Rosacea and My So Called Life
"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others.Unfold your own myth."
---- Rumi
Be the author of your own life. Write your Rosacea Story. Keep a journal of how Rosacea is informing your life, what clues it is giving you in terms of how you are living your life, if you are living from your truth, if you are being authentic. I found my skin condition to be an incredibly accurate barometer of my true emotional state. Emotions and skin are closely connected, as any one who has been under stress will attest to those frisky little bumps that erupt on your complexion at the most inopportune times.
The most important tool in flare management is your story. It is invaluable in determining the underlying causes and patterns related to outbreaks. Most people actually feel better after expressing their emotions and thoughts in a journal. This daily exercise can help you be more aware of triggers and remind you of what works to alleviate symptoms.
Look back to the list of triggers when thinking about the day. Do you see a pattern? It is amazing how many thoughts and behaviors are unconscious. Exercise was a big one. I always assumed that exercise was great for your complexion. Not so for Rosacea. Overstimulation and overheating during my workouts was aggravating my skin. So I began exercising early in the morning or evening. Yoga was another surprise. I realized that all of those downward facing dogs were a disaster for my skin.
On my own rosacea journey, I was surprised to discover that my flare-ups were not only related to anxiety, stress and hormones, but to any exhuberant emotion. Anger, frustation and surprisingly, joyful excitement and yes, sex. At times I felt like just giving up. It seemed that everything I ate or did was a problem. The key was moderation. You have to learn to stay in the center, have a balanced lifestyle.
Acupuncturists ask what is going on in your life emotionally to understand your constitution. What appears to be happening on the surface is not always what is happening underneath. I found that while oftern I would appear happy, there really was a cover on a pot that was being to boil inside. When I began to go inward and examine my emotions, I realized that my rosecea was expressing my truth! I really was pissed off and not expressing it. Unexpressed emotions were literally boiling up to my skin!
By taking time everyday to meditate, to get in touch with myself by writing in my journal, I could begin to acknowledge and integrate emotions and feelings that were buried. By balancing my emotional state, I was also balancing my physical state. The mind body connection is so essential and tends to be overlooked in Western Medicine. Eastern medicine sees the body, mind and psyche as one.
"There is only one journey: going inside yourself."
----- Rainier Maria Rilke
posted by Fiona at 7:38 AM
2 Comments:
you know that makes so much sense, my nose has a few spots of rosacea that are begining to burn. it's true i have emotions and thoughts that are not being expressed, i have asparations to go and do the oneness process, its only a few thousand pounds and a bit of time out, but my family commitments and lack of support prevent me from doing it. I know it is only me that prevents me from doing it, but as of yet i haven't figured out how to make it possible, i just keep saying i will get to do it and i will if it is meant to be, but my burning spoty nose which until now has only been one spot that flares up when i'm stresssed is getting worse, since i had my oneness blessings and i felt like that was what i had been searching for all my life. it felt like a feeling i've know before a blissfull feeling of calmness a beautiful experience. a calling. I'm going to answer it and probably the secret is to stop wanting it so much and i just might be free enough to let it come into my life. all these thoughts fell into place reading your rosacea and my so called life. thank you so much. Namaste.. if anyone out there has about $10,000's spare I could use them for this purpose it is a buring desire to be able to pass the blessing on. is that my ego?? or just a compasion to do something great for mankind and be apart of this movement in helping raise the conscious of man kind. good willing its going to happen. mean while thankfully there are those who can afford to do it. sorry about any spelling its a weakness of mine. or a strength that prevents me from getting into a borring 9-5 job that would sufercate me, that said i'd do one until i had the money to do my oneness process.
you know that makes so much sense, my nose has a few spots of rosacea that are begining to burn. it's true i have emotions and thoughts that are not being expressed, i have asparations to go and do the oneness process, its only a few thousand pounds and a bit of time out, but my family commitments and lack of support prevent me from doing it. I know it is only me that prevents me from doing it, but as of yet i haven't figured out how to make it possible, i just keep saying i will get to do it and i will if it is meant to be, but my burning spoty nose which until now has only been one spot that flares up when i'm stresssed is getting worse, since i had my oneness blessings and i felt like that was what i had been searching for all my life. it felt like a feeling i've know before a blissfull feeling of calmness a beautiful experience. a calling. I'm going to answer it and probably the secret is to stop wanting it so much and i just might be free enough to let it come into my life. all these thoughts fell into place reading your rosacea and my so called life. thank you so much. Namaste.. if anyone out there has about $10,000's spare I could use them for this purpose it is a buring desire to be able to pass the blessing on. is that my ego?? or just a compasion to do something great for mankind and be apart of this movement in helping raise the conscious of man kind. good willing its going to happen. mean while thankfully there are those who can afford to do it. sorry about any spelling its a weakness of mine. or a strength that prevents me from getting into a borring 9-5 job that would sufercate me, that said i'd do one until i had the money to do my oneness process.
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