Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
Feeling good part l http://blog.myclub100.co.uk/treatments/feeling-good-part-l/
Give me a scale of 1 -10. 1 being no pain and 10 being agony. This is often how I will evaluate your pain. Physical or otherwise. Outside of being a personal trainer, reflexologist, hypnotherapist I’m currently doing a post grad in Psychotherapy; How you feel matters to me. Without you telling me how you feel I can’t help you. Knowing you have a potential to take in information( i.e. pain) in a certain way helps me understand how either in a physical or an emotional way we can help reduce this pain.
Theories on Personality
Freud’s close friend who then split from him in the early 1900’s developed a theory that was actually so strong it still survives today in the corporate world. The Myers Briggs test is a test of personality, whether you’re a thinker, feeler, intuiter or sensor. They’ve also thrown in 2 more for good measure. This test was taken from Carl Jung; A brilliant individual who created a model for how our personalities were and how we took in information.
This model also allowed us to see how we bring balance in our personalities. Have you done anything recently out of character? Or maybe seen someone do something and said ‘that’s so out of character for them’. Carl would say that’s your personality levelling itself out – in plain English I guess we can only take so much before we can hold ourselves together and give into our enough’s, enough phase.
So back to feeling good
I firmly believe that to begin to have any influence upon you, one must understand yourself. We are all guilty of projecting our guilt of whatever on others. I recently heard a story of a family member speaking to a sibling about drinking too much. It worked out only 2 days later during a lunch hour the same sibling asked for a sip of their coffee, after being met with resistance it worked out the individual was sporting a nifty snifter in the said beverage. Sometimes we need to displace our feelings of righteousness; we may often hate in others what we really hate in ourselves – that’s the truth.
My favourite saying in psychology is from Freud. We must appreciate that above whatever we may think of his theories, they still hold up today, and without his thoughts it’s unlikely the subject would have developed – period.
Freud believed in symbolism. Trains going into tunnels, long cucumbers the works. After delivering to his peers in Vienna one from the many in the crowd stood up and asked Freud about his rather long and thick cigar. His reply? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. This I believe to be true. So yes, self analysis is good but sometimes things just are they way they are, you don’t have to dig deep or tell me about your parents.
Scoring goals
There is no doubt though, that achieving, no matter on what level is the way to go when it comes to happiness. No I don’t mean that you have to make that last £50k before the month’s end. I mean any achievement. In the recent radio 4 program of am I normal they looked on the effects of aging. One in particular was the smug factor. This is where you actually felt you were doing better than your peers. Another was how they felt they aged. There were some that placed a mark on when they would be old – and of course would then begin to feel the associated agony that was attuned to the aging process. There were also some that moved the goal posts. These guys did very well indeed when it came to aging. They said ‘yeah 60’s old’ they got to 60 and said ’hell no this isn’t old, maybe 70’s old, I ll go for that’. The funny thing about these guys is they kept moving the goals posts and of course they did very well when it came to aging and feeling happier.
Get me some socks
With this in mind, I ll share you a secret. One that’s about me. In order to help keep the flow of order in my life, to help my family in the ways I could, I would give my Nan little missions. This would range from one pair of specific nike socks to a random/any lumberjack jackets. To this day I still have a wide selection of both and my Nan is 90 and looks after her own 3 bedroom house. Nan has osteo and rheumatoid arthritis. Both are affected by movement and if you move less you’re hammered. Most of the main joints are synovial and react in a similar way to oiling an engine – you have to move it, this allows it the joints to lube up. Your immune system has been shown is so many studies (recently in the new scientist laughter is the best medicine) that laughing reduces cholesterol and blood pressure, infact it performs better than exercise! So does Nan owe this longevity to my socks? I think not…..But a mission accomplished is always a way to feel good about yourself and when you do something for others, you forget about yourself just for a moment and sometimes that’s not a bad thing.
In feeling good lll, we ll look at the process in how to reduce these pains of rheumatoid, migraines and fibromyalgia. It will require an open mind, but if you’re reading this then I know you already have one.
The lumber jacked, Nike wearing sock man
Ewan
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