Grateful for a headache? These are words that in my wildest imagination (and my imagination has been pretty wild in the past) I would never have thought I would say!
As a very young person I started getting headaches which could easily turn to migraines.
With symptoms and pain I learnt a variety of ways to support myself with preventative strategies, and when that wasn’t sufficient, I medicated to suppress and relieve – this method I used a lot.
Since choosing to live in a way that offers a deep awareness and honouring of myself in all that I do, the headaches have reduced significantly and the occurrences are very far apart. Also, I haven’t had a migraine since I chose not to drink alcohol.
Then, yesterday morning, I found myself just out of the normal rhythm that supports me in preparing for my day. There was nothing ‘wrong’, but I found that something in me had shifted and there I was talking on the phone with the phone pressed between my ear and shoulder – it was uncomfortable and definitely not supportive! Clearly I was not with myself – this is rule no.1 for what not to do for potential headaches. Next I ‘decided’ that I didn’t have time to finish eating breakfast at the table and instead took spoonfuls as I walked past. I could feel that was yuk so I did stop and sit for the last couple of bites.
During the afternoon I could feel the headache coming through and I could also feel the cause: so simple were my ‘earlier little antics’, but significant enough to place me in a momentum that had stayed with me for the day and brewed up to become the warning signal – that I hadn’t been fully with myself.
The pain was just giving me the gentle reminder that I needed to stop, reflect and consider that what I do to myself matters.
Not to mention that how I then am in the world reflects to others – no matter how subtle or seemingly invisible.
So I am grateful for my in-built detection device, and very grateful for the presentations of Universal Medicine. With the loving livingness that is offered from Serge Benhayon and all the Universal Medicine practitioners my awareness has grown to really appreciating what and how my body naturally shows me when I am starting to go off, and the ability I have to discern this – to listen for myself.
From this place and space of awareness I can then choose my next step to support where my body is, and what will lovingly assist it to return all of me to the natural harmony I now know I am.
By Sandra Williamson, Hairdresser, Brisbane
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How often do we walk through life thinking and accepting things that are actually not true, but by virtue of humanity walking commonly with these things — think that it is accepted ‘our normal’.
How crazy is that? And how much love is there actually that awaits for us to accept as our standard, our normal.
I am hugely grateful for Universal Medicine too, for showing me how to listen to my body, to trust what I feel and to connect to the wisdom from my body.
How amazing it is that we actually have our own “in-built detection device”, one that alerts us on-goingly to what is happening in our body. And when we are treating our wonderful body in a lesser way than it deserves it will let us know very loudly. But do will always take notice? Often, probably not. But as you learned when you don’t the messages are incredibly clear and normally very uncomfortable.
It’s so easy to write off minor deviations from taking care of ourselves as being insignificant and not worth bothering about. And easy to write off minor health issues as things that we don’t need to look at, assuming that if the body’s not screaming to us, then it’s ‘probably fine’. But what’s so clearly shown here is that the two are closely related: how we are with ourselves and with our bodies matters and has an effect on our health.
I recently met someone who suffers from migraines and I was interested to find out more about what this means. From what I have learned and my understanding is that headaches and migraines are related to control and frustration and also, how we choose to live can trigger a migraine.
‘The pain was just giving me the gentle reminder that I needed to stop, reflect and consider that what I do to myself matters…’ This is significant in terms of our own health care, isn’t it? How many of us ignore the symptoms and battle on though, creating more and more layers of disregarding choices that only result in the body having to speak louder. By observing how we are with ourselves and becoming more regarding in our way of living, it can be startling to feel how much improvement in our wellbeing there is, especially when we first start.
If we listen to our bodies to begin with we can nip things in the bud before they get too big, leave listening and ignore our bodies messages and it will only build up to be something more menacing later.
Yes, I agree with you Sam, the key is to listen to our body. Any symptoms we receive are really our body communicating to us but are we prepared to stop and listen or do we ignore these messages?
We all have this in-built detection device, yet many of us ignore it – in a nutshell this is why we have so much illness and disease.
Our body never fails to alert us to feel when we are living with love and when we are not. I love this and how this reflection is with us 24/7 and always has been since our first breath. Wise it is to develop an honouring relationship with our body so that the divine quality of our being is what moves us through our living day.
Our body is our friend, not our enemy that so many tend to think, and it will not shy away from communicating truth to us 24/7.
Our bodies are such an amazing marker of truth and where we are at in any moment.
The lack of self care or any levels of dishonouring show up sooner or later. The question here is whether we are choosing to listen or ignore the call?
If we were to rush or push a baby’s or young child’s body we know there are consequences, but we forget we too as adults have the same delicate, sensitive bodies. Believing we are tough or disconnecting to how we truly feel doesn’t stop our body being sensitive and affected by how we treat it.
“The pain was just giving me the gentle reminder that I needed to stop, reflect and consider that what I do to myself matters.” Gosh its so simple isn’t it – we can always get so complicated and down when we don’t feel as well as we think we should, yet the bodies messages are simply a reminder to check in.
“The pain was just giving me the gentle reminder that I needed to stop, reflect and consider that what I do to myself matters.” This is so important. Every move we make, every thought and spoken word do indeed matter. Our body can show us the truth of our living, if we listen and honour its messages.
Our body is indeed very wise and our greatest friend.
“From this place and space of awareness I can then choose my next step to support where my body is, and what will lovingly assist it to return all of me to the natural harmony I now know I am.” – This is surely medicine for us all, to be more aware of the whole of who we are, including our body and how we live our daily life. Not that we won’t ever need conventional medicine too but just appreciating the impact of the way we live…
So simple the innate wisdom of the body is coming through always to gently or sometimes loudly guide us back to our harmony.
Headaches have been a big feature of my life on and off and going through the change of life as a woman has brought more messages to me in the form of headaches or long running low level migraines. Sometimes as I go deeper within myself and surrender, I have something like a whole body migraine especially centred around my spine especially neck, head and face. Stopping and surrendering is still the best thing I can do, feeling the old frustration and sadness, along with appreciating the expansion and discarding therefore that is going on. I am so thankful that this energy is largely apparent because it is leaving me these days rather than something I am adding anew, but without perfection. If I go into those energies I know they will lead to headaches later when it leaves me.
Sandra your blog really does show that every movement matters and every moment matters in how this affects our health, our day and how we are in the world with each other.
Thank you Sandra, I appreciated your observation of the body showing you that being with you and honouring and loving yourself is what keeps it in harmony, and that there is an even greater reason to love and support ourselves because of our impact on on the all we are a part of.