My friend Miss Fashionista unfortunately suffered Chronic Fatigue/ME to an incapacitating state. She suffered being bed ridden and even went blind at one point. Luckily she recovered her eyesight. Happily she has recovered and is in the 3rd year of her fashion degree and has just recently got engaged! She is a beautiful, bubbly person and very easy to talk to so who else better to ask than her when I got my diagnosis for CFS. She recommended Mikel therapy. She directed me to where she went for treatment and seeing as I know how unwell she was and the fact she is better now, I definitely trust her recommendation. Here is an excerpt from the website:
What does the therapy consist of:
| i) Education |
| Basically CFS is about getting stuck in what is called the 'fight or flight' mode . 'Fight or flight' describes a state of alarm and how the body reacts to it. In CFS it becomes permanent and self perpetuating. Circumstances that happened usually have a big part to play in the original onset. Ignorance and misunderstandings create further confusion and frustration. This is the self-perpetuating part of it. In the explanation of this I prefer to stick to a very basic and logical understanding of why people get CFS - using biological facts that are simple to follow. Then there is an exploration of what they might be doing that might prolong it. This is not a blame finding situation. (If you don't know the cause it is hard to know the cure.) Dr Mickel has developed a second strand of explanation. This is a streamlined, quantum physics, vibrational energy approach. Some people get along better with this and I can work with this if preferred, though I find that most understand the original explanations perfectly. In itself this map of understanding is sufficient for many people to take themselves back to happy functioning. |
| ii) Observation and Separation |
| There is much confusion as to what is a CFS symptom and what isn't. Some blame everything on the CFS. This is understandable. But so is the fact that if you took an athlete and put him in a cave for five years s/he would not be at their best when released. Many of the symptoms experienced in CFS are secondary to the effect of being in that cave. That is not CFS. More it is an expectable result from making demands on a de-conditioned body. CFS symptoms are generated by the 'alarm' centre. They arise when something is making your environment in some way uncomfortable. When you can see what causes these true symptoms you are in a position to start listening to what your body is trying to tell you. After understanding the principles of how the body reacts when alarmed, the second step is one of watching 'cause' and 'effect' What rings the alarm and what effect it has on you. This can be very different for different challenges. |
| iii) Action |
| Once you can observe you can predict and once you can predict you have control. The therapy at this stage is one of applying some simple universal applications to whatever it is that is setting off the alarm. Old habits can make this awkward to begin with. This has much to do with personal style and nature. A journal of symptoms is kept and gone through in the sessions to bring skill to the handling of these changes. |
| iv) Parallel re-conditioning to generate natural physical health without fear of 'relapse'. |
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