Conquer migraine headaches! It’s good for your health

If you were a migraine sufferer, would you  want to just ‘manage’ headaches,  or permanently conquer them? I know what my preference would be! It’d be complete freedom from them. My choice isn’t based on pie-in-the-sky thinking. Despite the view that this ailment remains incurable, there is a way to conquer migraine headaches, and it’s good for your health.

My Story
As a child, I experienced severe migraine headaches. My parents tried to find a cure for them. Doctors were consulted, drugs prescribed, and treatments undertaken. Numerous theories were put forward as to possible causes – including a theological suggestion that it was God’s will for me! Finally, we accepted the medical diagnosis that the headaches were triggered by a particular food. I stopped eating it. The headaches diminished in number, but they certainly weren’t cured. This left me with the unhappy prospects of living with pain for the rest of my life, and avoiding the particular food.

Seeking a permanent cure
While seeking a permanent cure for me, my mother heard about a different approach to obtaining good health – a thought-based, spiritual one, that highlighted the connection between one’s thinking and wellbeing.

We decided to try it, and learned that a change in my thinking was necessary. If I believed that a certain food could adversely affect me, then I’d always live in fear of it and suffer from eating it. To gain the freedom I longed for, I needed to think less about stomachs and aching heads, and more about the spiritual facts concerning health and well-being.  So that’s what I did.

Taking control of health
As a young person, it was heartening to learn that I could take charge of my thinking and wellness.  I didn’t have to live in fear of headache attacks or feel helpless and hopeless. I could take control of my health. This encouraged me to believe that I could:

– conquer fear of headaches and stop being afraid of food.

– turn thought away from bodily conditions; stop looking for “headache triggers” and measuring the intervals between them.

– act on this empowering instruction, “Take possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action.  Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good.” Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health p. 393.

Embracing spiritual concepts
My mother and I also learned that because there’s a connection between mind, body and Spirit, I could conquer migraine headaches by embracing spiritual concepts. Such ideas have the power to change thinking, correct negative beliefs about the source of health, rectify bodily disorders, improve health, and heal sickness. These made me realize that:

– I had the divine right to be well.

– I wasn’t condemned to a life of suffering while others were blessed with a life of health.

– I’d been made perfectly healthy and well and was being maintained in my original state of perfect wellness.

– I had the ability to exercise mastery over the body, to be free from illness and live a normal life.

Finding freedom
What was the effect on me of taking up this approach?  The fear of headaches diminished. My health improved. Months later I realized I couldn’t remember the last time I’d had a migraine. The entire thought of it had gone. That was the end of the headaches. I started eating the food I once feared was the trigger for the migraines. It had no harmful effect. It’s now more than four decades since I quit ‘managing’ pain and conquered migraine headaches. I’ve not only found better health, but my freedom from suffering has been permanent.