It\u2019s now over ten weeks since i started meditating and the same length of time since i felt the need to take an opiate painkiller. To say i am over the moon about it is a huge understatement, I didn\u2019t realise how bad they were making me feel until i stopped taking them. The thing is, there is so much more to meditation and I\u2019m only just scratching the surface but learning every day. I can honestly say i have not missed a day since my first visit to the Dunsborough women\u2019s meditation circle, it may not be for very long, often only 10 to 15 minutes but somehow it\u2019s doing the trick and I\u2019m slowly getting better at it.<\/p>\n
My GP said it would allow me to have a different relationship with the pain and to be honest I didn\u2019t really understand what she meant but ten weeks on and i think i now get it. The pain is probably still there (the swelling certainly is!) but i can now acknowledge it but not let it get in the way. The mind is such a powerful thing if you are open minded enough to give it a try, I\u2019m not sure i would have been a few years ago but the whole transition thing has certainly opened my eyes to a lot of things.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow i am trying something else new, I\u2019m having a Reiki session, Denise had one a couple of weeks ago and said she felt it worthwhile so I\u2019m giving it a go. I\u2019ll report at a later date my thoughts on how it went. I\u2019m certainly looking forward to it!<\/p>\n
Watch this space!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s now over ten weeks since i started meditating and the same length of time since i felt the need to take an opiate painkiller. To say i am over the moon about it is a huge understatement, I didn\u2019t realise how bad they were making me feel until i stopped taking them. The thing … Continue reading “10 weeks and counting!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}