It is a strange society. If someone has a broken arm or leg it is usually clear to all that they may have issues and most people will make allowances for the injury or disability. However where the injury is hidden or unknown the situation can be much more complex.

Patients who are experiencing even mild mental health issues, and/or depression, may have as many challenges as any patient with broken bones, however, in many key areas they are significantly disadvantaged.

The injury is not so easy to spot, so fewer allowances are made. The very nature of the mental issue may push away the supporting family and friends that could assist, who may now no longer want their company. The self Healing process does require support of friends/family.

The time-line of the problem is much greater. With the broken limbs, perhaps 80 percent of cases, there is a predictable repair path. In this respect mental healing is a bigger challenge and might take months or even years.

The Self Healing process for Mental Healing- needs a long term plan

If the recovery requirement is going to extend out over this time frame then my suggestion is that you need an on-going plan, something that allows the mind and body to repair. The courses outline day-to-day activity required to reinforce recovery.

Is this a “positive thinking” course?

While it is important to remain positive during challenging situations that you may experience post operations, or illness, the program here offers much more. Brain fatigue listed below is very common in injury survivors, but it will undermine the mental healing process.

These courses are more to do with the ongoing actions both physical and mental that are required to assist the body and mind to recover.

Most usefully an action plan for mind and body is outlined for ongoing self healing and improvement.

Brain fatigue – What is it and what can you do?

Brain fatigue is probably the least understood and most under diagnosed condition in the medical library. The most extreme examples of brain fatigue tend to occur for head injury or stroke survivors. But there are a vast range of other conditions, from addiction recovery to long-term depression that show similar symptoms.

What is it?

When the human body is tired, there are perhaps 101 ways that we could measure the tiredness. Typical results might include breathlessness, low blood sugar, hunger, dehydration; all of which can be easily measured. In this sense, brain fatigue is very different. There is no certain way to measure the fatigue. The patient may look, sound and act exhausted, but there will be no easily measurable way to verify it. Brain fatigue occurs when the thinking or cognitive process is overloaded for an extended period. So Brain fatigue is a form of “extended cognitive overload” and is often confused with depression as outwardly the symptoms appear similar. The main difference is that the fatigue condition tends to be temporary, while depression may be on-going. Head injury or stroke survivors are most disadvantaged in this regard because they often have to deploy extended cognitive resources to complete the simplest of tasks. In other words, they have to work harder to do simple things.

Early stage brain fatigue will create in the patient sensations of tiredness and frustration and sometimes, depression. It is often quite hard to tell conventional depression from brain fatigue. Push beyond this point and frustration will become anger with very poor temperamental control. If the patient still pushes against the fatigue, there would be further consequences. It is actually possible for body co-ordination to break down. Initially the patient would become clumsy, eventually coordinated movement would become nearly impossible. At this point the mood would be very poor.

Mental Healing for Brain Fatigue -What can you do?

The simple answer is: STOP NOW before you get hurt, because you will!

The mindfulness process of meditation outlined elsewhere in this book is particularly useful for these circumstances. If you really have experienced the brain fatigue symptoms outlined here, I would thoroughly recommend that you attend a mindfulness course and understand its methodology.

You might benefit from the brain exercises listed elsewhere in this book. A combination of brain exercises linked to a conscious rest programme will go a long way to defeating or at least managing a brain fatigue condition.

It worked for me, it can work for you.