My Brain Retraining Story
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 6 years
- Published
- Sep 2018
Summary
She practiced the Gupta Programme's limbic retraining for several months, including daily 20-minute breathing meditation, NLP-style hand motions, and "soften and flow" visualization. She had been severely ill with ME/CFS for about six years, housebound and camping to avoid mold, with post-exertional malaise, brain fog, and chemical/food reactivity. She reports no benefit credited to the program itself; stopping it after a difficult winter brought "a huge weight lifted off my shoulders" rather than any loss of gains. She separately let her mold-avoidance vigilance lapse, which triggered a sharp relapse into severe fatigue, brain fog, swollen lymph nodes, and liver pain within months. She required an immediate return to strict mold avoidance to recover functioning, with no ongoing role for the Gupta program in her maintenance.
What they credit
Credits Brain retraining programs (DNRS, Gupta, ANS Rewire, Primal Trust), Meditation, yoga, breathwork, Mold avoidance / CIRS protocol, Neurolinguistic programming (NLP).
Symptoms mentioned
Symptoms: Brain fog, Flu-like symptoms, Pain & fibromyalgia, Post-exertional malaise.
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