#Yoga for pain

[egg-boy]

this comic is a metaphor but also real

[obsob]

big man...why is he so big...(hes full of love)

[lazyyogi]

Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to — alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person — you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.

This is one reason why most people are always trying to escape from the present moment and are seeking some kind of salvation in the future. The first thing that they might encounter if they focused their attention on the Now is their own pain, and this is what they fear.

If they only knew how easy it is to access in the Now the power of presence that dissolves the past and its pain, the reality that dissolves the illusion. If they only knew how close they are to their own reality, how close to God.

Eckhart Tolle

[chroniclesofchronicillness]

It’s always yoga 🤦🏻‍♀️

[arctic-hands]

If doctors are going to constantly tell disabled people to do yoga for pain relief, they need to make it so yoga is covered by medicaid

[onlyregretspasthere]

Nothing infuriates me more than when I'm talking to my family mentioning I did nothing all weekend because I worked all week and my body is in too much pain and too tired to function and their response is oh we're all a little tired but we still do stuff on the weekend

Like yes that's great for you but not everyone can do that while I may not yet have a diagnosis yet may that doesn't mean my body is not still effected by the problems I'm having - I work an 8 hour day and die when I get home all my joints screaming at me and tired enough that it is feeling as if I ran a marathon while sick with the flu so please kindly shut up 💜

Diagnosis' are hard as fuck to get don't belittle people who are working to get them

[survivingfmandcfs]

Every day I'm like, "Okay, it's time to do yoga!" And then lie down face first on my bedroom floor.

[spooniestrong]

[rubyeditsandstuff]

the next person who tries to tell me   “you just need to do X to cure your chronic illness!”   is going to get beaten to death with a binder of my entire compiled medical history

[lazyyogi]

The first thing to remember is this: As long as you make an identity for yourself out of the pain, you cannot become free of it. As long as part of your sense of self is invested in your emotional pain, you will unconsciously resist or sabotage every attempt that you make to heal that pain.

Why? Quite simply because you want to keep yourself intact, and the pain has become an essential part of you. This is an unconscious process, and the only way to overcome it is to make it conscious.

To suddenly see that you are or have been attached to your pain can be quite a shocking realization. The moment you realize this, you have broken the attachment.

The pain-body is an energy field, almost like an entity, that has become temporarily lodged in your inner space. It is life energy that has become trapped, energy that is no longer flowing.

Of course, the pain-body is there because of certain things that happened in the past. It is the living past in you, and if you identify with it, you identify with the past.

A victim identity is the belief that the past is more powerful than the present, which is the opposite of the truth. It is the belief that other people and what they did to you are responsible for who you are now, for your emotional pain or your inability to be your true self.

The truth is that the only power there is is contained within this moment: It is the power of your presence. Once you know that, you also realize that you are responsible for your inner space now — nobody else is — and that the past cannot prevail against the power of the Now.

Eckhart Tolle

[kagrenacs]

every time someone tells someone suffering from joint pain to 'just try yoga! Do natural supplements!' I kill again

[aro-culture-is]

quick note - this blog is gonna be sparse again for at least this week. trying new medications and tbh initial side effects are not super pleasant + actual effects build up. as a result: currently as if unmedicated for mental health, with anxiety+ side effect, extra fatigue, dizziness, and fatigue. it's uh, sure something.

totally recognize that most of y'all know we're absent at times due to health things, just wanted to give a heads up that this one is at least anticipated.

[runawaymun]

btw idk if you know this, but if you're dealing with some bad lower back pain and it feels super tight down there, go find something you can safely dead hang from (no activation of muscles aside from hanging on like you're gonna do a pull up). Tree branches, monkey bars, pull up bar, whatever you have nearby. Hang for 30 seconds on, then take a break, then repeat a couple times. This can decompress your vertebrae and give a whole bunch of relief.

This is coming from someone who recently got pulled on my ass by a 40 pound cattle dog who'd seen a squirrel, and I landed pretty hard, wound up compressing my back for a few days. This is the only thing that helped haha. Stretching, foam rolling, etc wasn't addressing the root issue. This is good if you take a hard fall (landing on your ass or on your feet), or if you just sit a lot in general. Helps a TON with your lower back.

[bluenotemagpie]

i have been here for [redacted] years on this bitch of an earth and it only just occurred to me that the reason my one shoulder is ALWAYS higher than the other when I do a body scan thing, whether for yoga or meditation, is because my fucking spine is diagnosed as Not Straight. "I can never get this knot out of my shoulder to get it to relax" that's not a knot girl that's your fucking bones

[jacks-wierd-world]