A Drug-Free Solution to Migraines

I know from personal experience that migraine headaches can be debilitating. I’ve had a history of migraines, along with both of my parents.

Drugs may offer relief but do not address the underlying cause of migraines.

If we’re not addressing the cause they’ll keep returning and we’ll keep relying on medications for relief. Their cost, toxicity, and potentially addictive qualities can also be significant drawbacks.

I’ll share the approach to treating migraines that has worked for me and for many patients over the years. Ideally, we can prevent, or at least reduce the frequency of migraines.

Treating migraines as if they were a symptom of a neurological or brain imbalance (like most other chronic complaints) has produced consistently positive results. If the brain is not functioning in an integrated fashion symptoms of imbalance, like migraines, are created and are likely to persist.

Restoring Brain Integration

The good news is that it doesn’t take a neurologist to restore brain integration. What it does takes is someone who’s willing to become consciously aware of the sensations and feelings they experience in their bodies. Conscious awareness of bodily felt experience is what activates the brain’s main integration center, the middle prefrontal cortex.

This center can’t be activated through intellectual knowing or understanding, but only through feeling.

The general heading for this type of conscious experiencing is probably best described as mindfulness or somatic awareness. In my practice, I’ve used this mindfulness orientation, which I combine with acupuncture, successfully for years in the treatment of migraines.

I’ve started calling my specific set of mindfulness-based techniques SomaSensing.

These practices balance subtle energies, like the acupuncture meridians and chakras, as well as balancing the brain.

Here’s an interesting article about one woman’s experience of overcoming migraines with the aid of acupuncture and yoga.

Regards!