I found that even I got nervous or breathing fast, that looking for “the positives” about what I wanted or needed to do made a big difference.
Remember it is something about what you have to do that makes you nervous. If your thoughts and view on the subject change then you are not so nervous about it and you will breath easier.
I dislike injections, and when they remove blood, so I convince myself that the pain and discomfort will be worth it for the end results.
And thinking like that calms me down.
In the dentist chair waiting for the dentist I lay back, and even though I hate the injections, drills, pain blood etc, I know is possibly coming, I relax by stretching out, relaxing my body and breathing in gently and slowly in my nose, and out my mouth. By the time the dentist comes I am ready, calm and relaxed.
Once I showed my breathing down so much and was so rested that when the dentist pulled out a tooth he was upset and worried that I wasn’t bleeding. It was because I had slowed down my breathing totally, and the blood flowed slowly through my body. Houdini the magician used to do this.
The greatest pain that I have been tested with is when they scrapped my teeth below gum level. I couldn’t afford the injections and the pain was stunning and very intense.
I would stumble out of the dentist, and sometimes I nearly fainted. I had to have this done every 3 months for years. One dental assistance was in tears watching the blood, my face (which I tried to keep deadpan do as not to frighten her), and seeing the obvious pain that I was in. I felt so sorry for the poor woman having to watch this.
I hated this treatment, it was intensely unbearable, as he would use the steel scraper all the way down to the roots of the teeth, all the way to the nerves and detaching the gum from the teeth, and scraping up abs down.
I had to really get myself prepared for these terrifying appointments. Please remember that I am super sensitive to pain. So this was really a struggle for me.
But I did it. And I would do deep breathing walking in for the appointment, and breathing in the chair waiting for the dentist. And when he came in I just held onto the armrests and stared at the ceiling while he did his job.
I just told myself that I would have no teeth of he didn’t do this, and even while it was happening I would give myself positive talk. Today I have my own teeth because of this, and I don’t need those treatments anymore.
I am telling you that if I could deal with that and go back again and again, then you can handle what you can do. Just look at it for the value gained.
If it is worth it then do it.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
Tuesday, 19 May 2015, 1:42:58 PM.