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Somatic Tracking for Pain

**DISCLAIMER**

Sorry for the monologue, but it’s important.

As anyone in Lymeland knows, ‘what works for one, doesn’t work for another.’  Please keep this in mind as you read the following information that I hope will help someone.  Further, I am in complete disagreement with any statements that Lyme/MSIDS can not be a persistent/chronic infection(s).  The doctor in the documentary, Dr. Howard Schubiner, admits there is controversy in the medical community over chronic Lyme/MSIDS, and that he has had the experience of seeing patients ‘overtreated’ with antibiotics for weeks, months, and years. While he states he is very happy for those who are doing well with long-term of treatment, he states patients should rethink their diagnosis if they are on a merry-go-round of costly and invasive treatments that aren’t working. To this doctor I would state: while you have had the unfortunate experience of helping ‘overtreated’ patients, there are thousands upon thousands in the real world who are dying from undertreatment.  Tread lightly.

While rethinking a diagnosis appears to be logically sane thinking, it’s imperative to understand treating Lyme/MSIDS is fraught with confusion, mystery, set backs, and pain. To my knowledge the only other diseases with Jarisch-Herxheimer reactions besides Lyme disease are syphilis, leptospirosis, and relapsing fever – which means unless you have had one of those diseases before, you have never experienced how confusing and relentless herxes are. They truly make you think you are losing your mind.

It is not uncommon at all for patients to hit plateaus in Lyme/MSIDS treatment. They might go through a period where they feel great only to have the dreaded symptoms, or even worse ones appear over night.  This is why Lyme literate doctors describe treating this similarly to peeling back the layers of an onion.  When one infection gets under control another one suddenly becomes visible.

This coinfection involvement never gets any air-play, but is crucial in understanding this beast. These infections require different medications entirely, but mainstream medicine doesn’t even consider them, so when a short course of doxy doesn’t make a person well, they simply fold up shop and declare, “you don’t have Lyme,” which could very well be true; however, they could also have Babesia, Bartonella, Relapsing Fever, or a whole host of other infections that look and act just like Lyme disease. Please go here to learn of the many issues surrounding why patients don’t get well.

So, once again, none of this is simple.  Keep an open mind.

One final note: I ended up using many aspects of this technique out of desperation, completely on my own.  I had no idea it was a ‘thing,’ but as they say, ‘necessity is the mother of invention.’

https://careclinic.io/somatic-tracking-pain/

Somatic Tracking for Pain: Unveiling Effective Techniques

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Living with pain can be a daunting and overwhelming experience. It can drastically affect our quality of life and prevent us from fully enjoying the activities we love. However, there is a technique called somatic tracking that can help us better understand and manage our pain. In this article, we will delve into the intricacies of somatic tracking, explore its benefits, and discuss how it can be implemented in our daily lives.

Understanding Somatic Tracking

Somatic tracking is a mindfulness-based technique that involves bringing awareness to our bodily sensations and learning to interpret them. By paying attention to our physical experiences, we can develop a deeper understanding of the underlying causes of our pain and explore ways to alleviate it.

When we talk about somatic tracking, we are referring to the practice of tuning in to the sensations and signals that our bodies send us. It’s like becoming fluent in the language of our own physical experiences. Just as we can learn to interpret words and phrases in a foreign language, we can learn to interpret the messages that our bodies are constantly sending us.

Imagine this: you wake up one morning with a dull ache in your lower back. Instead of dismissing it as just another discomfort, you decide to practice somatic tracking. You close your eyes, take a deep breath, and bring your attention to the area of your back that is bothering you. As you focus on the sensation, you start to notice subtle nuances – a tightness, a twinge, a warmth. These sensations become the building blocks of your understanding.  (See link for article)

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https://www.curablehealth.com/podcast/what-is-somatic-tracking  Podcast Here

A Podcast Where Real Chronic Pain Sufferers Meet Science-Backed Solutions 💫

Join us as our expert hosts help listeners overcome obstacles to healing through evidence-based techniques.

Go here for a Somatic Tracking exercise, and here for 10 best exercises

And here for an excerpt from The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain by Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv, the speakers from the podcast above.

And here for one person’s successful experience with Somatic Tracking without using drugs or getting surgery.

It is described as physical therapy for the brain.

https://www.thismighthurtfilm.com/

This Might Hurt

A Film about a radical treatment for chronic pain

THE PROBLEM: CHRONIC PAIN

One in seven people around the world suffer from chronic pain, and nearly 80% of us will experience it at some point in our lives. The symptoms show up as back pain, neck pain, fibromyalgia, migraines, irritable bowel syndrome, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and a dozen others. The standard treatments are often ineffective, and one of the main remedies, opioids, has made the problem worse. What’s going on here?

THE FILM

This Might Hurt is a documentary that offers solutions to reduce and unlearn chronic pain. The film follows three chronic pain patients who have spent years searching for answers. Desperate for relief, they enter a new medical program — run by Dr. Howard Schubiner — that focuses on uncovering hidden causes of pain, and retraining their brains to switch the pain off.

This new paradigm for diagnosis and treatment was found to be effective in several randomized trials, and was listed as a “best practice” by the HHS’s task force to combat the opioid epidemic. This Might Hurt provides an intimate exploration and suggests a path to healing for millions.

Here are just some of the conditions that can be caused by “primary pain,” also know as brain-generated pain:

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*These treatments are generally not recommended for people dealing with “secondary pain,” that is, pain that derives from cancer, fractures, muscle diseases, or infections.

NOT SURE IF THESE IDEAS APPLY TO YOUR SYMPTOMS?

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5 STEPS TO UNLEARNING CHRONIC PRIMARY PAIN EXPLORED IN THIS MIGHT HURT

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There are published studies demonstrating the effectiveness of mind-body treatment for people who have a similar collection of symptoms, but who were labeled as having fibromyalgia, not chronic Lyme. But there has not been a study of the mind-body treatment for people labeled as chronic Lyme disease, to our knowledge.

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Lyme, Pain Management, Treatment

The Dark Reality of Living With Lyme Disease

https://www.lymedisease.org/bredberg-dark-reality-lyme/

The dark reality of living with Lyme disease

By Kyle Bredberg

I have lived in New Paltz, New York, my whole life and throughout that time, have grown accustomed to many of the seemingly odd local rituals that our town performs.

One of these oddities is that in elementary school, New Paltz students learn to tuck their jeans into their socks, stuffing them full until their feet look like weird upside down sock puppets before departing on a field trip.

This is all part of the general awareness for ticks that the Hudson Valley strongly promotes to its residents. Students learn to buddy up and do tick checks and their noses often become normalized to the scent of DEET as parents worryingly spray down their clothes.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Bredberg admits that he became infected when tick awareness was nowhere near what it is today.  Similarly to others in Lymeland, despite severe hallmark symptoms all tests returned ‘negative.’

If it wasn’t for a relentless mother, he probably never would have gotten help.

Unfortunately he uses the wrong statistic that up to 20% go on to suffer long-term symptoms when in reality it’s somewhere between 40-60%. I also must disagree that ‘research, treatment, and awareness has come a long way from where it was 10 years ago.’

Despite climbing numbers, we are no further along in understanding why some develop chronic Lyme/MSIDS and others don’t, and how to effectively treat it.

While awareness efforts have increased, this is entirely due to sick people who have done what they can in their sphere of influence.

For more:

Sadly, the stories are plentiful, but nothing changes in the world of Lyme/MSIDS.

Category:

Activism, Lyme, Prevention, Testing, Ticks

In the Eye of the ‘Climate Change’ Storm: Data Causes Scientist To Do About-Face

For anyone paying attention, the players in this global cabal are all interrelated and are working in lockstep, which has rightly caused a crisis of trust.  While the unelected fully believe they need to dictate our every move due to our stupidity, they’ve been attempting to rebuild trust as they also attempt to ‘build back better,’ but the public is finally waking up to the fact nothing is back and nothing is better, as our freedoms are being removed one by one under the guise of ‘pandemics,’ ‘public health,’ ‘climate change,’ and ‘equity.’

Many are unaware that the climate narrative is part and parcel of this global endgame and that drastic and irreversible climate engineering worries real scientists who state the endeavor should be relegated to the fantasy realm and science fiction.

Listen to Professor Ian Plimer explain in under two minutes why climate change is a hoax.

But it’s all big, big business.

https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/judith-curry-phd-in-the-eye-of-the-climate-change-storm/  Video Here (Approx. 40 Min)

In the Eye of the ‘Climate Change’ Storm

Disgusted Climate Scientist, Judith Curry, PhD, once one of the strongest scientific voices in the race to fight global warming, has now been labeled a “climate contrarian”.

Hear the data behind this marked reversal and why she believes the “climate change crisis” is politically motivated.

POSTED: March 1, 2024

I started criticizing scientists for not making their data publicly available, for not being transparent about their method and they quickly started labeling us a denier and tried to discredit me.

Anybody who speaks up in opposition to this established UN narrative gets ignored, marginalized, cancelled, insulted, and so on. ~ Judith Curry, PhD

At about 13:00, Curry explains that in 2009, hacked ‘Climategate’ emails exposed that Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) authors were trying to avoid FOIA requests and rig the peer-review process. 

Previously to this, IPCC canonized and heavily promoted the infamously fraudulent hockey stick graph which relies on junk science and the proxy evidence from the tree rings of a single Yamal larch!  The graph was discredited in 2003.

Dr. Ball spent over eight years of his life defeating in a court of law not one top IPCC climate scientist, but two. It is more than mere coincidence that Dr Ball, a world-leading skeptical climatologist, was systematically targeted for legal retribution time and again by political groups such as the unscrupulous  Climate Science Legal Defense Fund.  As a retired scientist in his 80’s, he was a easy picking, and the stress of these lawsuits put an enormous toll on his health.  He managed to write a damning book of the 30-year back story of the great climate fraud titled ‘The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science.’

Please note Ball’s fraudulent hockey stick graph vs factual data used by Dr. Ball.

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Category:

Activism, Climate

Plandemic: The Musical

https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/plandemic-the-musical-to-debut-in-march/  Trailer and Interview Here

Plandemic: The Musical

Filmmaker Mikki WIllis, premieres the trailer for his upcoming film, Plandemic: The Musical, with cameos from some of your favorite luminaries, set to debut in Las Vegas March 9th.

POSTED: March 1, 2024

They are chipping away at our will to live. ~ Mikki Willis, producer

Plandemic.com 

VIP Meet and Greet: 5:45 pm
Red Carpet: 6:45 pm
Premiere: 7:00 pm

Location:
Horseshoe Hotel Grand Ballroom
3645 Las Vegas Blvd S.
Las Vegas, NV 89109

Category:

Activism, Viruses

More CDC & Pharma Incest

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/new-cdc-advisers-vaccines-conflict-of-interest-pharma/

9 New ‘Independent’ Advisers to CDC Publicly Promoted Vaccines or Took Money From Pharma — or Both

After struggling for months to fill seats on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced nine new appointees. All have financial ties to vaccine makers or have publicly promoted COVID-19, RSV and HPV vaccines — or both.

3/6/24
SUMMARY OF ARTICLE:
  • HHS appointed new members to the ACIP – 9 of which have conflicts of interest
  • ACIP, which is supposed to be an independent, nonfederal expert body has nothing to do with health and everything to do with profit
  • The group includes 14 medical experts and a singular lay member to represent consumers as well as a non-voting body of eight ex officio members from other federal health departments & health-related organizations
  • The group recently lacked enough members to vote, requiring temporary government employees to fill in
  • The group  has also struggled to fill vacancies which will only increase in June
  • The article states that ‘stringent measures and rigorous screening,’ were used yet ALL of the new appointees have received grant funding or consulting fees from major pharmaceutical companies, including vaccine makers like Pfizer, Moderna and Merck, or have worked for HHS or on recent HHS grants developing or testing vaccines or investigating how to improve vaccine uptake.
  • Many were also key public advocates for the COVID, RSV, and HPV vaccines.
  • The article gives specifics on appointees and their conflicts, which is frankly depressing and clearly unethical.

Another perfect example that corrupt government agencies are beyond hope and rehabilitation, and quit caring about health decades ago, if they ever did.

Category:

Activism, vaccines