Fibromyalgia Podcast®17 Mars 2020

Your World Revolves Around Your Healing, Not Your Illness

In this episode, Tami talks about the subtle difference between focusing on your fibromyalgia and focusing on your healing. In your brain, you have a reticular activating system (RAS). Your RAS is the gatekeeper for information entering your brain and tells you what you should pay attention to. When you keep thinking of all the ways your fibromyalgia is impeding your life, all you see are more ways fibromyalgia is impeding your life. If you can make the mental shift to focus on ways you can heal, your RAS will start seeing more opportunities to feel better.

Key Points

Fibromyalgia is simply where we're starting. It's where we are right now, but that's not what the focus is. The focus is on where we're going: healing.
What we focus on is going to grow and be pulled into our lives.
There's a very big difference between thinking, "I can't because of my illness" and "I'm choosing not to so that I can feel my best tomorrow."
It's less about what you can't do and more about what you can do. It's about moving you on that journey towards feeling better

Links & Resources

Get free copies of Tami's books here
Visit FibroWorkshop.com to discover this month's free FibroWorkshop taught LIVE by Tami.
The Monkey Business Illusion video
How To Make Stress Your Friend, Kelly McGonigal, TEDGlobal 2013
Jenni Grover (ChronicBabe): How to be Resilient by Being Creative, Invisible Not Broken, Chronic Illness Podcast Network

Other Episodes Mentioned

Episode 2, Your Body Isn't The Enemy
Episode 3, How Fibromyalgia Became My Friend
Episode 9, The Fine Art of Self-Care
Episode 13, How To Add More Joy To Your Life
Episode 24, Practicing Gratitude with Fibromyalgia
Episode 29, Fall In Love With Your Fibromyalgia Body with Janet Farnsworth
Episode 31, Creative Resilience with ChronicBabe, Jenni Grover

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