It was like expecting a sore to get well while it was constantly being rubbed and irritated.

A woman might have the healthiest blood in the world, but if she cut herself and then rubbed and irritated the cut, and put salt in it, it would be impossible for it to heal.
Now let me tell you how this little woman got well.

The first thing she did was to take some very simple relaxing exercises while she was lying in bed.

She raised her arms very slowly and as loosely as she could from the elbow and then her hands from the wrist, and stretched and relaxed her fingers steadily, then dropped her hand and forearm heavily, and felt it drop slowly at first, then quickly and quietly, with its own weight.

She tried to shut her eyes like a baby going to sleep, and followed that with long, gentle, quiet breaths.