1. ME / CFS And Spirituality - A Journey

CFS and Spirituality follows on from Full List of Articles on Living With M.E..

CFS is also known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.).
ME is my preferred term for the illness.

The advice on this page is useful for living with any chronic illness, as well as for anyone pursuing the spiritual journey.


This Page: Articles On Spiritual and ME/CFS:

Illness And Spirituality

ME/ CFS And Spirituality

My Main Spiritual Practices

Other Spiritual/Psychological Approaches I Used For Living With M.E.

• Self dialogues


• Inner child work


• Guided Inner journeys

Illness and Spirituality

The spiritual journey can be pursued whatever our level of health or illness.

Physical challenges can actually be an advantage in our spiritual growth as they motivate us to experiment with a source of strength beyond the physical.

"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness."
(2 Corinthians 12:9, KJV esword)

Living with chronic illness, I became very motivated to develop a practical spirituality. I needed a strength beyond my own to help me survive, find peace and hopefully recover.

ME/ CFS And Spirituality

Please also see Recovery From ME/CFS. The spiritual approaches listed on that page led to my recovery from severe ME/CFS. They also allowed me to keep my sanity and live with chronic illness for those very difficult years.

My Main Spiritual Practice

• My practice of releasing judgement. This is both a practice of forgiveness and acceptance.

• Asking for guidance combined with handing over the immediate circumstances of my life. (Spiritual guidance is also received through all the spiritual practices listed.)
• A Course In Miracles - especially doing the workbook cards each day
• The Bible - reading a daily devotional and listening to Christian radio
• Joined prayer of agreement for healing, care needs and housing.
• Asking for guidance from the Holy Spirit. Asking the Holy Spirit to flow through me and decide for me.
• Cultivating trust that I am guided by God
• Forgiveness
• Blessing
• Unity consciousness - we are one



• Prayer - including quotes from the Bible and A Course In Miracles and Christian prayers.
• Affirmations
• Visualisation

Other spiritual practices are listed below. These might also be termed psychological practices, and may well be acceptable to those who don't see themselves as being spiritual.

Self dialogues

I set out on a journey to learn to talk to myself in a supportive, encouraging way.

There is an overlap here with the Lightning Process™ which teaches a process called self-coaching.

Often when we have M.E. or any other illness we are annoyed at ourselves for being ill and for all those things we cannot do. It is so important that we develop an inner voice that is supportive and loving.

Click here for a page on how to talk with love to myself.

Inner child work

Guided Inner journeys

Mostly, I used the excellent tapes of Gill Edwards which can be found at LivingMagically.com.

These guided inner journeys were amazing for allowing me to access my own internal wisdom. My physical world was very small due to having M.E. And yet, I was able to journey far in my mind and develop my creativity.

I was able to tap the rich resources of my subconscious and the even richer sources of Divine Wisdom.

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