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Using Make-Up As A Mindfulness Exercise To Help With Chronic Pain
Sunday 20 September 2020
 Chloe Sargeant applied incidental mindfulness — the practice of incorporating mindfulness into your everyday activities — to make-up. (Supplied: Chloe Sargeant/ABC Life: Luke Tribe) |
Using make-up as a mindfulness exercise to help with chronic pain
Two years ago, I was sent to a chronic pain clinic.
For nearly eight years I had begged innumerable GPs and specialists for help because I was in permanent, debilitating pain, as well experiencing erratic symptoms including fatigue, cognitive issues, tremors and mobility issues.
I was eventually diagnosed with fibromyalgia, an incurable condition that means my nervous system malfunctions and sends incorrect signals to my brain.
My pain psychologist recommended a series of management exercises, including pacing and meditation, but I quickly returned to her with some bad news — I couldn't meditate.
I'd looked up every meditation tip and trick on the internet and downloaded every app that offered guided sessions, but no matter what I did I couldn't quieten the permanent broadcast in my mind.
My clinical anxiety was getting in the way. So instead, she introduced me to incidental mindfulness: the practice of incorporating mindfulness into your everyday activities. I quickly started practising two of my favourite activities: cooking and playing Animal Crossing.
However, a burgeoning new hobby would soon become my favourite and most successful way of practising mindfulness: make-up.
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