Today I’m talking about 5 ways to help head issues and a few ways to look at head pain differently. Is your headache just a “normal” headache? Or is your body trying to tell you something? Here are 5 kinds of head issues:
“Normal” headache with pain that follows the line of pain like a band around your head:
This area can include tension and stress from wearing “Rose-colored glasses”, which means that you aren’t looking at a situation in a realistic state. Instead, you may be seeing a situation more positive than it actually is.
For example: being in an abusive relationship:
Example: Staying in a bad job:
And many more examples of how we can ignore what is happening in our lives.
Your mind might act like everything is fine, but your body is not happy, not safe, not willing to take this anymore, and starts to retaliate to how you ignore what is right in front of you.
How your body reacts:
Sometimes, with chronic headaches, all the “right” things won’t help. Then, when you change your circumstances, your headache magically goes away.
It’s not always this easy, and not always related to your emotional environment, but pay attention to your daily surroundings and how your BODY is responding to this environment.
When your body feels like it has the support it needs, then your headaches (or other pain) could get worse. This is a great sign that you can, in fact, get better. But, this cycle is often misunderstood.
When we clench our jaw or grind our teeth, this can cause headaches, neck pain, and of course, jaw pain.
How our body reacts:
How to relax your jaw, massage it like it shows in this video.
Our eyes are over used and need some TlC.
This is for pain in the sinus cavity that comes up through the face areas, like the cheek bones and around our nose and eyes.
If you have pain on the back and bottom of your skull where the skull meets the neck, you can try some of these techniques to stop the pain:
When you are having an ear infection, ear pain, too much ear wax, hearing issues, try these ideas: - Place forefingers into the ear, just barely, and resting just above the ear lobe.
