Top 10 tips for calming symptoms of Cervical Dystonia


1. SLOW DOWN
Stop doing everything at 100MPH, spinning many plates at once, juggling many balls and doing everything for everyone else apart from you.

2. LEARN THE WORD ‘NO’!!!
Are you a YES person? I bet you are. It’s time to start saying NO to people or even NOT YET. You often say yes to stop you feeling like you are letting someone down, when actually you are letting yourself down.

3. GET YOUR EXERCISE
Walk 10,000 steps per day, and enjoy this as part of your everyday routine, this releases chemicals in your body that will make you feel great. Download a STEPS APP on your smart phone to keep track. ( DO NOT DO WEIGHTS )

4. LISTEN TO MUSIC
Whenever you can, get your favourite music on and have a good sing along, this will help to create a change in state, a release of ‘feel good’ chemicals and will help to remove symptoms for that period of time.

5. DANCE
You do not have to be a great dancer to get some moves going on. Dancing creates a huge shift in mind state and will completely remove symptoms of Cervical Dystonia whilst you are doing it. ( REMEMBER, NO HEADBANGING ALLOWED ) for those Rock fans, it will hurt afterwards.

6. BECOME SELFISH
I don’t mean in a horrible way, i mean, get others in your life to do more for YOU instead of you doing everything for them. Take that time to go for that walk, or read your magazine or just sit and do nothing.

7. CUT YOUR TO DO LIST BY HALF
How many of you work hard all day and then come home and start work all over again? Sound familiar? Or, if you don’t work or are retired I bet your diary is jam packed full of things to do with your time? You are way too busy and need to calm things down by setting realistic parameters to work within. An idea of how to do this is to count the things in your diary for a week and cut half of them out, and feel empowered by doing it.

8. TAKE TIME OUT FOR YOURSELF
You do not have to feel guilty if you decide to sit down and relax, read a book or watch TV. It’s very easy to sit there itching to get up and do something, to keep yourself busy because it’s wrong if you stop right? How many of you suffer with chronic fatigue? Most i would guess as you are constantly battling through, desperately trying to look and be normal, it’s exhausting. You must STOP, THINK, and DO things differently. It’s all about YOU.

9. LISTEN TO YOUR FEELINGS
Your feelings are never wrong. If it feels right, then do it. If it doesn’t feel right, then don’t do it. It is as simple as that. How many times have you done something that you know you shouldn’t have and then paid the price for it? How many times have you battled on only to find the next day your symptoms are far worse, you pay for it. How many times have you had a good day and totally filled it with tasks? Guess what? YOU PAID FOR IT. Your feelings are NO 1. Listen to them before, not after.

10. LISTEN TO MY RELAXATION HYPNOTHERAPY AUDIO
You can request the relaxation audio by sending me and email to neildurranstherapy@gmail.com Use it to help reset you, calm you or to help you get to sleep.