Archive for July, 2008

How I got relief from severe back pain in 30 seconds

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

I’ve had severe back problems for around 20 years now. Tried many different methods to cure it but nothing worked.

My back doesn’t constantly hurt but is so sensitive that even if I bend down I end up hurting it. Even if I am trying to pick up something with perfect form, my back can just give out.

I had read about something called EFT (emotional freedom techniques) over a year and a half ago. Never really took it seriously. Just a few months ago I watched an episode of “I can make you think” by Paul McKenna. Actually I just watched a commercial for it. In that commercial I saw people tapping and that reminded me of EFT.

I decided to give EFT a chance. I read the basics of how to perform EFT. Then I started applying it for pain in my middle back. After about 20 seconds or so my back pain just vanished. Literally it just vanished. I was feeling pain and then all of a sudden it disappeared. It didn’t go down in intensity slowly, it just completely disappeared. I was shocked!

Then I applied EFT for my upper and lower back pain and got rid of those as well. I was ecstatic! I have found another tool for self-development. :-)

After the caffeine withdrawal symptoms disappeared

Monday, July 14th, 2008

It took well over two weeks before the caffeine withdrawal symptoms started disappearing. First thing I noticed was my appetite improved. Before I would get to work and have a few cups of tea and/or coffee and wouldn’t feel hungry until well past lunch time. Now even if I had breakfast at home, I was hungry again in 2 to 2.5 hours or so. I actually felt annoyed because now I had to prepare more food. :-)

I started feeling much clearer through out the day. My sleep improved. I didn’t need as much sleep and I started sleeping soundly. I was yawning through out the day though. This didn’t go away until after a month at least. My concentration improved. I was drinking herbal teas and rooibos tea. Best thing about this tea was that it tasted almost like regular tea and I could even buy earl grey rooibos tea which was awesome! :-) I even found stores where they would sell loose tea, directly imported from different countries. I never realized that there were so many different flavours even of herbal or natural teas.

Every day I felt more energetic and was totally loving it. At this point, no effort from my part was required to keep away from caffeine. I noticed that even if I had a little bit of caffeine during the day it would disrupt my sleep that night. So, I stayed away from caffeine.

Only downside of all this was that whenever I would go to any friends or family’s house I would be offered tea and it seemed rude to turn them down but I still did. Most of them understood though. So, all was well :-)

Caffeine withdrawal symptoms

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

If I had any doubt whether caffeine was good for me or not was washed away after one day of giving up my caffeine.

All it took was just missing one cup of tea at my regular tea time and it just got worst after that. For two straight weeks I experienced following symptoms:

  • Severe headaches
  • Nausea
  • Fever
  • Lose of concentration
  • Extreme irritability
  • Difficulty sleeping
  • Anxiety

And this is all that I can remember right now as it was a few months ago. I would be sitting at work trying to work on some problem and I would have no idea what I was doing. I would read something ten times and even then it just seemed hard to understand it.

I still did not want to use my will power or discipline to stay away from caffeine. Not only did I completely stop tea, or coffee, but any form of caffeine. No tea, no coffee, no pepsi, no cokes, no caffeine in any form whatsoever.

I started repeating my intentions through out the day and I had to do this for the next two days or so, that’s all. After that my desire to stay away from caffeine was very strong and seemed like no effort at all, even though I was experiencing severe caffeine withdrawal symptoms.