When I have a bad day, somehow the theory goes out the window. I have had a night of zero sleep due to pain and I am so stressed about the day ahead. I need to plan to make it positive however I don't feel able to do that at the moment. I would like to hear from others as to what I should do today. Jenny
Hi Coralie,
I have developed a few strategies. I have a bath with my beautiful bath salts, take Milly for a mindful walk, attend my plants (I have made a rainforest in a conservatory attached to the house. my ferns are huge and the room smells like the rainforest. Outside the windows are tree ferns that are bursting with new fronds and are simply magnificent) and then I watch a funny DVD. I like the 'IT Crowd' and have a good laugh at that. In the 'rainforest' I have orchids attached to the larger ferns and they have just finished flowering. I have about thirty hanging plants and they are a bit wild, but that's how I love them. I will do my yearly check of each one soon when Doug can get some down for me. I can't do this on my own. I also put on my South American pan flute music as I spent a wonderful time in Caracas,Venezuela in the late seventies. In that time, about 18 months, we spent the time scuba diving in the Caribbean and travelling through the Orinoco and Amazon, hence my love of rainforest. It was a the best time of my life. It affected me greatly. I'd love to go back. This was a time I had no pain and life was so free. No kids!! However my kids are keen to go back and as they are both avid travellers, they will go I'm sure. It is not as safe as it was then, but since they have already travelled through the Middle East, Asia and Africa already, I think they'll be fine. Anyway, that is a short list of my strategies. Quest for Life affected me greatly and I am so pleased I went. I intend to come back in a year or so when I can save up. It's hard to get there on a pension, but I am determined to not let it go. Coralie, I believe so strongly that you are doing a wonderful thing for chronic pain sufferers and I hope that you can influence government to look after us. Wouldn't it be good if the Quest for Life retreat was claimable on health insurance? I'd be there twice a year at least. It's a pity I live so far away. You area an amazing person to do what you do and a lot of it in your own time. We need someone like you!! Thankyou so very much. XX By the way the website looks great with the changes. Jenny
