Spiritual and Psychological
CFS Self Help

CFS Self Help follows on from: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Spirituality.

Please also see advice for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Self Help on the page on Recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.

NB. The advice on this page is useful for living with any chronic illness.

Contents List for THIS ARTICLE on spiritual and psychological self help:

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• Explore your spirituality and psychology
• Raise self worth
• Decide to stay alive to the best of your ability
• Find a pastime not related to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or to seeking health
• Learn to feel your feelings and express them safely
• Read books that provide CFS self help
• Forgiveness Exercises - The Release
• Self therapy - explore your shadow self
• Self Therapy. Change your thoughts to change your world!
• SHARE your own story with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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• Meditation - now called mindfulness and now widely used as psychological self help. Dr Grayson talks about his new healing self help book and the importance of overcoming self limiting beliefs on the journey to healing illness
• NLP - making beliefs and thoughts work for us

Explore your spirituality and psychology - CFS Self Help

When I got ill, I decided to explore spiritual and psychological approaches for CFS self help.

I figured the more at peace I felt, the more energy my body would have available to heal.

This approach took a long time to bear the fruit of physical healing. And I continue to live with chronic illness today. Yet, I have no regrets and continue with this approach. Why?

Because I feel I am always growing. Even when my world has been as small as a room, my world has, in some ways, been BIG.

Raise self worth. Use affirmations. Be willing to experience God's love.

No matter how ill you are now, you are OK.

Whether you recover or not, you are OK.

Your worth is not defined by your health.
Your worth is not defined by what you can do or by how nice you can be.
You are inherently worthy.

To have a spiritual belief is a huge advantage here.

Many of us base our worth on what we can do.

But, if you believe in a benevolent, all-powerful God or Presence, and you believe this creative force has something to do with you being here, then you are part of something greater than yourself and you have value.

As someone said: "God doesn't do waste." If you are here you are meant to be here.

Decide to stay alive

It took extreme discipline to stay alive with very severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and inadequate care.

I did not have a day off being a carer (for myself) in 14 years.
I did not have a day off being ill - in physical pain and distress - for 17 years.

Death was tempting.

An important part of my CFS self help was to make a decision to stay alive to the best of my ability.

I made a decision to keep physically fighting (whilst I also worked towards spiritual surrender.)
When I realised I wasn't fully choosing life, I worked with an affirmation from the Bible: I choose life.
This was important both to my survival and my recovery.

Find a suitable pastime

It may be easier said than done, but as part of CFS self help it is important to find a pastime that is not related to the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or to seeking health, and which can be done within the limits of the illness.

I started receiving guidance in the form of poems and thought-bites.

Dictating, editing and reading these poems sustained me.

It was something that did not have to be done and did not have to be done well, so it was easier to pace myself than with many other activities.

I did not know if my spiritual poems would be seen by anyone else, but now my small book Be Loved Beloved is published on kindle.

Click to read Katherine T Owen's poems on the website.

One of the gifts of living with Severe CFS was that the spiritual journey became my priority. It continues to be my priority now I live with less severe illness.

Click here to read about Pastimes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / ME.

Commit to feeling your feelings and expressing them safely

Whilst living with very severe CFS, my speech was limited. I also didn't have anyone I could speak to honestly about how bad things were. However, I used a dictaphone to get my thoughts out. And I used my Disability benefits to pay a typist.

• For more about feeling your feelings as part of the process of CFS self help or learning to live with any illness, see “Am I Allowed To Feel Angry? What Are The Benefits Of Feeling My Anger?”
• The page on feeling your anger is part of a series of pages on the the 7 Stages of grief we go through in learning to cope with a loss of health.
• To read about techniques to feel your feelings, go to EFT technique or to The Journey Process.

Read books that nurture you

When Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome at such a severe level, I could read for only a few minutes at a time out of an hour.
This was still enough to work my way, over the years, through many wonderful books on psychology and spirituality.

Forgiveness Exercises - The Release

I set out to use my own forgiveness exercise of releasing judgement as a way to find the gift within problems - problems that seemed far from being gifts!!!

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Self Therapy

A commitment to looking at your shadow self

As human beings we suppress a lot of feelings, memories and hidden beliefs about ourselves. This takes energy.

When living with a severe chronic illness which leads to a lack of energy, you may find yourself becoming aware of this shadow self.

You may choose to set out to feel the feelings and bring awareness to the memories and hidden beliefs. 

Of course, it also takes energy to look at your feelings, memories and beliefs. And it is not ideal that you do so when living with CFS /M.E.. But, as you know, life is sometimes not ideal.

If stuff comes up, it comes up.
Long term, as part of my CFS self help, it took less energy for me to look at this stuff than to live with it.

Now I am in better health, I still have a commitment to looking at the shadow self when it makes itself known.
Each time I "embrace" the shadow, it brings healing in another area of my life and I walk on with a little more joy.

Self Therapy. The World As A Projection Of Our Thoughts

Most of my therapy has been self therapy.

Self therapy becomes an obvious possibility if you accept the belief (included in A Course In Miracles) that the world is a projection of our thoughts.

If you don't like what you see, you may choose for that to be the next "thought" you explore and work to change.

The idea that the world is a projection of our thoughts is discussed a little in the section on Do Our Beliefs Create Our Reality?

And if the idea that our beliefs create our reality is already familiar to you, some of the quotes on Are We All Atheists? may be of interest.

Go here for the definition of non duality.
Non duality is the belief that God's Love is the reality and the world is an illusion.

• Click here to read CFS /M.E. Is a Physical Illness. 
• Click here to visit my new website www.HealingCFSME.com and learn practical life skills for health management when living with CFS /Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/M.E

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