Guest guest Posted October 6, 2009 Report Share Posted October 6, 2009 Dear all, any recommendations what to do from a yogic perspective when suffering phantom pain due to an amputated foot? Sat Nam Karta Purkh Singh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 7, 2009 Report Share Posted October 7, 2009 Dear KP Singh......I have no experience with this (Phantom pain), but I do have experience with advanced yoga. Kundalini yoga as taught by 3HO is a 'householders' yoga. It creates health and the maintenance of it, and can heal the stresses of living in the world. But losing a limb is an extreme thing and calls for extreme measures. I can only suggest what I would do. I know there will be those here that disagree with me, but my experience of doing many different kinds of kryias is that they all pretty much do the same thing when you really push them to the extreme...that is...they push your conscious control deeper into the nervous system (brain)and give one more control over the body and mind. You can go into places of mind where miracles are possible. Think of Guru Arjun sitting calmly on the hotplate. For myself when i need to go 'beyond' the householder path...I start with strict juice fasting...and lots of pranayama...up to 5 hours a day. My favorite is Long Ek Ong Kars. The fasting just speeds the process...allows for more oxygen uptake. If the person has a reasonably good diet and is healthy in other ways fasting and pranayama will eventually give them control of their nervous system...and they will find the switch for the pain...and a lot of other wonderful things too. I usually 'break-through' at 14 to 20 days......Once they sense the 'blue ethers' it should be easy enough to plant their own suggestions into the nerves and control it..... This is what i would do. I send out a prayer to whomever it is..that they find the Will lift themselves into this altitude...... In peace Kirantana Kundalini-Yoga , " falmiko " <kp wrote: > > Dear all, > > any recommendations what to do from a yogic perspective when suffering phantom pain due to an amputated foot? > > Sat Nam > Karta Purkh Singh > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 7, 2009 Report Share Posted October 7, 2009 Sat Nam This is not yogic but I read that the best way to deal with it is to use a mirror and shine it on the good foot so it will look like the amputated foot is actually there and the person will think the foot is still there. you can probably google something like " amputated limb mirror therapy " and find out the exact way they do it. Here is one article. http://www.selfdiscoveryportal.com/arMirrorTherapy.htm GuruBandhu Kundalini-Yoga , " falmiko " <kp wrote: > > Dear all, > > any recommendations what to do from a yogic perspective when suffering phantom pain due to an amputated foot? > > Sat Nam > Karta Purkh Singh > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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