Yes You Can Get Rid of Your Migraines. I Did.

Let me ask you this…

How long have you struggled with Migraines?

How many years have you settled for less than you desire?

How many times have you given up on and ignored exploring how to manage your migraines because the thought of being Migraine-Free was ‘Just Fantasy?

I know you are finally ready to transform your life, but if you are like most people out there, you feel overwhelmed and don’t know where to start.

Chances are you that you are sick of your migraines and feel like you have tried everything but have only ended up with no results, your health is worse off and yes, you have less money?

And in this day and economy you are probably scared of scams just take your money and leave you hanging with no one left to trust?

I know your frustration, I know your fear – I’ve been there and was living a life, caged in by my migraines, that seemed to just happen to me until I made the decision to live my life on purpose and advance to the life I REALLY wanted – 1 step at a time.

Most people put their lives on hold…

I know how easy it is to do that…

I know how easy it is to tell yourself that once this or that happens, then you are going to change your life…

I know how easy it is to push exploring how you can manage your migraines back just a few weeks more and more and more…

Because of that, this post isn’t for everyone…

It may not be for you…

And that’s ok…

But, if you honestly feel like you can’t wait to start any longer, then this is for you.

And if you are really ready (and please be honest) then I am ready to go all in with you!

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Listen, I know this course will give you the tools, knowledge and accountability you need to get a massive jump start to living your best Year – one without migraines!

But that doesn’t matter if you aren’t ready to start now and forever say goodbye to ‘Later’.

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Here’s the deal…

I know that if you start now you will be unstoppable, I know you can’t afford to wait any longer for the

life you have always wanted to live…

Imagine how it will feel to have access to the strategies

that will make you unstoppable and start getting you immediate results…

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To your migraine-free life!
Love,

Sile

P.S. If you’re serious about improving your health – go have a look – leave me a comment below (on my blog). This training has my highest recommendation! It’s completely guaranteed so you have nothing to lose and everything to gain…

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How Eram Finally Got Rid of Her Migraines

I love seeing how people achieve what they thought was impossible, like getting rid of your migraines forever and never having to rely on pills ever again.

I am especially grateful to Eram who shares her story with you below.

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I had suffered from migraines since childhood, until only few weeks ago. Migraines were like a part of life, a very strong reality for me that I thought I just have to live with all my life. As a kid I used to really get scared when I had to go to a party because it always ended with a strong headache and nausea for me. This was really tough because I always looked forward to any family gatherings but I associated any gathering of people, with bad headaches. Perfumes have been a major trigger of migraine for me which obviously used to be in abundance in any gathering.

My migraines got really worse during teenage. I had to skip school for 2 to 3 days almost every 3 or 4 weeks. That is when my parents started to take me to doctors and we got to know that I have complex migraines. The doctors gave me a lot of pills which lessened the occurrence of migraines but once it attacked it used to last for 2 to 3 days.

As I grew up more triggers came into play. Boredom and stress being the major ones. I used to get really exhausted with boredom and stress and then I would have a migraine. I have been to a lot of different doctors and have taken a zillion pills, some of which had really bad reactions but nothing got rid of the migraines.

During the last four or five years my migraines became worse as my ability to cope with stress lessened. I used to get a headache on a slight hint of tension. This is when I stopped any treatment and started taking pain killers only. However, I got too desperate to get rid of my stress and looked for ways other than medicines.

This is when I came across the Natural migraine relief website. I signed up for the top 10 tips and amazingly they worked. I started making notes of my feelings, conditions and triggers of migraines. I could figure out more triggers and could avoid them. Increasing my water intake really helped and so did yoga and specially the hand mudras. I actually learned more about hand mudras and now use many mudras regularly for various benefits. The blogs also helped. I started using the ice therapy mentioned in one of the blogs and it so quickly vaporized the migraine. I also became aware of my sleeping habits and started taking proper naps. This not only reduced the occurrence of migraine attacks but also made me less stressful and less anxious.

Then I read the book Living Deliberately (which you get once you sign up for Sile’s top tips) and after being inspired by Sile who is an Avatar master, I went for the Avatar training course.

This is what really transformed my life and helped me in actually getting rid of the migraines. I now have only minor headaches that I can get rid of through Avatar tools but I haven’t had a migraine since the course.

Avatar is truly the most powerful self development course. It surely is a guide to one’s own self. I had a chance to journey through my self and see what troubles me, what causes stress and how easily I can choose not to be stressed.

During this 9-day course I had a chance to look at my beliefs that I had constructed. These beliefs were just there operating my life and causing stress and anxiety in my experiences. The Avatar tools helped me to free my attention and once I realized what believes I was operating with, I began to change them.

The tools made it so easy. I learned how I could dis-create my stress, my fears, my judgments of others and myself, my fixed attentions, my lost concentration, every negativity that was stopping me from loving and experiencing and eventually my migraines.

Even the frequency and intensity of the minor headaches that I am left with is decreasing. Being migraine-free is a huge blessing. Also being medicine-free is a huge blessing.

Love
Eram

Sile’s note: I hope to bring you many more stories about people who are migraine-free in the near future. Question is: do you want to read about it or write about it?! What would your life be like without migraines?

PS The next dates for the Avatar courses are:

May 1-9, 2010 – Berg en Dal, Netherlands

June 12-20, 2010 – Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands

July 3-11, 2010 – Orlando, Florida, USA

Did Larry King Interview Sile on Migraines?

Catchy title eh?  Me on Larry King Live, being interviewed on how I got rid of my migraines and asked to come back again? I wish! Well, who knows. Anything can happen!

Anyway, I had so much fun creating this video, I hope you enjoy it too.

If you want to see me back on the show, please post your questions below. Hopefully, I’ll be back soon!

In the meantime, if anyone is interested in watching another video about the training course I mention, click on www.avatarintro.com

How Graham Got Rid of His Migraines

Every January, I go to Orlando to recharge my batteries – not by going to Disneyland but by attending the Wizard course (www.wizardcourse.com).

It’s so awesome to hang out with over 3,000 Avatar Masters around the world all of whom are interested in taking more personal responsibility for their lives. Exploring my mental blueprint in 2005 was my first step to a fuller life, a life without migraines and I haven’t looked back since.

I met an good friend and kindred spirit I never met. What I mean is that I had never met him in person. I had chatted with him, knew what he looked like, shared migraine stories but we had never spoken to each other. We were facebook friends.

He had told me that like me, he used the Avatar tools to get rid of his migraines. So I asked him if he would write something for my blog viewers who suffer from migraines and who want to get rid of them. He said he didn’t know what or how to write something inspiring. I asked him just to tell his story (and asked and asked and asked until finally..!) here it is:

Dear Sile,

Here’s the piece, you’ve asked me to write… sorry, it’s been a long time coming.  I’m not a writer, really, so I put off  putting pen to paper. Anyway, here it is.  I like the idea of sharing my story on the internet if it means that more people will know that with the right training, they can get control over their migraines. I can still hardly believe it myself when I think about it.

Back to the beginning:

Migraines. The word itself put the fear into the biggest of man. My first contact with it was as a child not understanding it. I think I was about 10 years old. My mother had it and when she did she would tell my father that she would go into her room, lock the door, drew the curtains and we didn’t see her for days. I sat outside the door and listened to her as she sobbed herself to sleep.

I now know that from an early age I started getting migraines even though I didn’t know they were migraines because they were different to what most people complain about. I didn’t actually have the pain and still don’t. I got the numbness, lack of any feeling in my arms, legs and face and my words and speech would start to slow down. It was like my body would shut down. I was paralysed.

My father put it down to growing pains and didn’t give it any attention all these years. I don’t blame him though, as he didn’t know any better.

As an adult, I was afraid of driving long journeys for fear that if I got a migraine mid journey, I would put my family at risk. I’m over 45 now so I’ve had this a long long time. I carried pills with me, had an inhaler and when I felt a migraine coming on, I would have to stop what I was doing, pop some pills and press my head down on the (cold) ground until I felt fine again. Not the sort of thing you want to do in the middle of business meetings or if you are driving. But that was the only thing that helped me cope and feel better.

Until…

This time last year, I  did an Avatar course (www.avatarepc.com) which is all about looking at your own belief system and how you feel about the world we live in and how we can shape our future the way we want.  I loved it and continued to do the Masters course in the summer in Germany. Well, in the middle of the course, I had a migraine and as everyone knows too well, the panic started to set in which always made the problem worse. I wanted to leave course immediately. One of the trainers, John, came over to me gave me a specific exercise to do which was about deliberately directing my attention in a specific way. I did it for 20 minutes and the numbness vanished and it was ok for me to carry on the day. That was my first and fastest experience of getting on top of my migraines. In the last year I just did this exercise when I felt a migraine setting in and I’d get better faster and faster. Just knowing this makes me much more relaxed. And I know I am getting more and more in control of it.

I would never have believed it if you just explained it to me. I had to try it myself and it worked and was one of the best tools I’ve learned (and not just for migraines because I don’t think about them too much anymore)!

Lots of love,

Graham

PS I’ve thrown away my inhaler but still keep my pills in my bag, just in case. But before you ask, I haven’t taken a pill in a year.

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I find Graham’s story very inspiring and insightful and I hope that you do too.  If you liked the post please leave a comment below. If you’ve gotten rid of your migraines without medicine, please leave a comment to share how you did it so that you can inspire others to do so too.

The First Step to a Migraine-Free Year

Happy New Year!

Are you looking forward to 2010?

Let me ask you think: have you set your intention to get your migraines under control?

Have you decided to prioritise making your health the best it can be?

Is 2010 the year you manage to get rid of your migraines completely?

Without medicines?

For me real change started with a decision; the kind that fused body, heart and soul.  I decided I had had enough. I decided that I wanted to live my life without the extruciating pain of migraines. I decided I was going to *murder* my migraines… naturally.

But before you make any decision, just think:

What will your life look/feel like without migraines?

What would you do? What would you dare to do that you couldn’t before?

What effect would this have on your family and friends?

How much life are your migraines costing you now?

What would it be worth to you to have zapped your migraines out of your life?

What if others had done it naturally without expensive pills (and medical cat scans confirm that their brain is no different from yours)? What if it were possible for you to do the same?

Isn’t it worth considering to give it a go?

I did it and I *know* you can too, if you’d only take the first step.

So please take the first step:

Sign up for my top ten tips (top of this blog enter your name and email and a message a day will be sent to you). Read and take whatever advice of this blog and others on migraines you find useful and try them out.

But ultimately…

*Decide* that 2010 is the year, you get control over your migraines.

To Your Success!

Sile

(that’s Sheila)

I Need Migraine Case Studies – Will You Help?

Over the past few months, I have been writing and mulling over my book, Natural Migraine Relief – Killing Your Pain Without Painkillers and to finish it, I really need your help.

I want this book to touch and help as many people as possible and I need a few more perspectives. I would like to have a few case studies about different migraine sufferers’ experience and find out what has and hasn’t worked for them. In return I will give you an ecopy absolutely free or a hard copy for free, if you pay shipping and handling – once it is finished.

Before answering the questions, I need to know if any of the Ten Top Tips have helped you (mentally and physically) become stronger and in a better position to tackle your migraines. Describe the state of your health now.

If you haven’t signed up yet, you can do so now  (there are a few hidden gems in there – http://naturalmigrainereliefnow.com) After reading and following the tips, I’d be grateful if you could let me know.

Please answer the 12 questions in the comments box below: (see website http://naturalmigrainereliefnow.com in case you are reading this anywhere else) .

1. Describe your migraine in detail (when did it first strike you and now, when does it happen? What happens to you? How long does it last? What do you do to cope?)

2. What do you think is/are the cause(s) of your migraines?

3. What alternative methods have you tried? What happened?

4. How often are you (mentally) stressed? What happens to your body?

5. What (events, foods, things, other)/who causes you stress?

6. How do you deal with this stress?

7. What do you believe about yourself and your migraines? (please list your most common beliefs about them)

8. Do you believe you can get rid of your migraines completely? If not, why not?

9. What would it be worth to you to get rid of your migraines?

10. Can you imagine how your life would be without migraines?

11. Can you describe how you would feel what you would do and what your day would now be like?

12. Would you be willing to try something you haven’t tried before?

Please answer every question in the comment box below.

Thanks  to everyone in advance who will take the time to answer these questions! Now I need to get back to writing.

Namaste!

Oranges Can Cause Magnesium Deficiency… and Migraines

The next post is brought to you thanks to Amber Stephenson  who is a member of my facebook page aptly called Natural Migraine Relief. She found the part about oranges causing magnesium deficiency in some migraine sufferers, interesting. I have to say I was intrigued as well.

Here is the article:

The idea that oranges are considered a possible trigger for migraine has surprised many of us, as orange juice is usually considered to be beneficial in our diet.

Not if you are sensitive to citrus. The citrus group of foods is a known allergen, including fruits such as oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruit. Additionally, a lot of commercial orange juice is squeezed with the rind on, subsequently bruising it and releasing synephrine, a vasoconstrictor.

There have been links between migraine headaches and synephrine as well as related vasoconstrictors, so it makes sense that this could be a trigger. Many patients found that freshly squeezed orange juice made at home had no adverse effect.

A 2004 study found that: “In migraine patients, plasma levels of octopamine and synephrine were higher compared with controls, although in migraine with aura, the difference was not significant”.(1)

Synephrine is a stimulant that raises blood pressure, which can also cause migraines. The theory being that migraine sufferers with a citrus allergy can gain relief from a low dosage of daily blood pressure medication.

Citrus fruits also cause magnesium deficiency in some patients, and magnesium deficiency has been linked to migraine without aura. In a study where thirty migraine patients were treated with magnesium versus ten treated with placebo, the number of patients experiencing relief was so high that the possibility of the test results being coincidental was less than a 1 in 1000 chance.(2) The magnesium was administered as a magnesium citrate supplement, 600mg per day, orally. Patients were assessed by computerized tomography before and after the three month treatment period.

Citrus fruits also contain histamine, another suspect in food related allergies. A study at Texas Tech in El Paso TX found a correlation between high histamine levels and migraine attacks in susceptible persons.

An unhappy relationship between hypoglycemia and migraine can be heightened by drinking of orange juice, lemonade or other citrus juice in an attempt to raise the blood sugar – the orange juice can actually increase the migraine pain and the blood sugar level is blamed instead. This justifies the importance of maintaining a food diary and testing for food allergies.(3)

One woman related how she had taken migraine medication daily for years, washing it down with an 8 oz glass of orange juice each morning. Finally, when her sons were diagnosed, it became apparent that by giving them juice daily, she had simply been stimulating the cycle of migraines. Incidentally, orange flavored drinks such as Tang and Sunny D also contain migraine triggering substances similar to the natural fruits, so if citrus is a problem for you, avoid them as well!

Elimination of citrus is much simpler than many other migraine trigger foods, and is relatively easy to live without. For people suffering severe food intolerance migraines, living without orange juice, lemonade and key lime pie was a minor exclusion from their diet.

Sources:

(1) pubmed15159465.do, Cure Hunter, 05/25/2004
(2) Magnesium Research, Jun 2008;21(2):101-8. PMID: 18705538, by Koseoglu E, Talaslioglu A, Gonul AS, Kula M. Erciyes University, Medicine Faculty, Neurology Department, Kayseri, Turkey
(3) Leira R, Rodriguez R, Revista de Neurologia 1996 May;24(129):534-8

Research by Grace-Alexander

When I used to have migraines, bananas would give me migraines and I thought it was the excess potassium but I couldn’t find any back up in science.

I was allergic to a number of foods (any kind of cheese except cottage cheese, coffee, chocolate, tuna fish, grapes, not gluten or wheat though etc) Since I got completely rid of my migraines, I also got rid of my food allergies and thankfully now can eat anything.

I believe that you can too.

Amber told me she’s researching all types of foods that trigger migraines and that don’t and that she’s really starting to go head over heels into Migraine Research which is GREAT because there is a lot of information on the web and I would love all the natural solutions, remedies and treatments be listed on one website (err.. this one!) for your benefit.

So thank you again Amber  for sharing this with everyone.

My First Testimonial for Natural Migraine Relief!

I’ve been blogging for about five months posting articles and videos I find on the web that give an alternative and natural choices to migraine sufferers, for long term relief instead of recommending narcotics which only give temporary relief.

Why do I do it? Because I used to suffer from migraines for over 15 years. I know just how bad the pain is when it hits and how debilitating it is.

Anyway, by 2005, I had had enough of my life as it was – even when I was well the fear of a potential attack would always be lurking in my thoughts. So although my body was a wreck from my migraine attacks and the narcotics I took, I wanted a way out: a healthy way out. I decided I was going to get rid of migraines (though I had no clue how I was going to do that). It didn’t matter because but I’d always found that when I set my mind on achieving a goal, unexpected opportunities present themselves to me and it was up to me to recognise and act upon them.

I changed my lifestyle to include healthier habits and started to introspect to weed out what ‘virus programs’ I had in my system. I took a consciousness training (www.avatarepc.com) which gave me the tools to zap those virus programs and start regaining control of my life.

I got rid of my migraines and I want others to help other migraine sufferers to do the same. I know that it IS possible to manage, prevent and completely get rid of migraines. It is possible to even start eating foods that previously triggered an attack. It is possible to live a migraine-free life!

My goal is to help 1 million migraine sufferers get rid of their migraines completely in 10 years.

Today, I got my first testimonial from Danielle and I am so very proud.

Dear Sile

Because of you and your pages and support I have gotten off the narcotics. I just got thru a really rough detox time but I know it is worth it! It was really hard, especially difficult because with the withdrawal I knew the repair was so close by. I know my decision was the right one, what is the point to medicate your way out of living? You really helped me see this, thank you.

Thank you!

Danielle

PS I cancelled the appointment!

Stomach Ache? It Might be Abdominal Migraine.

Anyone who has ever had a migraine will say they do not just happen in the head. The headache is usually the worst and most painful part of a migraine, but there’s more.  Most migraineurs (people who suffer from migraines) will talk about photosensitivity (sensitivity to light), phonosensitivity (sensitivity to sound), scent sensitivity, gastric pain, cramping, and vomiting.

Sometimes the abdominal symptoms show up without the other typical migraine symptoms.  When they do, a patient is said to be experiencing an abdominal migraine.  An abdominal migraine is pain, usually varying from mild to medium, in the abdomen.  The pain is either along the midline or unspecified and is frequently accompanied by abdominal tenderness, cramp-like spasms, nausea, bloating, vomiting, and loss of appetite.

Since abdomen pain can be caused by a wide variety of conditions other causes need to be ruled out before a diagnosis can be made.  In a classic abdominal migraine, no gastric cause for the pain can be identified.  Migraineurs need to let their doctors know about their migraines when they experience unspecified abdominal pain so that the doctor knows abdominal migraine may be a possibility.

Abdominal migraines are most common in children.  Children who experience abdominal migraines frequently grow up to be migraineurs.  While abdominal migraine is not unheard of in adults, it is rare.  Like most other types of migraine, it is also more common in females than in males.

While the exact cause of abdominal migraines is unknown, it is highly likely to be related to serotonin deficiency.  Serotonin deficiency has been linked in several studies to migraines, and 90% of the body’s serotonin is produced in the gastric system.  Serotonin deficiency causes cascading waves of nerve reaction in the brain when triggering a migraine and a similar process may be in effect in the abdomen.

So what to do when you have a stomach ache? This video gives some tips:

Also have a look at what is going on in your life and if you are experiencing a bit of stress as the mind and stomach are sister organs. Release those emotions and watch your stomach relax as well. Releasing can be done through a variety of ways: meditation, yoga, EFT and taking a consciousness training course www.avatarepc.com all of which I would highly recommend.

If your head hurts, start treating your feet

Reflexology is a simple method to help balance the body and stimulate organs. It is a natural therapy that is based on the principle that there
are reflexes on the soles of the feet which correspond to every organ of the body, reflexology serves to relax, improve circulation and promote a general feeling of wellness.

Technique’s basics : Gentle pressure is applied on specific pressure points of hands and feet, to provide relief. Says reflexologist Habiba Bijapuri, “It is believed that these pressure points are the gateways to vital energy centres within the body. These energy centres may become blocked from the stresses of everyday life. Using reflexology techniques, these energy centres can be cleared and the balance to the body restored.”

How reflexology works : Studies have helped map reflexes on the foot. Although there are many different foot reflexology charts, this technique is generally believed to help relieve stress, aid in the relief of aches, pains and tension, help digestion and bowel actions and improve sleep patterns.
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