| If I had to pick just one very best treatment for | | | | This feeling of 'stretching a brick wall' actually means |
| fibromyalgia, I would pick stretching. Stretching is the | | | | that the tissues that are being focused on REALLY |
| one thing that I did from the beginning and I still do | | | | need to be stretched but they are probably full of |
| now (now that I have cured fibromyalgia). In fact, it's | | | | stress chemicals and maybe scar tissue and so will |
| the only thing that I never felt a loss of interest or a | | | | take a while to release and let go and clear. This |
| feeling of 'this has taken me as far as it can go' like I | | | | does not mean to stretch them more aggressively. |
| did with so many other things I tried. | | | | When stretching to cure fibromyalgia, always stretch |
| The problem with stretching as a treatment for | | | | with a very low intensity. I like to say that if 10 is |
| fibromyalgia is many times, when someone first tries | | | | the most intense stretch ever and 0 is no stretch, |
| to stretch they come up against the feeling that | | | | the first time you stretch a tissue, you should be at |
| they are 'stretching a brick wall' - meaning nothing is | | | | no more than a 2, and later times never go past a 3 |
| moving, there's no sensation, or it feels painful or | | | | or a 4 until you are cured of fibromyalgia - then you |
| difficult. So, they abandon stretching thinking it | | | | can do whatever your body says is OK. |
| doesn't work or is not what their body needs. | | | | |