Topic: Energy Envelope and Pacing
Pacing is often recommended as a strategy for gaining control of symptoms and bringing stability. But how do you do it? This article describes what students have found helpful.
Kristin Scherger describes how she was able to expand her energy envelope by changing careers.
Describes a system for understanding your limits and offers two techniques for expanding them. (First of two articles.)
How to develop a detailed understanding of your envelope. (Second of two articles on gaining control by honoring the body’s limits.)
How to expand your activity level without increasing symptoms.
Bruce Campbell describes how developing a detailed understanding of his limits enabled him to control his symptoms and expand his limits.
How Nancy Fortner uses routines to improve her quality of life.
Geraldine Blackman describes how her use of pacing brought structure and purpose to her life.
Bianca Veness's seven pacing strategies.
How FM patient Joan Buchman uses routine to control symptoms.
Pre-emptive rest is a simple technique that can help reduce symptoms and make life more stable. (From the series 10 Keys to Successful Coping.)
Living within your energy envelope offers an alternative to repeated cycles of push and crash.
JoWynn Johns describes how she reduced her symptoms and brought stability to her life by finding and honoring her body's limits.
One way to improve quality of life is by having a NOT TO DO list, suggests guest author Eunice Beck.
How a simple pacing strategy allowed Vicki Lockwood to reduce her symptoms and gain control of her life.
How to control symptoms by staying within your anaerobic threshold.
Guest author Ingebjorg Dahl shows you how to use pacing to smooth out the CFIDS roller coaster.
Pacing provides a way to live a more stable and predictable life.
A series of eight articles with practical strategies for finding and adapting to limits, plus pacing success stories.
It took three tries, but Rosemary Rowlands learned to use pacing to gain stability, reduce her symptoms and expand her activity level.
