Keep trying until you find a place to dance! Yoga might be good too with a good teacher. Although I have been healthy for my whole life, and don't consider myself terribly anxiety prone, this conversation is helpful to me and makes me think of my big medical scare in 2006 when abnormal cells were found in my uterus. I did not get a second opinion, it scared me, and I immediately did as the doctor who gave me a complete hysterectomy advised (she bagged another surgery). In retrospect I believe these precancerous cells were a ramification of being in a poor emotional state which I had just tried to resolve by leaving my job, and was in between things. Now I am in a similar situation (considered leaving job), as I've had chronic pain for the first time in my life (along sciatic nerve) and my blood pressure has gone up (used to be low). I feel like I am on the right track now, and had absolutely no doubts about rejecting the recommended surgery at the spine clinic. I believe I need to get to the emotional root of whatever is dogging me or more serious things will bubble up. I'm also doing the structured ed program and aware I want to ramp it up, not make it the last thing on my list for the day. We can all support each other; we deserve to laugh; we deserve to touch the core of whoever we are as individuals and say to ourselves 'I am beautiful'.
Thank you, Shirley. You are right. I feel we were made to rejoice and enjoy this life. I did actually try yoga once last week. It went pretty well, and I did think that I will have to try it more regularly. I know exactly what you mean about your emotional state causing the pre-cancerous cells. Everytime I have had pre-cancerous or even cancerous skin cells, it has been when I've been under tremendous stress and emotionally not in a good place. I have always felt capable of keeping my anxiety under control...until now. I read on another thread where someone said that it takes a long time for the pain to go away once the anxiety is resolved. Although, it's not exactly what I want to hear, it does kind of bring hope in that it is not an overnight process. So, it also helps when you are prone to being outcome dependent. Another member suggested to me to not even try to make my pain go away. To accept that it is here and will be here for awhile. I have tried that, and it does seem to take the fear of "when is it going to leave?" away. Though not easy. I wish you the best with finding a new job and joy in your life! Looking forward to more posts.