AN A-Z OF EMOTIONAL PAIN: MISERY
One of our most necessary emotions is laughter, as without it life would be a long, hard, miserable road. In the brain, laughter releases the hormones of happiness called ‘endorphins’. These increase your desire to live which actually helps you heal. Life is worth living when there’s room for humour. Often it takes a conscious effort to decide to see the funny side of things. If you decide not to be amused, you diminish your life force.
You have to find out what makes you happy. Like yawning, laughter is contagious. Try making faces in a mirror, using all thirteen muscles needed for laughing. It will help to put you in the right frame of mind.
Your thoughts are important, too. If your little voice inside insists on thinking sad, depressed thoughts, then life can be difficult and tiring. This is why Norman Cousins wrote his book, Anatomy of an Illness. He had a severe spinal arthritis and found that, together with massive doses of vitamin C, laughter lessened his pain. While doing everything possible to get well, he was determined that his positive attitude would help him to not succumb to ankylosing spondylosis. He hired lots of humorous movies, gave himself a daily dose of fun and eventually recovered.
When a patient comes to me to be dragged out of the ‘miseries’, I usually decide acupuncture is the therapy. Invariably there is a deficiency of the fire energy in the channels and it is usually a simple matter to correct this imbalance. Olive and clematis are both Bach Flower remedies helpful for this condition.
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