| If you are reading this article, most likely you or | | | | power to opt out of that destructive cycle. |
| someone close to you suffers from fibromyalgia. | | | | You may already know that the discouragement, |
| You may be fed up, tired of the endless search | | | | disappointment, and depression that often |
| for a treatment and missing the healthy life you | | | | naturally accompany fibromyalgia are making |
| once loved. | | | | things worse, but you do not know how to break |
| I know what you are going through. I am acutely | | | | free from them. Has the common thought, "things |
| aware of this struggle. As an active sixteen-year | | | | will never get better" ever crossed your mind? |
| old high school student, I began to experience the | | | | Contrary to what your fears may tell you, you |
| debilitating symptoms of fibromyalgia. I felt | | | | can take charge. Life coaching will help you target |
| victimized as I could no longer participate in | | | | the stressful thoughts that weaken you, so you |
| running cross-country, playing soccer, and | | | | can discover your innate power within and enjoy |
| waterskiing in the summers. Some invisible force, | | | | optimal health. |
| it seemed, had taken over my body and I felt | | | | Life coaching will teach you to accept the |
| powerless to intervene. Using a wheelchair | | | | diagnosis of fibromyalgia, but ignore the prognosis. |
| because I could not walk long distances and | | | | This thought was presented by Norman Cousins |
| sleeping fourteen hours each day characterized | | | | who said: "Don't deny the diagnosis, just defy the |
| my lowest point. Frustration came easily, | | | | verdict that is supposed to accompany it." In |
| especially as I walked the long confusing road in | | | | other words, just because medical studies indicate |
| search of treatment. Effective treatment varies | | | | fibromyalgia leads to a life filled with fatigue and |
| from person to person, but one strategy I have | | | | pain, that does not have to apply to you. |
| found universally applicable. | | | | Inarguably, fibromyalgia has a scary verdict and |
| Life coaching helps immensely. I decided to go to | | | | medical studies can be grim. Fear has a tricky |
| school to become a life coach and I was | | | | way of winding its way into your subconscious |
| pleasantly surprised at the improved health that | | | | mind, sticking there, and creating the painful |
| resulted from using the life coaching methods on | | | | outcome you are trying to avoid. Life coaching |
| myself. It shifted my awareness and inspired me | | | | can free you from that fate. |
| to think of my life in terms of "I can" and "I | | | | By employing the life coaching methods, I have |
| enjoy" instead of "I can't" and "I miss out." More | | | | noticed my fibromyalgia symptoms lessening. |
| importantly, it helped me to go deeper, | | | | Physical pain is subsiding, as though it were leaving |
| investigating subconscious thoughts that kept me | | | | along with the emotional pain that life coaching has |
| bound. Years of suffering had programmed fear, | | | | taught me to release. I feel so much freedom, |
| frustration, and disappointment into my | | | | independence, and power. I used to follow and |
| subconscious thinking. Through life coaching, I am | | | | strict diet and take medication and now I eat |
| able to prune out the destructive thoughts and | | | | much more liberally and only take supplements. |
| replace them with empowering ones. | | | | Working with my mind made all the difference. |
| You are probably unaware of how your | | | | "When the mind is clear, the body follows" says |
| subconscious thinking is affecting you. You may | | | | Byron Katie, founder of the School of the Work, |
| be carrying around thoughts that flare up | | | | the life coaching school I attended. |
| fibromyalgia symptoms. It is only natural. Fear is a | | | | I strongly urge you to schedule a sample life |
| natural result of pain and living fearfully naturally | | | | coaching session, free of charge, to make better |
| leads to more pain. Although it is natural, it is | | | | use of the latent power within you to live a |
| certainly not healthy. Negative, fearful thinking | | | | healthier and happier life. Take action now and |
| emotionally weakens you and makes fibromyalgia | | | | learn how life coaching can awaken you to a |
| symptoms more apparent and powerful. As a | | | | sense of personal empowerment. You will thank |
| result, you end up feeling less powerful and more | | | | yourself later. |
| victimized. However, you and only you have the | | | | |