A man visiting Santa Fe from back East came to see me, and impressed me with his self-healing technique. He told me he was a sufferer of “cluster headaches” since he was thirteen. They’re also known as “suicide headaches” because people have killed themselves to get out of the pain. Women say the pain is worse than childbirth. They happen in a cluster for weeks or months, and then stop.
This is what he does that is very successful for him, and he’s tried every kind of doctor and medicine. ( I asked him if he had five headaches, how often did this method work, and he said: “Every time.”.)
The headaches often wake him up out of a sleep. His eyes open with a start because all of a sudden the pain is there, and immediately, he gets down out of the bed and on the floor and does push-ups until he can’t do any more. This puts a lot of adrenalin in his system. Then he puts an icepack against the headache, holding it in the palm of his hand, especially the lower part. When he can’t stand holding the ice any longer, he takes it off the headache but holds the ice in the palm of his hand a minute longer.
He thinks the endorphins and adrenaline this produces stops the headache.
The crucial part is to start doing push-ups the moment the pain starts. If you wait past about 4 minutes it doesn’t work. He also stressed the importance of icing the lower part of the palm.
I hope this helps someone!
