I have been learning, yes I am OLDish, but one thing I can tell you is KEEP LEARNING!
Learn something new every single day, I do, and if I can most people can to some extent. Just because you may be suffering in silence almost every day from something like Fibromyalgia does not mean you can't learn some ways to overcome the pain.
I've learned Self-Hypnosis and let me tell you that it took no time at all to get the hang of it!
Now, when the pain is still there after my allotted pills have been ingested, I can sit back and relax and let the pain slowly slip away. You may not know how good this can feel if you've never had to put up with some debilitating illness.
I can compare it to sliding into a warm pool on a cool night or finding that for the last 10 minutes you have been "OUT-THERE" concentrating on some thought (daydreaming) so much you get rudely awakened to hear "...are you listening to me?"
It is no more than that really, some people have made it seem like you have no control over your own mind but that couldn't be further from the truth. You cannot lose your control of your mind while doing this, because you have to concentrate on what you aim to do (reduce pain!).
