I Hate Loser Mentality and You Should Hate It Too!
Ever since I got my migraine diagnosis in 1994, I have furiously hated one thing more than anything in the migraine care world. That's a loser mentality, nurturing it, and spreading it. You have to be highly ethical and speak no-nonsense, even though the truth sometimes tends to hurt. But, having a loser mentality and spreading that nonsense around to people who are in great need of high-quality care in the form of effective treatment and support.
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Barb Wire Example
Let me twist the barbed wire example about that loser mentality. "Follow this avoid list to manage your migraines" or "Managing migraines..." Those are the words for losing. If you have the mentality to lose the whole thing, you don't put your mind, brains, and body to work. "Take a pill, wish, hope, and pray" is not a treatment; it's not working for the good of your health. I'm not sorry to break the news to those of you who think that there's some magic trick in whatever form that would save you from migraines. There is no magic trick or tricks. Let me ask you a question. This, by the way, I ask all my migraine patients and coaching clients: "Do you brush your teeth twice a day on a daily basis?" I do hope you are also nodding your head over there and say out loud, “Of course!”
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The Impact of Migraine
Each and every time you have a migraine attack, you are facing a negative impact as if you had been sparring against a professional mixed martial arts fighter while you're an amateur. Regardless of what type of migraine you have, migraine with aura or migraine without aura, during the peak of the migraine attack, your muscles close to the brain are suffering a severe negative impact. Those muscles get very tense. Another negative impact is that muscles all over the body face a huge lack of stamina to work. This is probably due to a declined oxygen level. This feature would be great to test for a large enough number of migraine patients, just to make a damn point to the so-called big shots. The third thing is a higher than normal heartbeat rate the day after the migraine attack.
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Who The Hell Is This Guy Talking Like That?
Where do I get the nerve and balls to talk like this about migraine and migraine care? Well, my migraine specialist care was launched by my own migraine in autumn 1994. I wasn't happy with the migraine care options, and the whole thing stank to me big time. My whole career was ahead of me, and so was my whole life. I wasn't ready to raise my hands and let my whole life fall into the "hands" of migraine. At the worst season when constant migraine attacks were bothering me, migraine attacks were coming on daily basis. I started to run all kinds of crazy and often torturing tests over the years to find a clear-as-a-bell picture of migraine as a disease from all possible angles. At the same time, I started to test and discover the best manual treatment options. Over 29 years later, I have treated thousands of people, done over 40,000 manual treatments for people from almost all continents. I have developed four migraine treatment methods. The latest, Migraine Rapid Peregrine? (for acute migraine), is becoming available this month. The migraine self-care method in its current form has been used since 2016. I keep track and keep pushing my migraine clients to be winners instead of losers. I can say from strong experience, they love that! Nobody wants to be a loser!
From Migraine Slaves to Migraine Survivors
I never get tired of seeing the sparkle in people's eyes when they discover that they can really start to take care of their health themselves and not be slaves to migraines. Once they start to feel better in the first phase, usually during the second and third week, that spark develops into a newborn person who is smiling and laughing and keeps asking questions. One of those questions is always, "How is this possible? It's amazing!" I always reply, "Yeah, well, it's been a long road and a tough one, but here we are."
When a new migraine client has reached the level where migraine attacks don't appear anymore, it's magical. But there's no magic. It's just the person's personal effort and winner mentality equipped with a functional care method. An important point I want to make at this moment: if you have the tendency to have migraine attacks, you have that. I have that too, even though I don't have migraine attacks. How do I know this? We all are humans, and one of our screwed-up features is that we all fall into the nasty trap of being too lazy sometimes. Another one is pushing the boundaries of working too much from time to time. If you fall into those two nasty traps at the same time, voilà, it usually takes two to four weeks to start feeling the results of being lazy.
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The Secret of Successful Migraine Self-Care
So, the formula for successful migraine self-care and clinical care is the right tools. For migraine self-care, another crucial tool is to adopt the same system as keeping teeth healthy and shiny: taking care of them on a daily basis! I'm going to tell you a secret. Once you don't have a need for intensive migraine self-care anymore, the amount of time you need to spend daily to maintain the great status (i.e., migraine attacks missing from your life) is minimal. Fifteen to twenty minutes used for self-care daily is the most common time usage among my clients. Here comes another great news: that 15-20 minutes is divided into 2-3 slots. Then it's hyper-effective, and you don't fall into the laziness trap.
The best part of migraine self-care, alongside the minimal time needed for it, is that it's hyper-easy to use. Even cold therapy becomes easy when you follow the guidelines. It's good to make a point that the purpose of cold therapy is not to turn people into Wim Hof-type extreme athletes. However, I have witnessed that a few of my clients have gone way above and beyond what is necessary to have great health, keep migraines away, and enjoy life. A few ladies I have helped over the years have turned themselves into true "ice ladies," enjoying lengthy icy water swimming sessions and showers. I personally use cold therapy twice a day and sometimes treat myself with a third session. I have used breathing techniques since 9th grade. I use compression treatment more rarely. However, since last summer, when I started to write heavily, I've been using compression treatment more often to make sure that I don't fall into harm's way and start having problems.
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Do you want to start a journey of turning yourself into a migraine survivor instead of being a slave to migraines? Reach out to me. I would also appreciate it if you mentioned my newsletter to your loved ones and friends who are suffering from migraines.