Challenge Mind, Refocus, Changes Attitude

Good Morning, 

Thanks for a Blessed Thanksgiving fills my heart this Holiday Season.  Soon the celebration of Jesus birth.   'Happy Birthday, Jesus' and many 'Thanks', once more.

As I begin in my sharing, I want to express to everybody that is reading this that I am certainly not a scholar in knowledge of some of the topics that I share.  However; the experiences that I pen are from my heart to your heart.  Therefore, this alone frees me up to share more with ease. 

I spoke recently with someone that has contact with an RSDS/CRPS person frequently.  In my next writing, I will point out the stages of RSDS/CRPS. This is very important to understand.  It can change our attitude in our healing process and everyday depression and give hope to us. In light of this, I want to share views of thoughts, feelings, attitudes and the importance of an 'open mind' in any and all research, hearsay, experience in dealing with this condition.  I have found that once we are open and our hope is renewed in a way to cope and feel and believe in our heart that we can refocus, our life has purpose and we focus on the things that moves us forward. 

I have learned that the mind is a powerful thing.  Therefore, the brain can trick our minds in thinking and believing what we are feeling is real without any room to reevaluate our circumstances. I remember in my treatment after many pain blocks and over 30 different medications that the doctor wanted to perform a test to analyze my pain level in comparison to the brain impulses.  He injected a medication in a IV drip to numb most of my surface body from the wrist up.  He would inject needles into my flesh after the numbing solution supposedly took effect and study my reflex response. 

My first reaction was that he thought this was all in my head.  I was insulted and resentful. How dare him to do this or even think that I was making this pain up. After a long process of my choosing to have an open mind and trust in the doctor, did I settle down to listen and take in his knowledge as to how this medical procedure works. 

The result of this particular visit was one of many visits that helped my treatment to progress.  No, the pain wasn't in my mind, yes, I still do have RSDS, medications and pain blocks did follow, but I had a different thinking process starting to unfold. 

We all know that what we 'feed' something is what it will become.  An illustration of an Indian family goes something like this.  One child was good and another child was evil...the third Indian child ask his father which one he would be.  The father stated:  Son, it will depend on what you 'feed' your mind with the most. 

I shared with the doctor as to how I was coping and introduced to him how I had been receiving counseling through my pastor.  My doctor was impressed as I shared with him some of the Attitudinal Healing studies that I had experienced in our church setting.  My doctor, in turn, asked to speak to my pastor and as a result: A study was created in sharing, teaching and helping similar persons to copy through the mind set of: Body, Mind (patient/person), and Spirit.  To illustrate; my doctor/physician represents the study of the body, Mind was me as the patient/person experiencing the condition, and my pastor, representing the Spiritual side.  This was tremendous.

I share with all who read my experiences in living with RSDS/CRPS that these techniques can be used in any life situation.  We all experience hurts, losses, conditions that effect our living everyday.  Our thinking, our emotions, our pain, our grief are all a part of our makeup.  However; we are all similar in 'the very middle' of our bodies.  We might have different colored skin, live in different houses, have different wealth but we all are still alike 'in the very middle'.  God made us this way and He also, can give us joy, peace, love and hope in the midst of whatever circumstance we find ourselves in.  We will all find ourselves a little more whole and human and happy when we share and work together. Perhaps, each of us at some point, can say but more importantly feel like saying: Let it start with me.  Remember to hang on to the 'Golden Rope of Hope'.

In closing, when we challenge our minds, refocus our thinking; it does Change Our Attitude.
Until next time, May God Richly Bless and Keep You In His Care.