All the healing love. I resonated with much of what you wrote as I fell on my right arm on ice on Christmas day and so much I took for granted has been painful. Thank you for your words of beauty and wisdom.
Oh no, Tanya! I’m sorry to hear about your fall and hope each day brings a bit more wholeness with it. It’s amazing all the things we take for granted without even realizing we’re doing so, isn’t it?
Taking basic functions for granted is one of the quietest griefs of sudden injury, yet it forces an "enforced presence" that can be transformative. I believe that your resonance with Lisa’s "wind" suggests you are already building the psychological flexibility needed to heal; by acknowledging the beauty in the struggle, you are effectively signaling to your nervous system that you are safe enough to begin letting go of that protective guarding.
Oh my goodness. What a poem. It is so generous of you to take the immense pain you're feeling (and I'm so sorry you are) and give it back to us with such beauty.
Lisa’s visualization of "tunnels of connection" is a profound psychological pivot from isolation to empathy, which can actually modulate pain. I believe that by asking "What are you here to teach me?", she is engaging her prefrontal cortex to reframe a threat as a meaningful experience; this shift in "meaning" can dampen the emotional distress signals in the limbic system, even when the physical nerve irritation remains acute.
This is such an interesting way of framing my experience! I think you’re spot on. Mind and body are so intertwined that it’s a bit silly to talk about them as if they’re two separate things.
This is so lovely and I relate to the shoulder pain. I’ve been waiting for my right shoulder to get better for two months. I probably should have it checked out and take care of my own pains first—that whole idea of putting on your own oxygen mask first so then you can help someone else.
Thanks, LeeAnn! Please do get it checked out! I was also waiting on this, seeing if it would go away on its own . . . that obviously didn’t go the way I wanted it to!
So sorry to know that a period of illness has been followed by nearly all-consuming pain, friend. Sending you lots of wishes for your very wise body to mend quickly and gently. ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
Thank you for sharing so honeltly and bravely. Prayers for healing and a sense of balance and wholeness restored. You always manage to honestly describe the beautiful and the hard, and to do so in ways of wisodm, courage, comapssion and love. The friend and dad in me wants to be sure you heal and get better, and to know you have what you need. But I know you do, because you carry an intrinsic spirit, heart and wisdom that transcends the moment and the vagaries of life in this world. Thank you for sharing David Whyte, truly an favorite poet and writer of mine, and of your wonderful essay on the experience and of a mystical poet and writer seeing beyond the pain and anguish of the day. This line: "(For me, love is the truest thing—bedrock beneath all the sediment I accrue.)" Wow, how beautifully true this feels. You are a bodhisatva of the highest order, and wisdom keeper who connects us to those great carriers of heart and spirit through the ages. Please be well.
Healing energy winging your way, Lisa.
I understand.
I wish you ever expanding moments of calm and restful relief and a swift path to recovery.
Thank you so much, Kim dear! And I hope healing is winging your way, too. ❤️
It most certainly is. Amazing how much growth and change can happen every week.
All the healing love. I resonated with much of what you wrote as I fell on my right arm on ice on Christmas day and so much I took for granted has been painful. Thank you for your words of beauty and wisdom.
All the healing love.
Oh no, Tanya! I’m sorry to hear about your fall and hope each day brings a bit more wholeness with it. It’s amazing all the things we take for granted without even realizing we’re doing so, isn’t it?
Thank you and yes indeed 😍
Taking basic functions for granted is one of the quietest griefs of sudden injury, yet it forces an "enforced presence" that can be transformative. I believe that your resonance with Lisa’s "wind" suggests you are already building the psychological flexibility needed to heal; by acknowledging the beauty in the struggle, you are effectively signaling to your nervous system that you are safe enough to begin letting go of that protective guarding.
Oh my goodness. What a poem. It is so generous of you to take the immense pain you're feeling (and I'm so sorry you are) and give it back to us with such beauty.
Thank you so much! This happened to be a moment when I craved a kind word, and look at you with the perfect delivery! ❤️
Lisa’s visualization of "tunnels of connection" is a profound psychological pivot from isolation to empathy, which can actually modulate pain. I believe that by asking "What are you here to teach me?", she is engaging her prefrontal cortex to reframe a threat as a meaningful experience; this shift in "meaning" can dampen the emotional distress signals in the limbic system, even when the physical nerve irritation remains acute.
This is such an interesting way of framing my experience! I think you’re spot on. Mind and body are so intertwined that it’s a bit silly to talk about them as if they’re two separate things.
Lisa, I can so relate to you pain situation. The steroids should help and perhaps some PT. Sending healing energy your way...
Thank you so much, Pamela!
When it screams way past 10
You are allowed to
irreverently proclaim Buddah is full of shit
Please get your wing fixed soon, pain just gets in the way of everything
Haha well then I will definitely scream that a few times today! Thank you, Chuck!
This is so lovely and I relate to the shoulder pain. I’ve been waiting for my right shoulder to get better for two months. I probably should have it checked out and take care of my own pains first—that whole idea of putting on your own oxygen mask first so then you can help someone else.
Thanks, LeeAnn! Please do get it checked out! I was also waiting on this, seeing if it would go away on its own . . . that obviously didn’t go the way I wanted it to!
So sorry to hear about the shoulder! Here’s hoping you get some control of that pain and can get rid of it soon!
Thank you so much, Carole! 💙
So sorry to know that a period of illness has been followed by nearly all-consuming pain, friend. Sending you lots of wishes for your very wise body to mend quickly and gently. ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
Thank you so much, friend! I was just thinking of you today. 💕
Sending so much love, Lisa. 🧡
Thank you so much, A! 💕
LIsa,
Thank you for sharing so honeltly and bravely. Prayers for healing and a sense of balance and wholeness restored. You always manage to honestly describe the beautiful and the hard, and to do so in ways of wisodm, courage, comapssion and love. The friend and dad in me wants to be sure you heal and get better, and to know you have what you need. But I know you do, because you carry an intrinsic spirit, heart and wisdom that transcends the moment and the vagaries of life in this world. Thank you for sharing David Whyte, truly an favorite poet and writer of mine, and of your wonderful essay on the experience and of a mystical poet and writer seeing beyond the pain and anguish of the day. This line: "(For me, love is the truest thing—bedrock beneath all the sediment I accrue.)" Wow, how beautifully true this feels. You are a bodhisatva of the highest order, and wisdom keeper who connects us to those great carriers of heart and spirit through the ages. Please be well.
Thank you so much, Larry! Kind words like yours here feel extra important and helpful to me right now. 💚