Discover my HeilÜben exercises in basics, technique, and application firsthand.
Here, I share my experience of practising in uncovering and eliminating harmful stress and tension hidden behind my pain and inflammation.
It led to improved proprioception and the healing of my rheumatoid arthritis (RA)/chronic polyarthritis (CP). To encompass that I was practising figuring out how to heal myself, I named my exercises HeilÜben [combining the German words for healing and exercising].
In my view, the quality of my proprioception under the influence of stress and overload was the cause of my inflammatory joint disease. Therefore, I named it overload-induced rheumatoid arthritis.
Through my body postures and movements, I learned to distinguish between healthy tension and relaxation, on the one hand, and excessive tension and its consequences, on the other.
Affected by RA, I dearly wished I could get well again. I went down a long and painful road through life with the inflammatory joint disease until I realised that I could help myself to fulfil my desire for health.
I had reached a point where I had understood that medication wasn’t going to cure my RA. At that point, I was used to pain that made my thoughts stop. As if I wasn’t just in pain, but was nothing but pain, especially at night. I stopped trying to push the pain away and began to consciously and attentively experience it, and through that, experience myself more intensively. From my pain, I learned how to reduce it.
In a variety of situations, I practised and discovered that, along with the pain, I could also influence the inflammation that had triggered it.
Through trial and error, I learned to recognise the effectiveness of my healing exercises by the fact that my pain, and with it the inflammation and then the swelling, decreased, and my mobility increased.
So, in my search for practical exercises, I observed the temporal correlation between every correctly created exercise and a regression of my disease, up until the point when my RA healed.
In “My time with rheumatoid arthritis and my healing with the HeilÜben exercises” (read more), I have put together detailed descriptions of my experiences, so let me give you a brief overview here:
1994: diagnosis of incipient aggressive rheumatoid arthritis with a severe disease progression at the age of 24
06/1996: discontinuation of medical treatment (Not recommended for imitation! The consequences were unforeseeable for me at the time.)
06/1996 to 12/1996: pain, inflammation, and the chronic condition gradually subsided and ultimately stopped
12/1996 to 3/2001: some isolated and decreasingly occurring early stimuli without inflammation
For over 24 years, I have been healed from rheumatoid arthritis without medication, surgery, or any change of diet. My name is Manja, and in my new book, I describe how my HeilÜben exercises work and have led me to the roots of my RA.
I am pleased to announce that my book will be published by the end of 2025. It is entitled:
Out of Rheumatoid Arthritis!
Good triggers – good reactions
Say “Hello” to your body.
In its very own language.
On the question of the contribution of proprioception to the emergence, maintenance, and healing of overload-induced rheumatoid arthritis
The HeilÜben exercises in basics, technique, and application
A holistic, interdisciplinary self-help model to support self-awareness in the overload-induced chronic inflammatory disease by improving biopsychosocial self-regulation. Presented by the example of a strategy of self-empowerment to reduce stress in dealing with pain, inflammation, and the chronic condition in rheumatoid arthritis, as a result of the impact of stress on posture, movement preparation, and execution.
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We do not make any diagnoses, carry out any therapies, or make any promises of healing. HeilÜben exercises are not a substitute for medical or therapeutic services.
With my upcoming book, I share the experiences of someone who has been affected by rheumatoid arthritis, aiming to help with questions about well-being.
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Manja & the HeilÜben team