fibromyalgia

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Sat Nam Monica,

 

I can share this with you from my personal experience with fibromyalgic pain

over the last 2-3 years. I was also experiencing chronic fatigue and a few

other conditions at the same time so that may or may not apply to what it is

that you are inquiring about?

 

Along with KY, I have also sought out the help of many alternative therapies, so

of course all of this plays into the recovery of this condition as well.

 

But anyways, my point......my first approach was to push myself to do more

yoga....even though I was extremely fatigued and in a state of constant soreness

and muscle fatigue....and I continued like that for about 2 years. I was

afraid, if I pulled back on my practice, that I would loose ground and it would

only get worse and snowball...so I kept trying to push through the discomfort

to heal myself.

 

I have been practicing KY for 6 years and teaching it for 4 or 5 years and in

the beginning of my practice I experienced what i would call miraculous results

with some conditions I had been experiencing prior to beginning a practice of

KY....and I often shared these stories with my students to inspire them and

encourage them to keep up....so when i crashed a few years later, I had fear of

letting people know what i was experiencing because I was afraid, nobody would

feel inspired to practice KY anymore, if they knew what I was experiencing and

going through health crisis wise....because prior to that I had been very

outspoken about what KY can do for a person's health based on my previous

experience with it...and now i was in a bad way...so i kept doing more KY trying

to keep up and heal myself before anybody had to find out that I was infact

sick.

 

Looking back at it now, I laugh to myself, because as the condition progressed I

began to have attacks of pain in public places and often infront of

students....so my secret was out....and I confessed to one long time student how

I was afriad that people might feel de-inspired to continue their practice if

they knew of my struggle...and she told me at the time it was the exact

opposite...if anything, she was more inspired because she was now seeing me as a

human being with the same kinds of challenges as everyone else...where as before

she had the idea that what I had been talking about was an ideal that the

average person could never hope to attain....in other words, she thought I was a

special case and it may work for me, but not for the average person who

practices KY.

 

At one point, I asked my teacher for his advice, should I keep going or should i

sit back and relax if I am tired and in pain? And what he told me was that KY

stimulates ALOT of energy, which can be more aggravating to the adrenals than

helpful when you have chronic fatigue.....so the trick he said is to practice

everything in a completely relaxed way...he told me not to practice anything,

yoga wise or otherwise, that I couldn't do in a stress free, relaxed manner.

 

So i began to relax into all parts of my life and to accept my experience,

rather than try to heal it, by doing more and more. I still practiced the

alternative therapies, but my mind set went from trying to heal myself, to

simply being and accepting my experience of pain and fatigue....being with it,

recognizing it, nurturing myself when in pain and connecting with the deep

wisdom that flows from the feminine consciousness, asking for guidance and

understanding of this experience and what it was trying to teach me.

 

Once I gave myself permission to relax for as long as I needed to after each

exercise...or not to practice physical yoga at all on some days...some days I'd

just do meditation if that's all i could muster stree free.....it all began to

change and transform.

 

I began to understand how the feminine and masculine approaches intercourse in

our yogic practice and also in our daily lives. I was very polarized in the

masculine, when I was forcing myself to keep up at any cost

(warrior-like)....but what was really being called for was a relaxing into the

feminine nature...being with the experience without feeling like something needs

to be fixed with it...just accepting it as it is and responding from a place of

deep wisdom and guidance, rather than my fear of losing ground if I took the

time to relax and breathe for as long as needed in my practice and in my daily

life.

 

So my advice is to suggest the idea of practicing yoga in a way that is stress

free and also to begin to notice how the masculine and feminine arise within our

yogic practice and to find the balance in that. So I don't think it matters so

much what kriya's that he practices, but rather the approach that he takes to

each practice, when it comes to fibromyalga.

 

All Light,

Sat Sangeet kaur

AB, Canada

 

 

 

 

 

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