Emotional Obstacles to Natural Pain Relief

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

April 25th, 2008 • Leave a Comment

This morning I woke up thinking about emotional obstacles to natural pain relief. Why, I wondered, haven't I successfully been utilizing my bag o' tricks for healing? Namely...
  • converting pain energy into raw energy, converting that raw energy into healing energy, then feeding that healing energy back into the place of pain - thus recycling pain to heal itself
  • facilitating energetic communication (affirmations
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The Fusion of Dance, Writing, and Healing: Meet Dancing with Pain’s New Assistant Editor

By: Rachel , Assistant Editor, Dancing with Pain®

April 24th, 2008 • 1 Comment

My love affair with dancing began at the tender age of three. My mother had enrolled my older sister in a ballet/tap dance lesson twice a week to buy herself some down time. On a Wednesday afternoon too busy for my mother to prioritize rationally, she decided to pick me up from daycare before my sister. Walking through the corridors of the dance school, waiting for my sister's lesson to be over, I caught sight of a door ...
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Spiral Downward into Depression

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

April 21st, 2008 • 2 Comments

My day would start off the same every morning: I would wake up, feel the pain in my body, remember the direct or indirect medical negligence that led to my condition, feel angry at the health care practitioners involved, feel powerless over my life, feel hopeless about ever healing, and spiral downward into depression. Good morning! Sometime in 2004, I named this occurrence "spinning." When I was in it, I couldn't for the life of me remember ...
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Natural Pain Relief: A Few Questions for Ya

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

April 17th, 2008 • 1 Comment

It has now been exactly two months since I sent this blog out into the universe. To date, I have written on, and have invited guest bloggers to write on, a fairly diverse range of topics related to chronic pain and natural pain relief. Now I've got a few questions for ya:
  • What topics do you want to hear more about, and is there a specific angle that most interests you?
  • Do you prefer first-person writing, or
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    Ass-Kicking Exercise Support Group

    By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

    April 16th, 2008 • 1 Comment

    For me, lying horizontal for hours and hours throughout the night is just about the worst thing that my body can do. So I generally start off my day stiff, hurting, crabby, and therefore, anxious. Invariably, however, when I open up my chronic pain toolbox and pull out what it takes to get me going in the morning (nutritious food, caffeine blast, hot shower), my body loosens up, my pain levels drop, and my bubbly spirit returns. The ...
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