Mahalo Tasha...just the support I need for now.  Head on accident in 1964 with booze and pills for the pain until my neuro-surgeon did the unimanigable...taking me off of all of my meds and refusing to cut me because he knew it would make things worse.   "Jerry most people cannot stand much less walk into this office under the med load you are under".  I came to understand chemical tolerance later on in college and also why my body didn't show the affect of mind and mood altering chemicals including alcohol while my body was being altered without suspicion.  What happened then was the "God thing" we speak of in AA.  Without my awareness I was given new direction that fit squarely within my personality of inquizitiveness for strange methods.  Psyco-Cybernetics given to me by a fellow co-worker in NASA in Honolulu.  The door to working the spiritual aspect of life was open and the confirmation to my belief that we are really much more than the human persons we think we are.  We are way more than that idea.  My physical existance is not as prime as I use to think.  Actually the spiritual aspect is prime and can and will do much more powerful and necessary work than anything else.  

On 11/8/11 I was assaulted by the local police and that assault erased all of the prior physical healing I've earned since 1971.  As an older person the reversal was much more traumatic than when I was 22.  My body now screams when It wants me to stop using it and to engage within my spiritual healing.   I get more than just relief from pain because spiritual healing is much more "whole person"  than specialized treatment.  Every asset we have works together to put us back into pain free health.  The program is part of the healing process for me also because of the spiritual, mental and emotional tools...faith, commitment, patience, acceptance, release, serenity and more.  Am I also using MD.s ?  yes...as secondary support...the inside solutions are primary.  I have surprised the professionals from what I practice which has been offered and given to me from so many peoples and levels in my recovery.  I practice constantly not only as a result of the pain and as a result of the relief from fear and anxiety of the pain.  

There are only two differences between you and I; age and gender...some might say that "two ups me" lol and then my belief is that you have exactly the tools and power and opportunity to use them as I have had.   BACK PAIN SUCKS SO BADLY and it is only temporary...only as long as you want it to be present.  I know...sounds trite and then for me it's not trite at all.  

Powerful statement..."You are a child of God" and therefore without limits.

In support.  ((((Hugs)))) 

I went for emergency surgery because my motorcycle and I couldn't decide which way to get out of a sure accident and sure enough it was a sure accident.  My ankle was broken and a long witnessed miracle was in the making.  The short of it was that when I came to in the recovery room I refused the morphine over RN and MDs insistence and did so throughout the night.  In the  morning I was visited by the surgeon who was beside himself because I didn't follow prescription...however I told him I don't do "that" any more and another thing there was no pain at all.  He insisted that the ankle surgery was the most painful to go thru because of the weight the ankle had to carry and still I told him "no pain".  He looked at me quizzically and said that "there is something going on here I don't understand"..."See I know why you were brought in to the hospital, I met you at the ambulance".  "I know there was a break and why I had to put in 6 pins and screws"   He held up the xray from admittance and sure enough there it was and it was broken.  I was trying to follow his story and he continued, "...only now I don't know why I had to do it".  He showed the post op xray and sure enough there wasn't any sign of a break.  "I know I'm a good surgeon and I teach it at the University, but there is something bigger than me going on here."   He left and in walked the anesthesiologist who just happened to be a man I sponsored in recovery.  He had his own story which included having to kneel on my chest to get the tubes into my face so that I could be operated on.  "Did you know that the tubes in your face are all very small"?  I did and said so.  "I almost pushed you off the operating table onto the floor on the second try".   "I came to say I'm sorry for the pain in your adnoids and throat because of that".   "Bill there is no pain" I responded and added this event to more than several others where HP has given me mercy and grace from harder times than I and others were expecting.  We are blessed.   Keep coming back cause it works.  ((((hugs)))) 

LOL...couple of years ago I went in for eye surgery (not a biggie) and after the surgery the nurse wanted to hold me in the recovery room because my BP was high.  I asked her to check again and she looked and then turned back to me, "Did you do that"?   I just laughed and didn't venture into the "No I'm pretty well taken care of by others".  Actually Pap...we are a pretty spiritual lot...just have to believe and then "act as if".    The act as if part is faith.   Keep coming back....