If you have a fundamental antipathy for the concept of one minute meditations designed for people with ME/CFS and Long Covid then this site is for you. This is not about one more well meaning person offering you suggestions on what will help. It’s about offering some options from one M.E. Endurer to another.
For the record, in case you need to hear it from me before you continue, the symptoms of ME/CFS are not in your head. Providing tools that might help you cope with having a chronic illness is in no way supposed to be a treatment or cure for ME/CFS or Long Covid.
If your thoughts, emotions or worries are tumbling and escalating, take a look at the ME/CFS friendly resources to see if any of the little exercises help you trick the brain into focussing on something else. Even if its just for a minute.
Just so you know, I am learning that my default setting is sarcasm with a side serving of off beat waggishness. That is sitting just above a layer of sadness for those suffering and a bottom layer of perfectly normal existential dread. My attempts at levity are in no way about minimising your pain or distress.
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Still Missing
Nothing exemplifies that you are missing from you life quite like realising your last blog was almost a year ago and the topic was (irony of ironies) Millions Missing 2021.
Millions missing – Millions more hoping they won’t fade from view
ME/CFS Awareness Week 2021, another year gone by, another week full of bittersweet moments. To the Millions missing- You are seen and you are not alone.
Positivity without profound cognitive dissonance
It is true that I shouldn’t need a label of “art” to elevate an activity to something meaningful or of value. But the mental gymnastics required to reject society’s expectations of acceptable use of your time is too exhausting. Educating others on why it’s not possible to be living a life out and about in the world is exhausting. Constantly monitoring and pushing back on your internal critique is exhausting.
This site was written on Kabi Kabi Country.
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country, throughout Australia and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters, and I thank them for protecting this beautiful ecosystem for time immemorial. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
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