Most of us gained an hour of daylight this weekend by the simple tactic of winding our timing devices back (or equivalent:)).
As migraine sufferers, is there a comparable way to heal ourselves inside, so that we can limit the amount of stress and suffering caused by our affliction? Let me tell you the story of Victor Frankl.
Frankl wrote a book called “Man’s Search for Meaning”, in which he described his experiences in Nazi concentration camps from 1942 to 1945. He lost his entire family yet he survived. As a keen observer of life, he realized that there were people like himself whose spirits even the harshest of cruelties could not break. He wrote:
“…everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Your cruelties come from within. At any time you remain free to choose to change your attitude towards your pain. I can help you do just that.
Another of Frankl’s teachings:
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is the power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Your stimulus is pain; up until now your reactions to pain have been based on your long term conditioning, or on the emotional climate of the day. If you could utilize the ‘space’ by learning a more productive response to pain, wouldn’t that be worthwhile?
Later this week, I will be announcing a migraine webinar to show you how to implement Frankl’s ideas in your life. To learn more and register early, please go to
http://migraineindependence.weebly.com/positive-psychology-migraine-webinar.html
As migraine sufferers, is there a comparable way to heal ourselves inside, so that we can limit the amount of stress and suffering caused by our affliction? Let me tell you the story of Victor Frankl.
Frankl wrote a book called “Man’s Search for Meaning”, in which he described his experiences in Nazi concentration camps from 1942 to 1945. He lost his entire family yet he survived. As a keen observer of life, he realized that there were people like himself whose spirits even the harshest of cruelties could not break. He wrote:
“…everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Your cruelties come from within. At any time you remain free to choose to change your attitude towards your pain. I can help you do just that.
Another of Frankl’s teachings:
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is the power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Your stimulus is pain; up until now your reactions to pain have been based on your long term conditioning, or on the emotional climate of the day. If you could utilize the ‘space’ by learning a more productive response to pain, wouldn’t that be worthwhile?
Later this week, I will be announcing a migraine webinar to show you how to implement Frankl’s ideas in your life. To learn more and register early, please go to
http://migraineindependence.weebly.com/positive-psychology-migraine-webinar.html
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