The simple way to recovery from CFS/M.E.

I am in the process of rewriting my book. It is amazing how the book has been changing and evolving since I first started writing it! And I have been changing and evolving too. The "me" I was then is gone and there is a "new me" - a new experience of life.

After about six months of being symptom-free, I started to think what the process of recovery was really about. I wanted to put it all into one sentence that would summarize the whole idea of overcoming CFS/M.E. and I knew it had to be simple. I needed a sentence that would wrap up my path to recovery and serve as the central idea of the book so that it would have a stronger foundation. It came to me last night when I was about to sleep. So here it is:

Remove all obstacles to feeling good!

Although it may sound too simple, I think it's the truth. I am well aware that I may be ostracized for putting recovery from something as "complicated" as CFS/M.E. in so simple terms, but I still like the sentence. The simplest things are always beautiful. Consider this.

What does being healthy mean to you? Think about it for a minute. Have you ever tried to define it?

Here's what I think:

I am aiming at maximum simplicity again: being healthy means ... feeling good (not just physically but also emotionally). Or we could even use the word GREAT!

There is something more to being healthy though. It is something that is often overlooked - happiness. Plz check out my new blog entry at http://fatiguesyndrome.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/happiness-and-health-what-can-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-teach-us/

The Symptom Path to Enlightenment - an introduction to Ericksonian therapy

*The Symptom Path to Enlightenment is a book by Milton Erickson's student Ernest Lawrence Rossi, Ph.D that discusses how patients can learn to understand their body's messages.

In Rossi's own words:

"I teach entirely natural procedures whereby patients can learn to recognize the meaning of their own sensations, emotions, thoughts, creativity and developing points of view. I help patients discover the new frames of reference that their inner mind-body is creating spontaneously at many levels within themselves. Life is naturally creative - we are always in a state of creative flux to deal with an ever changing world. I help patients to create or, better, to discover the naturally healing reframes that are taking place in themselves all the time. In my most recent book I call this "The Symptom Path to Enlightenment." People learn how to listen to the message that their stress induced symptoms may be telling them. They learn how to convert their so-called "symptoms" into "signals" of how and when they need to do their own inner healing. By heeding the message of their symptoms they gradually acquire their own insights and "enlightenment" about how to better their lives and facilitate their own healing."

-www.hypnogenesis.com/erossi.htm

Check out my book called "A Manual for Dealing With CFS/M.E"