MIND OVER MATTER?

carola

Good Morning my Friends

I hope you are all having a decent day today?

I managed to get out at the weekend to a Mind, Body & Soul Fayre which was fab as I love all the hippy dippy things and discovered a Chinese Medicine Practitioner who I am hooking up with.

Anyway, I bought a Dream Catcher just 'cos it looked so pretty and Dog the Bounty Hunter has lots.

I hung it up in my bedroom and then whilst waiting for sleep I thought positive thoughts that I would have a good sleep with lovely dreams full of boxer dogs and bulldogs

For the last 2 nights I slept for 7 hours straight through - woo hoo!

I realise that the Dream Catcher was like a positive thinking placebo - whatever works works! Just wondering what everyone else uses that works sometimes?

Have a grrrreat day my Friends.
Keep smiling, Carol

dreamdaisy

I agree with you on one thing: the mind is a powerful instrument. You can convince yourself of anything if you work hard enough at it! I hope your dreamcatcher continues to work for you - I have one too, a gift from a pupil many years ago, and it does look pretty. That's all I can say!

How's the diet going carola? What have you re-introduced - and did anything cause further upset? And what about the laptop - fixed yet? I hope you are OK today - you sound your usual, cheery and above all, positive self! DD

julie47

Hi carol

good luck with the alternative medicine, I often go past a shop called Dr Herbs but am too much of a wimp to go in.

Dare buy a dream catcher though Might look out for one if it will or could help me sleep. They are pretty, daughter had one once. Don't know where i is now.

Glad you slept long hours bet you feel tonnes better for it.

(do you think it would catch OH snores and throw them back at him)

Keep up the pos thinking
JuliePF x

dreamdaisy

I'm the snoring warthog in this household! DD

carola

Hi DD

Laptop still playing up and getting nowhere with the maker so it is still driving me around the bend with the screen - sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.

The nutrition side is going great. Difficult for the first few weeks to get used to being organised and imaginative using wholefoods. I really miss good old stick to your insides white bread haha.

Have reintroduced fish alot and with no negative results likewise with chicken. I have eaten my tasty stew with red meat once and I saw no difference with joints and pain either. Have totally cut out wheat and all the nasty stuff like sweets, crisps, cake, fizzy juice, red bull etc. I had a can of red bull recently to see what happens and my hands ballooned. Have lost a bit of weight and will happily stay off the nasty foodstuffs nae bother!

My steriods help me greatly although I do not like the way they puff up my face every second day however that in turn gives me cheekbones on alternate days and makes me smile
Hope all is good in DD land.
Keep smiling, Carol

carola

delboy wrote:

Please be careful with Chinese medicines as some can be harmful.

Hi Delboy

Thanks for the warning. Yep, I've heard that too.

I'm doing a course of cupping, massage etc with her as I am not clued up on chinese potions crossing with all my toxic meds.

Thanks again.
Carol

carola

Hi Julie

Aye, I am lovin' my Dreamcatcher - I grab onto anything that'll remind me to keep the positive thinking up.

Good luck with OH's snoring

dorcas

Hi Carol

loved your positive post!

I've not bought or tried a dreamcatcher but if it helps you to sleep then good for you!

I use a relaxation technique to help me get into the right frame of mind and body to fall asleep (that and the Amatriptyline )

Iris xxx

ps. hope you're having a good day too!!

angel1

Carol, if I need reminding to stay positive, I just read your lovely posts. I`m a great believer in having a "Get up and Go" attitude, and you have one, in spades!.......Ange.x.

barbara12

Hi Carol
If it works for you that is great, the mind is so powerful , what you are doing is putting it to good use.
When you think of placebo medicines, this is the same, you carry on believing, and feeling relaxed.
Love
Barbara xx

hileena111

Love
HileenaHi
I'm a bit wary about dabbling in chinese medicine but the dream catcher sounds harmless and very helpful if it works for you.
I try relaxation exercise before I drift off.
I do believe in placebos...sounds a contradiction in terms LOL
I always think back to the time I nursed people with Learning Difficulties and I was doing night duty on a very mentally disabled ward.
They couldnt really speak etc......anyway one lady had a sleeping tablet every night and it got crushed up for her and put on a teaspoon.
One night {as a student } I was doing the drug round and her evening tablet had been marked off by mistake.....even though it was obvious it was a mistake staff nurse wouldnt let me give her one. She screamed and screamed and screamed......when the staff nurse's back was turned I found an extra strong peppermint in my bag, put it on a spoon and crushed it and gave it to her.....she was out like a light in a few minutes Shows the power of a placebo
Sorry went a bit off topic there but whats new for me