Get headaches?

I woke up yesterday with a headache.

This happens from time to time, and I usually end up taking medication before it gets worse and it becomes difficult to function.

Since it was early, I laid in bed and just felt and allowed my headache.  

I didn’t fight it.  I didn’t wish it wasn’t there. 

I told myself I was paying attention to my pain right now, but I could take medicine at any point when I finished listening.

During this, I discovered some negative thoughts I had been thinking about myself and my life.  And as I discovered this and was just accepting of myself, I felt muscles that I didn’t even realize were tense, begin to relax.  The pain in my head started to dissipate.

I still had background pain and pressure in my head throughout the day, but it was minimal and I never felt it enough to take the medication.

This is how we start to work WITH our body.

This is how pain can work FOR us.  It is often a messenger.  

And it just screams louder when we don’t listen.