Migraine headaches can be quite a pain in your life. Symptoms often include blurred vision, stomach nausea and headache. Some folks become slightly dizzy as well. Also, there’s a version that’s called a “silent migraine” where it has all of the regular symptoms but without the actual headache (painless migraine).
Often, medication doesn’t help and therefore hundreds of people continue to live in discomfort. And, unfortunately, many of them have migraines more than once a week. Can you imagine that? What a nightmare!
Heads up here. If you are someone that get these terrible events, I suggest that you start tracking your diet. Note what foods you eat — without exception. Keep a daily tracking. Don’t miss. Then, when you experience a migraine, refer to your tracking chart and see if you can relate it to food. Over a period of time and a few migraines, you may spot a correlation and begin to solve the mystery of your migraines.
Chi kung is a powerful meditation to try as well. My experience with chi kung is that it is very effective in treating this annoying syndrome. When I work on someone that is experiencing a migraine, it almost always improves right on the spot. For me, there is no doubt that chi kung helps whether it is done on you by a practitioner or by you through a chi kung breathing exercise (meditations).
Here’s a chi kung meditation to try:
1) sit in a quiet place where you can take a moment and relax;
2) close your eyes
3) place your right hand over your right eye and place your left hand over your left ear
… keep both eyes closed and breathe rhythmically and slow …
4) continue for about five minutes (or longer as you like)
5) then, change your hands to reverse side — left hand on left eye, right hand on right ear
… again, keep both eyes closed and breathe rhythmically and slow …
6) continue for about five minutes (or longer as you like)
By the way, you can repeat this procedure more than once, as you desire. In my experience, it has always been beneficial. However, for some people, it might not work at all. It’s hard to figure why. Others may experience immediate relief and feel very restful. That’s always very exciting for me to hear. Note, there doesn’t seem to be any single answer to this affliction.
My suggestion is to do this exercise several times a day whether you have a migraine or not. I believe it’s possible to prevent some of your migraines by using the exercise as a sort of anti-migraine maintenance program. Look at it this way: it’s all benefit an no harm, at least as I see it. So, it’s worth a try.
Note: chi kung is an ancient healing art stemming from China. It is often front line treatment by Chinese doctors and hospitals.
