Resolution

From Fiona -

I have suffered from fibromyalgia for a 7 year period. Over this time I have tried many different types of medication for pain relief, referral to pain clinics, acupuncture and various alternative therapies most of which were ineffective or effective only for short periods.

I mentioned to Olivia that I was suffering from regular disabling pain which made my life miserable whilst she was treating me for something else and she suggested that resolution therapy might help with the pain. I was highly cynical but happy to give anything a go!

Through regular use of the resolution technique I have managed to reduce the pain to the point where I now only suffer a low and manageable level of pain and only on occasional days do I need to resort to pain relief. Indeed in warmer weather my symptoms have stopped completely. This has totally changed my life which was previously dominated by the misery of constant pain.

We may not fully understand how the brain can affect the body but clearly it can. This is such a clear case of the success resolution therapy can achieve with physical ailments that I would not hesitate to recommend Olivia to anyone.

I was very apprehensive about trying the therapy at first as I think most people are. I approached Olivia as she had been recommended to me and I believe this is very important. I consider that Olivia is a good person as well as an excellent practitioner and I have been confident putting my self into her safe hands.

Fiona Brickman, Bournemouth

Fiona is a member of the Resolution Panel.

Panel members are happy to speak to future clients.

ME Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

Fybromyalgia

Post Viral Fatigue 

Chronic Fatigue                           

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for ME, post viral and chronic fatigue & fybromyalgia

Resolution is a new technique that reduces many symptoms and conditions.  At first, it was used for migraine, and then it was discovered that the same technique worked for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and many more conditions.   People who had mastered the technique began to use it for many of their other problems, like tension, S.A.D (seasonally affected disorder), dips and sudden changes in mood e.g. outbursts of bad temper.  It was soon found that people who suffered from a complex multitude of these symptoms, like ME, also responded well to the Resolution techniques.  People who suffer from ME can have any combination of the NWS set of symptoms, and below are a few of the most common.

M.E. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

M.E. is a complex combination of symptoms, the predominant symptom being tiredness.   M.E. sufferers often also have migraine, and fibromyalgia, and the list of symptoms varies from person to person.  Number one in this case, of course, is always the tiredness, accompanied by varying degrees of pain, and varying types of pain.  The pain can be a dull ache in limbs, or any part of the body, on movement, relieved by keeping still, but not always, and this can be the only symptom that some sufferers have. It can also be accompanied by shooting or searing pain from limbs, or anywhere in the body.  The pain can be absent some days, or always present. 

I have not made a separate chapter for ME, as it includes fibromyalgia as well as migraine and IBS symptoms, in fact, as with any of the NWS conditions, a variety of symptoms are always included. 

Fibromyalgia

I wondered whether Fibromyalgia should appear in the neuralgia section, but it is often thought of as a very different condition.  Many doctors find this one particularly mysterious.  It seems to affect many nerves at the same time, with less searing pain, more a case of a severe, debilitating ache.

Fibromyalgia can appear alone, and is often also diagnosed as part of M.E. and other NWS conditions.  This is a painful condition that also involves some inflammation of some joints.  There are so many joints in the body.  Some of them are moveable joints, like the knee or the elbow, and others are called fixed joints, like the pelvic bones.  These joints are welded together with cartilage.  Sometimes fybromyalgia can affect almost every joint, and people can hardly move for it, ending up in wheelchairs. 

Quite often people can suffer for a couple of years, and then it seems to gradually reduce and usually people get right back to normal. The steroids given traditionally to help the pain and inflammation of fybromyalgia can also cause more problems.  They can cause weight gain, and a host of other side-effects, occasionally causing osteoporosis if used long-term.  As yet, we do not know how successful the Resolution Programme will be against fibromyalgia.  There have been so few fybromyalgia sufferers who have tried the programme.  As I write, Fiona is now using the programme for her Fibromyalgia.  She has been suffering from ME for many years, and over the last eighteen months, she has moved through many stages using the programme on headaches, heavy, painful arms, and recently on her dips in energy.  Last week, in November 2007, Fiona began to use the programme on an attack of fybromyalgia that always coincides with the damp weather conditions.  In my theory of Resolution, I believe that the NWS is sending a fan of electricity along a branching set of nerves.  Fiona told me she could feel the progression of a heavy, and at times painful sensation as it moved from her neck to her shoulder, and then on down through her arms to her hands and fingers.  She was able to direct the active sessions at the sensations, and gradually reduce them over a few weeks until they disappeared.

Post Viral Fatigue

Many people who suffered from the many different forms of NWS ( Neurological Wave Syndrome) had a clear instigating experience.   Sometimes it was trauma, like childbirth, and sometimes it began after a particularly bad illness, like chickenpox.  There were many who had no clear instigating experience, and they simply found that a slight headache just got worse and worse!

The Resolution Programme does not differentiate between the causes of these conditions.  It seems to work in the same way whatever the initiating reason.  It simply re-educates the system.

Muscle weakness/interference

Sometimes the words from other people describe symptoms more accurately.  Asa from Sweden described muscle weakness as follows:

I have noticed that my muscles lose in power from one day to another. For example I was packing a lot of books during a couple of years, and knew how it felt to lift 20 books. 20 books is 20 books, but it felt like if they where 20 kg heavier one day. The next day they were light like feathers; my arms almost flew up when I lifted the books.

In another account, a woman reported that her first sign of an imminent attack was that she would repeatedly drop anything she was carrying. When the attack arrived, there were other unusual symptoms too.  She could not feel anything at all in her hands and feet, and she also found that she was unable to speak. It was as if the migraine was interfering with her messages to her own muscles.

Tiredness, Exhaustion, chronic fatigue

Many NWS sufferers say that they feel a sense of their energy draining away, "as if someone has pulled out the plug". 

I used to get this feeling when I had episodes of IBS.  I could have just laid down and curled up on the pavement and gone to sleep.  The feeling used to come on suddenly, and then pass off after an hour or so.  A migraine sufferer said that when this feeling came over her, she had to stop driving her car wherever she was, and have a twenty-minute nap. 

Many people who are not NWS sufferers feel a similar lethargy after lunch, sometimes called the ‘one-o’clock dip’. 

For people who suffer from M.E. this as a prolonged, primary symptom. 

Tired and aching feet

Have you ever been having a quiet, uneventful day, and felt for a while that your feet were aching for no apparent reason?  Some people have find that this symptom is limiting their lives. 

Jenny described it as having the most painful of aching feet, after walking just a short while on a hard surface.  If Jenny walked across the countryside, she could walk much farther before it began.  The worst scenario for Jenny was simply standing still, when the pain would appear very quickly. 

The condition was so bad that it spoilt every day out.  It meant that Jenny was avoiding places like airports, busy times at shops, and any situation where there were queues. 

Over-activity

“I know when I am going to get an attack ”, said Claire, “Because I can’t stop doing things the day before.  I may feel tired inside, and yet there seems to be an excess of energy that I have to use.  I end up painting the ceilings, or digging the garden.  I used to think that this is what brought on an attack for me, but now I think that this is just a part of the syndrome.” 

How I agree with Claire.  This ‘symptom’ of over-activity was a clear early warning to Claire of an attack; it was not the cause of her attack.

Sudden onset of feelings of sadness or even despair

One of the feelings associated with migraine and ME is depression.  I realise that in the medical world the word depression holds a very special meaning.  Clinically depressed people have no rational explanation for their depression. 

The depressed feeling associated with NWS that I describe here has similarities, as it begins suddenly, out of the blue, even when everything in that person’s life may be coming up roses.  There is absolutely no logic.  Nothing has happened to make this feeling appear.  There are no sad thoughts associated with the feeling, no arguments, and no bad news, just an overwhelming feeling of depression without any foundation at all. 

This is what makes it so hard to describe to anyone who has never experienced it.  Some people suddenly begin to cry, even though they may have had a good day.  Some people lose all hope in whatever they are aiming for in their life.  Some people feel unworthy, useless, unlovable.  The most incomprehensible part of it is the lack of any logical foundation.  If someone else asks, “What have you got to be so sad about?” these people know that however they try to describe it, they won’t be understood. They know that any other person can’t know what this feeling of depression is all about. It simply has no foundation. The other characteristic is the suddenness of the onset of the feeling.  There isn’t a gentle lowering of mood.  It all happens in a few seconds, and down they go, all the way down into the worst feelings of despair.  For some people, this lasts a couple of hours and for others it can last for days, or, rarely, incredibly, for months on end.  How difficult is it for the rest of the family to live with this?  Children do not understand.  Partners can even forget the original personality hidden behind this depressed personality.  In NWS, this symptom can appear for a fleeting moment or for a few days, but it responds to the programme.

One of the more disturbing aspects to me of treatment for depression has been electric shock therapy.  I was surprised that this is still being used.  In this therapy, patients receive a significant, controlled, electric shock. Afterwards, many people say they that they feel much better for a while. 

Angela’s Description of a Dip in Mood

Some people say that they feel as though they are completely different people when their mood dips.  Angela describes her experience here of many years of this “dip in mood”. 

This is Angela’s story:

Suddenly, my daughter stopped the car and burst into tears.  I was in shock.  Eliza rarely cried, even as a child.  What on earth was going on?  “Do you realise how many times you have said that you will ‘slit your throat’ since I picked you up in this car?” she said.

My goodness.  Had I really said it that many times?  I was shocked back into my normal rational self for a few lucid moments.  When I was in my ‘down’ mood I found it difficult to stop constantly thinking the blackest of thoughts.  It felt like a weight bearing down on the top of my head.  I found it hard to lift my head, or my thoughts.  Every thought was the most negative aspect of that thought. For a few hours, or sometimes days, things would seem to be the very worst of everything, until I would feel the lift.  Then, like a weight being lifted off my head, I could feel the dark mood floating away, leaving me my normal self once again.

I had not realised that I had spoken about ‘slitting my throat’. What else could I have said when I was in that state?   In my normal self, I wouldn’t dream of saying words like that. 

I suddenly realised how much those words had affected my daughter. While I was in my blackness, I had assumed that everyone else was unaffected by anything I said, as if I was so insignificant that I was completely immaterial.  I had assumed that they did not care enough about me to even be listening to the words I said.  Shocked into my normal self, I was so sorry for hurting Eliza and vowed never to use that sort of phrase ever again, even in the blackest of moods. 

Angela describes the phenomenon, this dip in mood, the suddenness of its arrival, and its complete devastation of self-worth and hope.  Anyone who suffers from this syndrome who reads this book may be thinking, “Absolute nonsense.  It can’t be linked to migraine or IBS.  It must be something, a chemical imbalance, inside my head”.  The ‘chemical imbalance’ theory feels a better choice, until they try the programme, then they are truly amazed, as we all are, every time that it works.

Pessimism and Euphoria

Some people experience a really good feeling some time before an attack.  They may feel energetic, cleaning the car and doing the gardening as if they have extra energy.  They usually are aware of how ‘high’ they feel, but they know from experience that an attack is on the way.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, there is despair.  Total pessimism.  Some people feel this before an attack, or for a while during, or after an attack.  Then it lifts, as suddenly as it arrived.

During a migraine attack, most people feel as though they have lost all hope for a while.  After the attack, they begin to feel normal again.  However, if this dip happens outside of a migraine attack, who would link it to Neurological Wave Syndrome? 

Appearing all on its own, what would the diagnosis be?  Depression?  Bi-polar disorder?  A sudden dip in mood and a sudden lift of euphoria are possible indicators of bi-polar disorder.  There is much written about the ‘chemical imbalances’ of this illness.  Once again, I have to question the chicken and the egg.  Which came first?  Does the NWS cause the shift in mood, and the change in chemical messengers? 

There is a chemical change when women are ‘hormonal‘, when the body is getting ready for action, when it is resting and when it is about to eat.  The chemical changes happen in anticipation of a change, or as a result of the change.  There are chemical messengers sending signals all around the body all of the time.  When people are very happy, they produce ‘happy chemical’.  It’s not surprising that very sad people show chemicals that reflect their ‘sad’ state.  I do not believe that these people are born with a chemical imbalance, and I do not believe that a sinister disease has caused them to develop a chemical imbalance. People with a diagnosis of bi-polar disorder are fully expected to return back to normal in time.  I believe this is simply another symptom of NWS.  Many people using Resolution have been able to change their ‘artificial’ mood back to normal.  It remains to be seen if Resolution can help people with diagnosed bi-polar disorder.

Anger, irritation, laughter, and elation

When people begin Resolution, they begin to look for really early signs that a migraine might be starting.  Sometimes it is other people, friends or members of the family, who notice changes that happen before an attack.  These can be changes in tolerance or behaviour.  One mother noticed that her daughter lost her temper with no real provocation on the day preceding an attack.  Other clients have reported some pleasant experiences.  Quite a few have reported feeling a sense of unreasonable happiness on the day before, and one lady even said that she felt ‘giggly‘.  Sometimes people feel extraordinarily energetic, and they wonder whether they cause the attack by their over-activity.  However, this is not the case.  In my opinion, the over-activity is caused by the NWS, not the other way around.  It is as if a tiny wave of neurological activity is travelling into the part of the brain that is responsible for euphoria or energy.

Neurological Wave Syndrome Theory

In 2004 I began to help people to gradually reduce all of their symptoms linked with migraine down to nil, using a very different technique, called Resolution. (Bear with me, this does have relevance to ME and fybromyalgia too).

Migraine begins with a wave of neurological activity, a pulse of electricity, that runs along a nerve and discharges wherever that nerve ends.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome also begins with a wave of neurological activity and this time the bowel receives the blast of electricity - and it hurts!   The greater the electricity, the more it hurts.  Small electrical pulses can cause aching, rather than shear pain. 

The reactions of migraine headache and IBS (diarrhoea, bloating and flatulence), couldn't be more diverse, but they both have the same originator - that phantom blast of electricity.

Now, you may be wondering why I am talking about migraine and IBS now, well you would never guess, but when people begin using Resolution for their migraine or IBS, they also had many other symptoms of other conditions, and some of them had fybromyalgia or ME!

Some people said that if they didn't have migraine, they had their fybromyalgia.  That was curious.  We also noticed that some people had many different symptoms at different times.  Everyone who knew how to use Resolution techniques use them for every symptom they had - including all of their ME symptoms!

We knew that the wave of neurological activity could change route, as many people can feel it changing when they are using the Resolution techniques.  Sometimes it changed quickly, from one minute to the next.  It was as if the electricity was jumping from one nerve to another.  the symptoms were so very different, and yet the cause was the same - the wave of neurological activity.

Resolution is a technique to reduce the wave of neurological activity.  We found it worked for a multitude of symptoms and conditions.  As you can imagine, this technique is so new and so different, it takes some getting used to!

The good thing about Resolution is that it is a procedure. It isn't faith healing.   You don't have to believe in it for it to work.  You just have to follow the instructions. 

It's easy to learn it, with a CD and regular telephone coaching sessions.  I make these personally, and I have others who are trained to coach when I am too busy.  At first you hear from me every week, and as you learn the routine, you will also be given new techniques for particular occasions. 

It is so exciting and its easy to learn.  At first you will be working hard to repeat the exercises at regular intervals, but as your condition eases, you spend less time on it, until, like me, you can send away any symptom in just a few moments.

The Resolution Programme has three Components

- Relaxation Sessions, Active Sessions and Telephone Coaching

The Resolution Programme consists of two sets of mental exercises; the "Relaxation Session" and the "Active Sessions".  These will be sent to you, or you can download the MP3 files, and the written notes will be posted or e-mailed to you.

The tutorial will take you less than one hour in total.  The first 20-minute CD contains the "Relaxation exercises" - but you will not be 'relaxing' these unwanted feelings away.  Once you have listened to the first CD, and followed the guided exercises on it, you will begin the second part of the process.  Guided by the telephone coaching, you will be taught very simple techniques that will re-educate your system. 

You will need to re-read the material, or listen to the audio occasionally as a reminder.

Mental Exercises

The subconscious works for us in many ways, running our automatic systems of the body for us, storing our experiences as memories, and also storing our daily skills for us, like driving or typing on a keyboard, so that we can do them 'without thinking'.  The subconscious, far from being locked away inside our brains, is working and active all of the time.  It can learn new skills, store new memories, and change the automatic systems of our physical bodies.  So often, these three areas overlap and influence each other.  Resolution teaches you to use a set of simple exercises to re-educate your own subconscious so that it changes the reactions of the automatic nervous system. 

Relaxation Session

During the Relaxation session, various guided mental exercises are done while you simply relax.  It is a very pleasant experience.  The relaxation session only requires to be done once, but it can be repeated without detriment, and possibly with a little extra benefit.  The Relaxation Session is available on a CD, or MP3 so that you can listen to it in your own armchair at home, and let your own subconscious do the work! 

Active Sessions

Active Sessions are the second part of Resolution, and  consist of an easily learnt set of simple mental exercises that have to be repeated to remind the system to change until it behaves correctly.  When there are no symptoms, you do nothing at all.

Telephone Coaching

Without the telephone coaching, you are unlikely to get through this programme. For this reason, I recommend everyone to opt for the 'full package'. You will receive regular telephone coaching sessions, beginning weekly in the beginning.

Monitoring the success of the programme

Everyone is encouraged to keep a record of the intensity, duration and frequency of their symptoms.  A chart is provided in the pack.  Surprisingly, you will be able to watch how your symptoms - yes, all of your ME symptoms, will gradually diminish over a period of time. 

You are welcome to telephone to discuss your symptoms, and to speak to a past client from the panel.

Yes - there is a panel of past clients!

The panel is made up of many clients who have experienced Resolution, and have offered to speak to future clients.  They realise how difficult it is to believe that anything can help some conditions.  You can also read the case histories section for examples of these people.

Discover how other people have benefited from Resolution by reading the case histories, and watching the videos.

The videos of interviews on this website should be available in the case history section - if they fail to load, please send me an email.

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