Apologies guys!
..I am picking up on this thread a bit late on, but I wanted to add a spiritual perspective.. some might not believe in this and of course, your viewpoint is valid, but for others who perhaps have an open mind to it or do believe in it, I used to heal people with my hands.
I never bragged about it, I just did it with family and friends. Somebody once told me that like Jesus, I had suffered and my empathy transferred to being able to connect to and heal others pain.. whatever the reasons..! I did see real results that sometimes freaked me out when I tried to get my head round them hours later.
I work in a healing capacity in the types of work that I do.., which I didn't do for years but found peace by doing even though my friends and colleagues all said: keep away, don't get drained, etc etc well in the end I felt more at peace when I stopped fighting the feeling (didn't know I was doing at the time) and accepted and it has turned out to be no surprise that now this is and feels like my pre-ordained (though I had a choice of course) role in life.
Now, while this may seem off-topic, bear with me: I did healing work on people with a whole range of ailments, including a lady with severe migraines. I later, myself, began suffering severe migraines and continue to get them at times. I remember one day lying down and quietly asking God: "what's with the migraines?" - I wasn't feeling very polite at that time, because I was crippled with them.. Anyway.., I got my answer (I am a medium.. again, bear with me if you don't believe in mediums) but my answer was basically this (and don't laugh because I am still putting in to practise what I have learned for myself, so I'm far from preaching! ): many illnesses, including many neurological ones, that do not have a direct cause in terms of e.g. an externally contracted infection etc, are caused by how we feel and think about issues past and present in our lives!
Okay.. so some of you might be saying: "you what"?! ..me too, exact same response.
I was then given a demonstration: when I don't accept support and help that is available to me, my lower back goes in to spasm and it is so locked and painful I cannot stand up straight - I am literally bent at a right angle and if it happens in bed, I cannot get out of bed.
The other was the migraines: after the first answer, I asked: so if my mindset is part of why I am experiencing migraines.., please tell me what is causing them, so I can take back control.. I got: that in my case, the migraines were caused by being in a constant state of denial about a major life event. At first, over several months of just staying aware of this, I noticed a correlation (you might call that convenient, but when I forgot about it it was later still true when I remembered and realised).
Each time I was trying to `block something out' of my mind, the migraines started. Blocking things out of my mind meant disconnecting emotionally (not purposely, but that was the end result of what I was subconsciously doing)!
When I allowed myself to relax and managed to reconnect emotionally, the thoughts/memories of events came back and the migraines went, even if slowly over several hours, nevertheless they went.. What this did for me, and I can only speak for me at this point, is that it made me realise that my experiences and the resulting feelings were instrumental in how I lived my life going forward. Going forward, if I stayed connected, I stayed more aware of things like my health and safety and my rights where my health and safety were in jeopardy - this is my particular case - and this emotional being connected and switched on meant I made better choices that prevented a repeat of those experiences. I partly shut down emotionally to situations similar to those past experiences because I didn't want to face my own sense of inadequacy and at times failure at not handling those situations and by being emotionally connected and therefore aware, I was better preparing myself rather than pushing away the emotions and going in to denial so that I could start to deal with what I felt I was not good at, weak at, powerless to deal with etc and my migraines continued to decrease.
Just a thought for those who might also be able to see and accept the connection between the spiritual and the physical where it is relevant.
