Dealing with Pain
Sheila's Personal Experience with Pain
RELEASING PAIN
The release of pain shows the power of releasing. Releasing can reduce or even eliminate pain. The release of pain in one part of the body can also eliminate pain in another area, or it can then be felt in a different area. When saying the release, just asking the pain to leave may not be enough to make the release work. It seems to need ‘CAUSING’ in the statement for it to work. Find what works for you.
There are two kinds of pain. One is a specific pain that is located in one area. The other is a general pain that may encompass a large area or even all of your body. The following releases can be used to get rid of either kind. You can do both releases at the same time or do the first release and check the level of pain before doing the second one. The more emphatically you say it, the faster it works. Be very demanding. Really want ALL of the pain to leave. Say:
“I DEMAND THAT WHATEVER IS CAUSING THIS PAIN TO LEAVE ME NOW!”
“IF ANYTHING KARMIC IS CAUSING THIS PAIN, I DEMAND IT TO LEAVE ME NOW!”If you have a pain in a part of the body that you can touch with your finger, press around the area until you find a sore spot. Keep touching that spot while you say the statements either silently or out loud. Really want the soreness to leave! When you feel finished saying the release, determine if that spot is still sore. If not, congratulations, you just healed yourself!
If the soreness is gone in that spot but you still feel pain, move your finger around the area to find another sore spot and repeat both releases. Continue the process until all the sore spots are gone. For a general pain, or pain in a place you can’t touch, focus on the pain and repeat the statement of release. Keep repeating it until you feel finished, or the level of pain is reduced.
After releasing examine how you feel. Can you detect any reduction in the general level of pain? Severe pain, and pain that has been with you a long time, may take many releases to eliminate pain. However, any reduction in the level of pain is good. Keep at it.
If you can’t get rid of the pain with these releases, it means you have to get more specific and identify the thoughts involved. A Specific Release is used for this. Each part of the body is affected by a different set of specific negative thoughts and the location of pain can direct you to the thoughts involved. The rest of the book will help you to identify what needs to be released. (See THOUGHTS)
SHEILA: Personal Experience with Pain
I have had a lifetime of pain. I was born without a left hip socket and grew up walking with a limp and a lot of pain, but I never let it slow me down. However, the pain grew increasingly difficult to live with. I should have gone to a cane but my vanity prevented it. Pain killers no longer helped much and by the time I was 30 my leg was finished and I had to have surgery.
Hip replacement at that time was new and not recommended for someone as young as I was, so they decided to try to build a hip socket. It didn't work so they eventually had to put in a hip replacement and that didn't work either. Each time I would venture out I would hurt my leg and it would be six weeks in healing. It was a constant problem. I found it very difficult to do anything for fear of getting hurt. The pain turned me into a recluse. I no longer had my teaching position, my marriage collapsed, I had a child to care for, and I was still in pain.
Finally the whole hip collapsed and the replacement had to be removed. My leg was now 3 inches shorter but I was essentially out of pain. I was told I would never get off of crutches but being out of terrible pain was like being reborn. It was at this time I began learning about the pendulum.
Several years later I went on a silent Peace March in memory of HIROSHIMA. I had to climb a steep hill to a little chapel and in the process seemed to have pulled a muscle in my leg. I thought at the time that I was out of shape and really had to get back to exercising. By that night I couldn't move. I recognized that pain as I had lived with it for years. I totally accepted that I would be incapacitated for 6 weeks. It hurt so badly that I could hardly breathe. After two days of this, I decided I really didn't want to be down for 6 weeks. I had been experimenting with releasing small pain successfully and here was my chance to work on severe pain.
I asked the pendulum if I could release the pain and it signaled YES. I began releasing and also saying healing affirmations. I wish I had recorded the sequence but I didn't. However, within a few hours ALL OF THE PAIN WAS GONE. It was unbelievable, especially after having lived with that pain for so many years.
The next day I went to work, became distressed about something and the pain returned a little. I again released what was causing it and the pain was gone for good. It taught me the lesson of my life. I no longer needed to be a victim of pain. At the first sign of pain I checked it out to see what was causing the pain and then released it. And I did very well for many years.
However, 10 years later I broke the knee on my bad leg. My other knee became very distressed as a result of the increased use of it as I struggled to keep going. I had been using a cane but now I was back to crutches. The doctor said I would be in a wheelchair within a year so I changed doctors. The new doctor wanted to do four different surgeries, hip, both knees and my wrist that had developed Carpel Tunnel Syndrome. While waiting to see him, I picked up a magazine that had the story of a woman recovering from spinal paralysis. She said a chiropractor was helping her to recover.
I decided I did not want surgery because of my past bad experience with surgery. I left the office and went to a chiropractor. I am now essentially out of pain, and go back to the chiropractor when I am
experiencing pain that I can't get rid of. I am finally back to a cane, off of pain killers most of the time, and doing very well again. I have to add that I have also done a lot of releasing. If I get distressed,
the pain returns. If I get very distressed, I can't walk. Controlling my level of stress is essential to being pain free.
Pain is often experienced as small lumps in the body just under the skin, and are very sore when pressed. I had one very sore spot along the edge of my ribs near the sternum. I thought my muscles for walking were attached there because I could feel it pull as I took each step. I assumed it was from not walking right. I never thought to ask the pendulum until one day when it was particularly painful. Much to my surprise it was RAGE AT HAVING TO USE A CANE. I did the release and worked on changing my thoughts about using the cane. Now I try to think nice thoughts about the cane and how it helps me get around easily. That sore spot isn't there any more and I am very grateful to be out of pain most of the time, and to know what to do when I am in pain.
