The 111 Breathwork Pattern developed by ancient Buddhist monks that YOU can add to your Arachnoiditis Treatment toolbox. Science has caught up, now fMRI proves them right.
- Lori Verton
- 5 days ago
- 2 min read
I am one of the world's biggest cynics; I accept nothing as true unless I have learned the method of action and have seen measurable, repeatable and generalizable evidence using the best practices in medical research.
I have been quietly studying ways to limit the perception of pain through altered states of consciousness and how our inner attention can be brought under our full control.
This week, I shared a study on #breathworks that was just published a week ago.
Exciting evidence is now out. using fMRI techniques and illustrating how breathing patterns activates and synchronizes our brain regions and neural networks, allowing our minds to exist in a state of bliss comparable to that seen in psychedelic states.
Neuroscience is providing the "proof" that we can actively change our life through intentional practices.
Ancient mystics and Buddhist monks have actually understood the power of such mechanisms to alter our perception of reality.
I've said since my undergrad years that we would see religion/magic become one with science. As our technologies matures, we can now demonstrate in real-time the basis of what once was considered woo woo in Western Medicine.
Eastern practices which were developed by personal experience over thousands of years are now able to be tested and understood, and hence will become more mainstream and acceptable over the coming years.
Our Western medicine has little to offer for the treatment of pain like we experience daily as Arachnoiditis sufferers.
In the 16 years that I have worked to find effective treatments to share with our community, very few novel treatments/medications have come on board.
We still suggest the 3 component protocol developed by Tennant, which has largely remained the same over all this time, (with change being mostly based on new supplements, peptides etc). We have only been able to fiddle around the edges without having significant new impact in our daily lives.
( Our biggest successes as a community has been the knowledge of how to shut off the adhewive process with steroid treatment; acute onset Arachnoiditis can be treated if the damage is diagnosed properly within about the first 3 months after injury). Even this observation has not been tested by science.
So I've spent time considering non medical approaches to ease our daily suffering, help us regain our energy and motivation and increase the quality of our lives.
We at ACMCRN have been hosting Peer Event presentations on mindfulness training, pain psychology, and chronic illness like coaching beginning in the spring of this year. (See www.acmcrn.org/event-list)
So, I am taking a big jump here and sharing with you this interesting video on a Breathworks practice used by monks for centuries...
We need to use every tool we can find to create our comfort and have a better quality of life.
There is no single bullet. We must layer our tools on top of each other to make positive changes that we can actually feel. #arachnoiditis #painrelief
