Meditation Challenge: Being Mindful of Add Ons by Courtney Martin When I first started getting migraines in my mid-20s, I didn’t just have headaches. I had a family curse. My mind would spiral. So a pain in my brain mutated very quickly into a family curse, a lifetime of pain, and a deep, dark secret from my dad, who I love so much. Talk about add-ons! I can mindfully retreat from this kind of spiraling and instead identify my headaches as exactly what they are, headaches. If fear comes up for me around getting these headaches, I won’t pretend it doesn’t exist, but I can notice it and gently redirect my energy to the physical sensation of the headache itself and figuring out how to make myself more comfortable for just this particular headache at this particular time. It feels like a big relief not to have to believe the other story. j.mp/HeadacheIsJustAHeadAche Paint Art by Fabian Oefner
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:35:47 +0000