Do This And You WILL Recover Fully - CFS/Long-Covid Recovery

Sharing the most important change that had to happen in my chronic illness journey for me to recover.
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[@tao-of-wellbeing]

I think what you say has a lot of value, but I also think it's really important to recognise the "fallacies" in your exposition. For example, you don't know for sure that meditation was the reason you recovered. It may well have been, but "regression to the mean" is a real thing that may have played a part. Also, because it (probably) was so helpful for you, it may not be as effective for someone else (overgeneralisation, survivorship bias), so your claims are irrationally confident, IMO, which could mean that people who don't have such good results may end up blaming themselves, feeling like failures etc. in the face of your (IMO) overly strong claims. Of course it's good to share what we believe has helped us, and I very much share your enthusiasm for meditation as a powerful healing tool, but a large dose of humility is pretty important in this kind of situation, IMO. If you are interested, I think this video I made might be relevant here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHOVYmB4qpaHm80 .

[@mrfunkyman6860]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[@ErinLynn1966]

I don't know how you don't have thousands and thousands of followers on here. I really do believe that this is the answer to recovery for us, and I wish that more people could hear your thoughts on this. Your advice has absolutely been one of the only things that has helped me in my recovery. I was on the right path, but kept getting stuck, and your advice was like someone taking my hand and guiding me down the rest of the path. I love how down to Earth and relatable you are as well...Whenever I watch your videos I feel as if I am listening to someone I have known my whole life. You're extremely calming for me, and I'm very grateful for that and grateful that I found your videos. While you were away on retreat I had a pretty bad "crash", but I went to your videos several times a day and that made me feel like you were right there with me, guiding me through to the other side of it. And it worked wonderfully! I recently started learning about Dyad meditation. Is that something that you have ever done? And is it something that you may be willing to try out at some point? I can email you as well so that we can discuss it more there rather than in comments. It seems like something that can be very helpful and powerful to those of us who are on a self-inquiry journey. As always, thank you for another great video/great advice! ❤️

[@life.withkyle]

Thank you for your lovely comment Erin! I'm so glad that the channel has been so helpful to you, and that the videos were able to help you through your crash, that's exactly why I make them so its great to hear 🤗! I hadn't heard of Dyad meditation before but just looked into it a bit and it looks like a great and potent practice, I like the idea of practicing inquiry intimately with another person, very powerful , might try it some time in the future All the best! 🙏🏼🤍

[@ezza1236]

Please don’t ever go on forums or listen to negative people about cfs or long covid. This was my biggest mistake at the beginning. It’s the blind leading the blind

[@andrewstrakele6815]

I believe this video and Long COVID: Life isn’t Fair by JUST ROB are the 2 most important videos for Long COVID/CFS Recovery. Changing your Mindset and setting your Intention to Heal is Step;#1. You have to take ACTION.

[@haiku_187]

Thank you I’m on 3.5 yrs of this , You are 100 % correct on this , just recently found out what it actually is .

[@dbulat]

It's an auto-immune - metabolic disease. The body's immune system produce spike proteins which enters the cells and cause inflammation and metabolic dysfunction the symptoms of longcovid is CIRS and Metabolic Dysfunction like type 2 diabetic, nerve system issues, whole body chronic inflimmation including lungs brain and heart etc. Good chances it was caused from the jabs (the lingering longcovid which goes over a year). People who have longcovid and did not get the jabs seem to recover within some months.

[@mattsmith4459]

thats just flat out a lie lol@@dbulat

[@nestechen]

@@dbulatIt’s a nervous system issue

[@kilianb8674]

​@@nestechen its not

[@nestechen]

@@kilianb8674 Of course it is. Your brain is perceiving danger, that’s why it creates symptoms to protect you from going outside into the scary world. Repressed emotions are most likely a cause. So start feeling again. Dive deep into your body and allow yourself to feel.

[@ezza1236]

I think emotional stress is more debilitating then physical stress . The brain is connected to the body

[@andybreedlove]

This IS my me/cfs - emotional stuff

[@oliverbird6914]

Stress shuts down mitochondria....

[@renahutcheson29]

Please look up Whitney Dafoe and tell him that.

[@dotot341]

Hey Kyle, I have a question - how did you get over your fear of reinfection? Or was that never really a problem for you? I remember you said you've been reinfected a couple of times and were fine. I've made huge huge improvements but I'm still struggling with a fear of reinfection and everything starting over

[@life.withkyle]

Was pretty afraid early on but eventually I was like this can't get much worse and maybe a reinfection will actually trigger some change in my immune system, then got reinfected and nothing really changed just felt a bit worse for a week or so Like most things the fear goes with exposure, all the things I thought might knock my recovery, poor sleep, stress, unhealthy eating etc. I eventually exposed myself to once recovered so that my recovery wasn't dependant on me not doing certain things, no matter what I did it was over Fear really just needs to felt and faced (not easy) , doesn't matter what the object of fear is, feeling through the depths of my fear kind of dissolved fear of most things as it was fine if it started coming up, not a problem anymore

[@SamShinnick]

​​@@life.withkyle Really appreciate your videos and so glad you got to answer this question. I think fear of reinfection has been a huge factor in how we recover. Personally it has determined so many of my decisions now that I'm somewhat recovered, from whether or not to get the next booster to returning to work and school in person, socializing with friends, etc. So much grey area and it's really tough making the right decisions. That feeling of not knowing what will happen is scary, and hard to accept things we can't control. Thank you again, this really helped me ☺️

[@bevillenz]

Great content but consider investing in a mic to improve sound quality.

[@johnframe1117]

Kyle, you are spot on. I wish I started listening to you sooner!

[@genesmolko8113]

The entire thing is such a contradiction

[@DaylanTheAngrySauerkraut]

Im Vac injured 22mths and just found out. Im hoping your methods can also work for me🤗

[@RicoTheUnknown]

I had to hear this today. Thank you so much 🙏🏼

[@life.withkyle]

You're welcome!

[@simon--k]

Thanks Kyle. Great inspiration as always. Awareness. Compassion. You're so right the theory is a wonderful 10% but the rubber hits the road with practice. Definitely. It is challenging work. That's for keeping us motivated

[@life.withkyle]

💯🙏🏼

[@simon--k]

Kyle I have a question for you. It seems like an art to know when to push and when to relent in recovery. I had 4 weeks where my energy raised. One week drop. One day a lot of energy. Another week not great. I got impatient and started to push my limits in quite a 'speedy' way yesterday - and I built a bunch of IKEA furniture! It pushed me physically and mentally. It felt good to do it. But now I feel really intensely sapped of energy the next day. Like I overdid it. You've mentioned bringing on symptoms being an important part of the journey and to work with it. Do I ignore or honour how I feel?! Do you know what I mean?

[@life.withkyle]

@@simon--k Yeah I would say it's fine to push in the moment if it feels good to do so and then the next if you feel really drained and out of it then maybe just take a day or two where you just take it easy, meditate a lot, sit with the symptoms and feel into, maybe spend time in nature. Just do what feels best on those days. It really just becomes a matter of exploring when to push and when to just sit and feel, and it's not going to be simple and linear, so many times I would be like awesome I'm just gonna go for it and then I'd have some flare ups and then I'd have to work through those etc. There's gonna be ups and downs Does that make sense?

[@simon--k]

@@life.withkyle I think I knew I was pushing too much yesterday. Constantly trying to distract from intense fatigue that I didn't want to sit with. Today I feel out of it in a way I've felt for months. I had some great weeks of getting up before 6 every day. Walking every other day. I built up to 30 minutes of walking. A week that was seemingly 'an adjustment period' which was lower energy before more again. Then the last 10 days I've been in my apartment. I feel in my wisdom I've got to sit with it but I don't want to!! I want the energy I had. Did you find this on your journey? These waves? In the end you think even if it's not totally the purest energy - just do - and then relent into symptoms if they come? Do you think it stretches your fitness?

[@simon--k]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXXGqXWQbdqch9U Don't fight the mind! Important to remember

[@michellemackinnon4746]

Yep this is what I'm discovering, I think it is a powerful tool. Thanks 😊

[@ConsciousGrowing]

So deep and helpful like always 🙏

[@life.withkyle]

🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@Magnocalabro]

I have had "Long Covid" since January 2021... It is nothing more nothing less than Chronic Fatigue Syndrome triggered by a viral infection with the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. These are the symptoms that I have experienced for 26 months so far: Photophobia as an onset symptom; Very bad migraines and headaches; Blurred vision; Very strong brain fog; Vertigo and dizziness; PoTS; Swinging Mood along with anxiety and depression; Pins and Needles all over my body and Neuropathic Pain; Stabbing pain in the brain, in the muscles and in my joints; Very bad tingling, especially in the brain; Brain shocks; Unbelievably hot flashes with "charring" sensations (like you have burning fuel in the body); Insomnia, Weakness and Fatigue; Irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea. The body is also so HEAVY like a tombstone. When I am sitting on a chair, I feel like I am sinking into the chair. If I am sleeping and lying in bed, I feel like there's a lorry on me that is pushing me against the mattress and I am sinking into it. If I am walking, there's this constant weight pushing down on the lower part of my body, especially the legs. Will I ever heal from this?

[@life.withkyle]

Yes you can recover, I experienced all those symptoms at one point It's tough and scary but really the first big step towards recovery is to stop tracking symptoms and keeping tracking of time, it just makes things worse, reinforces beliefs in the nervous system that trigger symptoms and your identity forms around the illness, I had to realise that whatever symptoms came up I had to face it and not try and get rid It can take a while to get to this place but often one will come to this conclusion on your own if you're really honest with yourself about what's making you better and worse Recovery is 100% if you're willing to face what you need to, it's tough so be compassionate with yourself Sending love 🤍🤍

[@andybreedlove]

Same - every symptom you describe x

[@mrfunkyman6860]

I've had a lot of them. I thought I'd recovered after 5months of fatigue, then got back to exercising, was very happy, then the numbness, pins and needles, stroke like symptoms happened, ended up in hospital with suspected mini stroke. Now under investigation for possible MS. I've seen some research on the MS society website saying that the Epstein barr virus is linked to MS. What made me think of this, is that there are articles saying that covid may reactivate the latent EBV in your body. I'm not saying this is exactly what's happening but it's just interesting to look in to if nothing else works.

[@rebeccaross9191]

Same here too!!

[@TheBushRanger.]

Great videos man. Any chance you could make your voice a little louder? Can barely hear you thanks

[@andreasrylander]

Exactly!!! I had/have long covid, since 2020... but meditation has made it so that I no longer know if I have it or not, and it does not even matter anymore. =)

[@life.withkyle]

Amazing! Thanks for sharing that

[@jacrowe3477]

Its about staying in consciouness, illness is ego related

[@jenniferbauer3408]

Brilliant, love somatic mediations, I’ll do one now

[@juliantheilen5921]

Thank you mate

[@fiat2496]

Thanks Kyle! you have been such a huge inspiration for me. I cant thank you enough. You have helped me so much. God bless!

[@life.withkyle]

You're welcome! Wonderful to hear 🙏🏼😊

[@5000NATE]

I remember messaging you around seven months ago I started doing consistent meditation now it's just part of my life and I can tell you one thing its turnaround this condition for me I have little experience has left from long covid spend an actual wonderful journey to learn about myself you can all heal if you take time

[@life.withkyle]

Thanks for sharing Nate! So great to hear that you've made a lot of progress :)

[@MsJessyBee]

Such a good video! I know I fight my symptoms so hard in the mornings bc they are super intense. How do I do this well for like 3-4 hours while I lay there in the morning? I want to be able too! My NS shoots me with stress hormones as soon as I open my eyes. I don’t want to fight or resist anymore but because I am bedbound, I need to be able to do this for hours upon hours. Any advice would be great!

[@life.withkyle]

Yeah often the mornings when waking up can be the toughest so I might make a video on this at some point But just briefly I would say really try to notice the labels you are giving the experience and try more to just explore the direct experience with no labels and no story. So notice how the thoughts say oh no another shitty morning my nervous system is all stressed out etc. And notice that is the story about the the direct sensations and then explore what is just the pure experience with no story what is an uncomfortable sensation like with no label of uncomfortable. Just try do this more and more

[@MsJessyBee]

@@life.withkyle thank you!

[@andybreedlove]

Same 100%

[@loveishappiness7330]

Sounds like adrenal fatigue SINCE your body is producing a lot of adrenaline. To understand this read the book Medical Medium. Or search his website. You need to eat at least every hour to begin with. . To stop the adrenaline spikes. Apples and bananas keep by your bed. And a jar of peanut butter WITH A tea SPOON to balance your adrenal spikes. Dates are good too but may be too much sugar for you right now, maybe later on. Your liver is not storing glucose properly, which is why you get the adrenaline spikes. As you body trying to get glucose into your blood. Adrenaline is trying to balance your blood sugar. But long term it’s hard on you having all that adrenaline pumping out of your adrenal glands. I had this myself so I know. Protein is not great long term but short term could help you. Little fish like mackerel. Don’t eat tuna as so toxic. Avoid eggs and dairy, sugar too, and no caffeine as will spike your adrenals. Chocolate too. Drink water on waking and through the day. Drink a lot of water. Keep by your bed. Smoothies would be good. As high in glucose. Coconut water too. When you can, sit up rather than lie flat, even if just proped up a little bit. Avoid chemical cleaning products, air freshener and perfumes, as these will trigger your adrenals to react. Be careful of anything brand new that may have chemicals offgassing. Especially bedding and in the bedroom. And toiletries you use. If you feel worse after shower or bath, lower the temperature and use olive oil soap. As is all natural. You also have to avoid stress as much as you can. Which I appreciate is difficult right now as everything will seem to trigger a stress response. But eating regular snacks will help you in time. As it will stop the adrenaline , then in a hour you will feel the stress again and you need to eat again. Small and often. You have hypoglycaemia, look it up. Hope this helps 🙏🌸

[@loveishappiness7330]

@MsJessyBee I posted a reply but forgot to put your name on it sorry!!

[@B3l0v3d05]

So outside circumstances that are just too much for your nervous system can't be the thing to keep this going?

[@life.withkyle]

No I see healing as two fold - 1. Remove/reduce outside stressors that lead to overwhelm 2. Learn ways to increase inner resilience through meditation + acceptance

[@B3l0v3d05]

​@@life.withkyle This is quite encouraging as im bedbound and dont have control of many things going on around me at all. But this helps me believe there is something I CAN do. Its interesting you mentioned meditation in here because silent meditation over the last few months has really showed me what is going on between brain and body, and my reactions and triggers. But guided meditation kept me too distracted. It was silent that started to move fhe needle ever so slightly.

[@JRESHOW]

Do you have any talks about your experience when you started doing cold water immersion? When you started? How long? Etc?

[@life.withkyle]

Not yet, will try to make a video about this in the future but I would just recommend starting with maybe with short cold showers and building it up

[@vlox9915]

What does meditation look like for you? I know what you mean by those deep feeling that we resist and how they can come up, feels like im always trying to distract myself from them or run from them. Although I dont know exactly what it is either, only that I’ve been struggling for so long. Is this meditation focused on the breath or whats the best way? Thanks for the insight and videos

[@life.withkyle]

Some different types of meditation that are helpful but what I recommend is starting with a focused meditation like staying with sensations of the breath at the nose and bringing attention back there whenever it wanders to build awareness and then also a deep feeling more open awareness practice of just sitting with whatever comes up and welcoming it fully and feeling it, this is more the meditation I do in my guided meditations I will make a video exploring more in detail what meditation techniques help the most

[@vlox9915]

@@life.withkyle sweet thank you

[@avashnemoonsamy940]

Hi Kyle did u also have these internal vibrations and internal tremors like earthquake shakes inside ur body ?

[@life.withkyle]

A little bit, but I know what you're talking about and I know people who did experience that a lot more. Don't worry about it, I know it's weird and scary but just let it happen, no need to stop it I know TRE (Trauma/tension release exercises) can be very helpful with this kind of thing

[@PernillaNorlin]

Thank you! I find your video here today. I'm so scared right now and have a lot of anxiey. I got sick in covid19 5 weeks ago and all this psychol symtoms scares me but I understand I'm making it worse with my overthinking.

[@loudy838]

Does Vedic or transcendental meditation also work, support this? Thanks for the video, super supportive and spot on

[@life.withkyle]

Yes definitely will be good supportive practice

[@indiabharat5014]

TM works slightly differently. It takes you very quickly and deeply into pure awareness but it doesn't deal with the sensations and underlying emotions that need to be felt. Mindfulness cleans your consciousness and a pure state of awareness emerges out of it.

[@santeenl]

Can you remove all the ads in the middle? Or up your volume a lot. The ads can be very loud and abrupt making me jump off my chair.

[@life.withkyle]

Unfortunately I can't do anything about the ads :( KZbin only gives you access to that stuff when you have 1k subs

[@santeenl]

@@life.withkyle maybe up the volume of your video so we don't get blasted by sudden loud sounds?

[@djVania08]

Would you say that the longer the session the better? In one sitting?

[@life.withkyle]

If you can then yeah, you will keep going deeper and more will start coming up If I meditate for 30 mins then meditate for 30 mins again later I won't have the same experience as meditating for 1 hour because say it gets real uncomfortable at the 30 min mark now I don't need to face it I take a break vs having to sit with that and face it for another 30 mins with no break or distraction

[@vetstrakman]

Thanks again Kyle for this video, extremely helpful. What I was wondering: You've been posting for like 4 months now since your recovery. What is your motivation to make these videos? Is it hard letting go of the illness, are you still 'dealing with it' or with the effects every day? Reason I ask is that many people who talk about this stuff, tend to talk about it years after they've recovered. I would hope that I eventually will be able to let it all go.

[@life.withkyle]

You're welcome :) Just feels like what I'm most drawn to do right now, there's so much negative misinformation out there about people not being able to recover from these illnesses which kept me and many others stuck. Having 100% recovered I just really want to help those still stuck, people say the videos are helping them so I'll keeping making them 😄

[@briechilli4496]

@@life.withkylethank you, i need your positive input ❤

[@Wds__99]

One of your best videos yet! Thank Kyle

[@life.withkyle]

You're welcome Stuart!

[@Wds__99]

@@life.withkyle My last couple of 45 mins mediation felt like 5 mins long. I wonder if that's a good thing...

[@life.withkyle]

@@Wds__99 Doesn't sound like a bad thing 😄

[@jakutz]

i also got long covid since june (europe) 01/06/2023 so 9 Months atm, im 100% sure that this is the cure (not reacting). I found out a very good way is especially if you feel sensation in your body just to breath slow and deep trough the noise. Just dont do anything just breath trough the noise in and out some minutes and relax dont do or think anything. My personal problem is i sometimes think the sensation is so much and strong it has to be something physical and then its hard to relax..

[@life.withkyle]

Love that technique, I used to do something similar. Thats ok when those thoughts come. That's where it's really helpful to practice seeing a thought as a thought and not identifying with it, I have a few videos specifically on this

[@mattsmith4459]

Hey man I'd love to connect with you. Long hauler 18 months in getting worse now just working on brain retraining. Curious as you're from Capetown if u ever went to Stellanbosch and tried anticoagulants?

[@life.withkyle]

Hey! Never tried the anticoagulants:) can connect with me via email or instagram if you'd like, both links are in the about section

[@SyndicShadow]

So you're saying do the actual techniques, but also more broadly, learn to accept everything as it is, including symptoms?

[@life.withkyle]

Yeah, get curious about what can't I accept right now. Why not? Because there's something that feels uncomfortable. Go there.

[@allyxflop]

cant quit my job and go to alps Have pets and daughter to support so have 5 days severe exercise work manual labor and then 2 days off Who knows how I will do God help us all

[@life.withkyle]

That's ok, don't believe the thoughts that are telling you that you can only recover if xyz changes, sure sometimes life adjustments are necessary and will happen if it's right but the mind will say oh I'll never recover because of my current circumstances, just find how you can explore the feelings coming up in your current situation just as it is. So notice the helpless and hopelessness that comes up and instead of identifying and believing the thoughts just acknowledge the emotion and give it space to felt, I have some videos guiding people thought this process Hope that's helpful :)

[@karagumruk7330]

You recovered while you were drinking coffee?

[@life.withkyle]

Stopped drinking coffee for about 1.5 years, only started drinking it again after recovering

[@karagumruk7330]

@@life.withkyle It took 1.5 years for you to recover?

[@danamarie7993]

Thank you….. that’s what I found as well and luckily I was on that path prior. Buttttt… after resistance and fighting and people walking away from me because there were no answers and friends felt helpless. Going INWARD is the only answer for EVERYTHING in life. How most people see life (how I saw it) was completely wrong. I had to do the 180 and walk into it. It needs to come from out of the mind into the heart. Nothing gets fixed at the mind level. It’s doing the actual work. Thanks for sharing kindred spirit. Our lives are on the right path now. Still experience ups and downs but I know now that it’s emotional. Meditation allows for space to see how entangled we are with this crazy life. Namaste ☮️🙏🏽

[@life.withkyle]

Well said 🙏🏼🤍

[@dommccaffry3802]

Buddhist teaching essentially

[@Atlas.Valiants]

Are you honestly 100% recovered?

[@life.withkyle]

Yep :)

[@Atlas.Valiants]

@@life.withkyle Awesome!

[@dbulat]

@@life.withkyle How many times where you jabbed? which manufacturer of vaccine and how long it took you to recover?

[@life.withkyle]

@@dbulat I got the vaccine twice but it had zero effect on my long covid and my symptoms, I had been sick for a year and a half before I got the vaccine and when I got it it didn't make anything worse or better :)

[@BingChilling-bs7wi]

@@dbulat I have long covid and never got vaccinated

[@owenlloyd593]

I have a question. We often hear that we shouldn't pay attention to symptoms, shouldn't focus on them too much. How do you balance this? Wouldn't feeling your symptoms end up making you hyperfocus on them all the time? Cheers

[@life.withkyle]

I'd say there is a big difference between hyperfocusing on symptoms from a place of fear and trying to get rid of and fix them compared to taking time to sit and explore what we're afraid to feel and making space to allow whatever needs to come to the surface and be felt

[@owenlloyd593]

​@@life.withkylethanks for your reply! That makes sense. Just out of curiosity, how long were you meditating per day at the start of your recovery?

[@life.withkyle]

@@owenlloyd593 Can't really say when the start of my recovery was haha The first year or so being sick didn't know about meditation, then I started meditating maybe 10-20 minutes on some days first with headspace app then waking up, slowly built it up as I realised the benefits and read a few books, listened to different teachers, became more curious and maybe 6 months later I was meditating 2-3 hours a day

[@KrishOP123]

I take SSRI and antipsychotic medicine for a year.now i have no symptoms no crash. I am back my energy level 60% but now no increase my energy level. Plz tell me how can increase my energy level in this time ?

[@indiabharat5014]

Start feeling the anxiety more deeply and don't numb it

[@KrishOP123]

@@indiabharat5014 app ko v CFS hai kia

[@1swisschick]

This is gold! Thank you so much for giving detailed explanations and examples of how to recover. I needed this! Question: when I focus on the feeling of back pain or overheating for example sometimes that symptom will intensify. What does this mean? It reminds me of the saying what you focus on gets bigger or grows. So I'm confused now. Can you explain? Thanks!

[@life.withkyle]

You're welcome! Don't worry about that, it will feel more intense because you're feeling it more directly, just stay with the pure sensation and allow it to be there, welcome it. What's happening now is you're reacting to a thought about the pain, the pain feels more intense so we slightly pull back and have the thought "oh no the pain is more intense, what does this mean?" but that thought is just a reaction to the sensation, so next time that happens try to notice "oh that's just a thought reacting to the sensation, can I go back to the sensation itsself and just stay there" and its key to stay aware because more thoughts will probably come, so notice thought and go back to just sensation. And do this all with kindness and acceptance, don't get upset if the thoughts come because that's just a new thought reacting to the thoughts now. Hope that's helpful :)

[@1swisschick]

Ok, good to know that can be a normal response. Thanks so much 🙏

[@Aaaaaalex09]

I've been there for 10 months. In month 6 I began to improve to the point that the only thing I had was anxiety. I started doing exercice without PEM, without POTS, just anxiety (strange, not normal anxiety, in the morning it was worse and at night it sometimes disappeared). 2 weeks ago I returned from a hotel beach, and the sensations in my legs returned (jelly legs), some pots, vibrations that I had not had until now and some dizziness. Just when I thought I had overcome it, having been normal for almost 2 months, for no apparent reason some symptoms have returned....

[@sherylmarshall1444]

You need to accept them or they will take over! That’s my experience just as I was improving bam nee symptoms. My body was reminding me I’m unwell but I don’t believe I am it’s just a hyper vigilant way to keep us safe. You’ve got this

[@loveishappiness7330]

Read the books by medical medium Anthony William. Start with his first book - Medical medium, You Can heal completely. You need to understand what causes your symptoms 🙏

[@Aaaaaalex09]

@@loveishappiness7330 i have all of them. Did you improve with MM???

[@stubousfield1352]

Hi mate nice videos - do you have any tips for free meditation resources, particularly those with a somatic focus or similiar

[@life.withkyle]

The app Waking Up is a great resource for meditation, there are some really nice guided meditations, probably the ones from Jayasara and Jitindrya are great for somatic stuff. The app usually costs money but they offer it for free to anyone who applies on the website Angelo Dilullo also has an app with some really good deep meditations called Simply Awake which is free Also guided yoga nidra meditation are nice for somatic scanning, the KZbin channel Ally Boothroyd has a lot of nice ones

[@stubousfield1352]

@@life.withkyle legend - just bought the Angelo book out of interest from your videos

[@loveyfife3622]

Kyle I really appreciate your videos x

[@life.withkyle]

🤍

[@claudioemilianoroig9681]

Yes 💯

[@Patsrivertosky]

Thank you.

[@life.withkyle]

You're welcome :)

[@maxitosh8465]

Fraud.

[@reasonmattersmost]

It is great that you found a way through your chronic illness. But do NOT judge other people's experience based on your own. Many of us already learned these lessons about how to manage our health and "do the work" long ago and still suffer. Chronic illness is not in your head unless it is mental illness. If you got better you were dealing with mental illness. You can NOT meditate your way out of physical disability friend. Your advice is not helpful and in fact for the millions of us who are disabled and have done the work and can scan our bodies and know what is here your lack of empathy is insulting.

[@indiabharat5014]

Keep trying.

[@reasonmattersmost]

@@indiabharat5014 stop gaslighting

[@indiabharat5014]

​@@reasonmattersmost the disease can't be defeated with an already defeated mindset. His method really works. I'm not a paid hack. Why don't you try to feel the resistance in CFS. The next thing you'll feel is incomprehensible terror and fear. Now learn to feel it and sit with it. Bw compassionate towards it. Slowly your symptoms will reduce but anxiety might increase. Follow the DARE response and use mindfulness to resolve anxiety. Try to feel the underlying emotions without resistance and get back to his videos with a fresh mind. The disease is not in your mind but through the mind the disease is manifested and can be reversed.

[@nestechen]

@@reasonmattersmostWhy do some people believe the mind is separate from the body?? What you believe in always creates reality. That doesn’t mean you heal overnight. But I experienced it myself, that whenever my fatigue got bad, and I told myself everything is alright, I’m healthy, and staying. Calm… the fatigue doesn’t get as bad as usually.

[@reasonmattersmost]

@@nestechen That is because you are dealing with mental illness not a physical illness. And gaslighting people who can't breath their way out of horrible physical symptoms is not just naive. It is mean.

[@maxitosh8465]

You’re taking absolute horse manure….you basically just said that you recovered from Long Covid. Which obviously isn’t true.

[@Atlas.Valiants]

How so?

[@maxitosh8465]

No one has recovered from LC….this guy probably didn’t even have it. He just saying he did to get followers….tons of stuff like this going on right now.

[@life.withkyle]

I had long covid for 2 years and I did recover fully, it's most certainly possible

[@ezza1236]

I’m interest to know what you think about my situation Kyle I think my stress was also triggered by feeling emotionally trapped in a job work/relationship ,for years I’ve felt like this even before the long covid. Is it also key to regonise emotional stressors and make decisions, maybe removing things in ur life that make you feel emotionally trapped, no matter how many boundaries I set my brain still feels trapped, I’ve decided that the only solution is the cut my job and remove the type of clients from my job, I think sometimes think the brain is not happy and sends messages as warnings to make a change

[@life.withkyle]

Yeah for sure, sometimes you need to make some big changes I had to end a relationship and drop my studies, both very tough decisions but a part of me knew I had to because I was really just avoiding facing the difficult stuff

[@ezza1236]

@@life.withkyle is it kind of like you had to drop of them to actually face what you needed to and then also heal ? Because I’m wondering if you could have actually stripped that away and then come back to things like studying, not the relationship ofcourse 😂

[@life.withkyle]

@@ezza1236 yeah exactly, I was too afraid to do those things for a long time because I was afraid to face the unknown, but I knew I had to so fighting that was causing me lots of stress because I was repressing stuff And yeah for sure I could back and study now that I've faced what I need to, maybe I will just not a priority at the moment

[@ezza1236]

@@life.withkyle for me I think I’m in the exact same place, I finally made the decision to cut my full time job with my toxic clients, I’ve been so afraid to leave because of the security and money, also stepping into the unknown, no more security, but I think I needed to face this and let go of the fear. This job was causing me to suffer and also feel so emotionally trapped. I think the brain can’t heal unless you decide to make a change.

[@andybreedlove]

I’m afraid to leave my relationship, but I know it’s 50% of my stressor at least 😑 I don’t want to be alone, but my partner is so emotionally draining on me to get well that it’s keeping me stuck. We have been together 4 years, and on paper it could be the greatest relationship, but since being bedridden a year, it’s changed and become toxic through no fault of anyone, just through mounting frustration and hurt 😞 if I were not sick, we would be great, but illness has changed us both. When I meditate I get the sense I need to let her go to save myself - and I’m not good at being selfish. She has put her life on hold and all out for me trying to support us through this - but I’m getting sicker and my cns is beyond fried. All the stress and arguments are keeping me bedridden and detached. It’s crazy, I can’t believe the situation.