Hey Jim,
Hair-triggered on self-cure? Can you expound on this for me? Never heard of a doctor who cured anyone. People who don't depend on others to heal their own biology might even be better suited to achieve results with your method, however, if your interest is to see how successful your method is when other people experiment with it, the results you are looking for might be skewed.
I discovered my method or way after having a pounding migraine, which as a youth, would turn into terrible episodes of heaving and a few days of disorientation and rest. One could say, discovering this method while doing yoga was inevitable. An effect of careful discernment and a strong opposition to the debilitating pain of a migraine headache.
You just relax the nervous system towards and even into the yogic sleep. You turn off the nervous system so the pain cannot be felt, yet you are awake. After a couple minutes of relaxation the pain sort of vanished, suddenly. I eventually found myself laughing at some comedy show on TV as I lay there. I thought to myself, what instant and profound relief. To be able to have laughter rise up through this body while having a severe migraine. Seriously, wow. But as soon as I moved or got up the pain came flooding back in. It was almost instant, like flicking a switch.
As my ability to move energy increased, I would merge my attention with the pain, thereby causing it to either cover up the pain or relax the nervous system until pain signals stopped firing off in the brain. The ability to cultivate energy and apply it helped me to stay up and on my feet more during an attack. You are still disoriented, somewhat dazed and confused, but without the extreme sensation of pain pulsating in your head.
The method or way I am using might be better suited for an attack, while a person is in sever anguish. My opinion is that yoga practice, done over time, will decrease migraine intensity and frequency. So you have a direct and indirect approach to treating it. It sounds like, to me, that your method would be good for treating an attack as well as helping to cleanse the nervous system, shortening the time of the attack and acting as a preventative.
I found that any manipulation of the head during an attack either affects the pain or ceases it. The affect is usually good, but there have been a few times where it didn't help and the pain became a level 10 migraine. Don't know if I caused it or helped it, as the 10's do happen now and again. So if you do get migraines, and you try any method, take very careful mental notes of what you do.
I'll be sure to try your method out next time I get a migraine, to give you some feedback.
Sparkle,
Most of my life, the pain would be so bad that I would just pass out. This is what most people do. They darken a room, lay still, and go unconscious. So I'm still doing the same deal as most people, just remaining conscious when doing so. If you aren't a yogi, use an ice pack in that dark room. Vibrations help, and so does a tight band around the head. Apply pressure mainly from the sides, if the pain warrants.
It may be hard for your son to relax himself, but if you can come up with a clever way to lead him through some deep breaths, you might help him move into a space where he can drift comfortably to sleep until the episode passes. If it is a really bad one, he most likely will just pass right out.
I recall a strange experience, when I was 6 or 7. I was in the nurses office, and the headache pain was so bad. It hurt so terribly, and inside I felt like a trapped or cornered animal, in severe pain. I had no way out, no prayer seemed to help. And then my mind focused on the pain, and a voice started speaking in my head, saying what is this. Where is this thing that hurts me? Where is it touching me? Then the pain stopped hurting me. And for only a few moments I sat there, feeling the sensations, but not interpreting them as pain. I thought, this cannot hurt me. I gasped to myself, shocked at this discovery. I forgot all about those few moments until decades later, after learning yoga. Yoga became a context for understanding this old momentary blip of intuition and concentration.
