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Episode 44: Five Ways To Heal The Head


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Five Ways To Help Your Head

Today I’m talking about 5 ways to help head issues and a few ways to look at head pain differently. Is your headache just a “normal” headache? Or is your body trying to tell you something? Here are 5 kinds of head issues:

 

Headache #1: The Low Headband Head Pain

“Normal” headache with pain that follows the line of pain like a band around your head:

  • All the way around your head and face
  • Covering your eyes
  • Above your ears
  • Along your temples
  • Including your occiput area (where your skull meets your neck)
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    What this COULD mean:

    This area can include tension and stress from wearing “Rose-colored glasses”, which means that you aren’t looking at a situation in a realistic state. Instead, you may be seeing a situation more positive than it actually is.

    For example: being in an abusive relationship:

    • You see the person as being good for you
    • Even though they hurt you or ignore you
    • You make excuses for them
    • And you stay, even though you feel deeply that you should leave
    • Example: Staying in a bad job: 

      • You ignore the bad behavior around you
      • You stay with poor pay and/or poor behavior for too long
      • You make excuses for not leaving
      • And many more examples of how we can ignore what is happening in our lives.

         

        Our Physical Response:

        Your mind might act like everything is fine, but your body is not happy, not safe, not willing to take this anymore, and starts to retaliate to how you ignore what is right in front of you.

        How your body reacts:

        • Eyes and head/neck look away from the situation
        • Eyes squint
        • Jaw clamps down
        • Stop breathing
        • Sometimes, with chronic headaches, all the “right” things won’t help. Then, when you change your circumstances, your headache magically goes away.

          It’s not always this easy, and not always related to your emotional environment, but pay attention to your daily surroundings and how your BODY is responding to this environment.

           

          Gets Worse When You Are Ready To Heal:

          When your body feels like it has the support it needs, then your headaches (or other pain) could get worse. This is a great sign that you can, in fact, get better. But, this cycle is often misunderstood.

           

          Headpain #2: Jaw Pain

          When we clench our jaw or grind our teeth, this can cause headaches, neck pain, and of course, jaw pain.

          How our body reacts:

          • When angry, we can tighten the jaw
          • When thinking and concentrating, we can tighten the jaw
          • Jaw tight = better thinking
          • How to relax your jaw, massage it like it shows in this video.

             

            Headache #3: Eye Pain

            Our eyes are over used and need some TlC.

            1. Massage for eye pain in this video!
            2. Do a cross current point hold on areas of pain:
              • Right occiput (under skull @ neck) with Left eye point, inside the left eye socket
              • Left occiput with right eye point, inside the right eye socket
              • Put pressure on both
              • Then press one, then the other
              • Teeter on them, with pressure on one, off the other, and switch
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                Headache #4: Sinus Pain

                This is for pain in the sinus cavity that comes up through the face areas, like the cheek bones and around our nose and eyes.

                • Massage around the cheek bones
                • Press down on points along the cheek bones
                • Find tender spots and keep pressure on those points for 10-30 seconds
                • Don't cause too much pain
                • Tapping on the cheek bones, finger bent, hit the knuckle with your other finger
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                  Headache #5: Occiput Pain

                  If you have pain on the back and bottom of your skull where the skull meets the neck, you can try some of these techniques to stop the pain:

                  • Gently press finger-tips up underneath the skull
                  • Rock your neck back to get the most pressure on this area
                  • Don’t hurt yourself, or cause too much pain
                  • Stay steady on a point for 10 seconds, then release pressure and repeat
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                    Bonus: Ear Pain

                    When you are having an ear infection, ear pain, too much ear wax, hearing issues, try these ideas: - Place forefingers into the ear, just barely, and resting just above the ear lobe.

                    • With the pressure of holding a chip without cracking it, pull very gently and slowly
                    • Pull down towards your feet
                    • Pull long enough to feel it pulling inside your ear
                    • Release gently and carefully
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                      Your Body AdvocateBy Ruth Cummings

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