Topic: Energy Envelope and Pacing
Aids to Pacing, Part 1
How to use personalized rules and guidelines.
Aids to Pacing, Part 2
How to use timers, pedometers, heart rate monitors and other devices.
Expanding My Envelope: How I Balanced Work and CFIDS
Kristin Scherger describes how she was able to expand her energy envelope by changing careers.
Finding Your Energy Envelope, Part 1
Describes a system for understanding your limits and offers two techniques for expanding them. (First of two articles.)
Finding Your Energy Envelope, Part 2
How to develop a detailed understanding of your envelope. (Second of two articles on gaining control by honoring the body’s limits.)
Five Ways to Expand Your Energy Envelope
How to expand your activity level without increasing symptoms.
Getting the Most from Limited Energy
How Nancy Fortner uses routines to improve her quality of life.
How I Gained Hope and Control: Pacing for the Bedbound Patient
Geraldine Blackman describes how her use of pacing brought structure and purpose to her life.
How I Use Pacing to Manage CFS
Bianca Veness's seven pacing strategies.
How I Use Routine to Successfully Manage Fibromyalgia
How FM patient Joan Buchman uses routine to control symptoms.
Key 4: Nurture Yourself with Pre-Emptive Rest
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 Limits
Living within your energy envelope offers an alternative to repeated cycles of push and crash.
Living Within My Envelope: A How-To Story
JoWynn Johns describes how she reduced her symptoms and brought stability to her life by finding and honoring her body's limits.
Making a NOT TO DO List
One way to improve quality of life is by having a NOT TO DO list, suggests guest author Eunice Beck.
Managing Your Energy Envelope
How to determine your energy profile plus nine strategies for managing your energy. (Originally published in the CFIDS Chronicle.)
My Energy Bank Account
How a simple pacing strategy allowed Vicki Lockwood to reduce her symptoms and gain control of her life.
Pacing by Numbers: Using Your Heart Rate To Stay Inside the Energy Envelope
How to control symptoms by staying within your anaerobic threshold.
Pacing for Special Events: Slaying the Dragon of Post Exertional Malaise
A three-part series describing how to use pacing to avoid relapses triggered by travel, the holidays and other non-routine events.
Pacing: A Young Person's View
Guest author Ingebjorg Dahl shows you how to use pacing to smooth out the CFIDS roller coaster.
Pacing: An Alternative to Push and Crash
Pacing provides a way to live a more stable and predictable life.
Pacing: What It Is and How to Do It
A series of eight articles with practical strategies for finding and adapting to limits, plus pacing success stories.
Pedometers: A Tool for Pacing
Having trouble defining your limits? Consider counting your steps using a pedometer.
Third Time's a Charm: How I Learned to Pace Myself
It took three tries, but Rosemary Rowlands learned to use pacing to gain stability, reduce her symptoms and expand her activity level.
Will Rest Make Me Less Productive?
No, it's likely to increase how much you get done by reducing your relapses.
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