A couple of weeks ago I
pulled a muscle in my back. I had had a long day of yoga; 4 classes including
karate and I was too tired to reach for the tissues. Being used to twist my
body into all sorts of unnatural forms I reached and twisted to get the tissue
behind and above me. I felt something start to pull so I decided in my
brilliance to stretch and twist just that little bit further to reach the
tissue. Have you ever had a moment when you realize you have done something
really bad to yourself? I could barely move the rest of the night, I was so sore
and worried, it wasn’t going to be easy to teach yoga with a pain like this. I
couldn’t sit, I couldn’t lie, I couldn’t turn over, my back screamed at me “how
could you do this to me?!!”
I had read someone’s comment
on a facebook post about having a cold, he suggested that if you have a cold,
to accept that you have a cold, instead of complaining and suffering and
wishing that you felt better, take the cold to be part of you, then you will be
in the moment, though you will still feel ill, you won’t be suffering because
you won’t be trying to be something that you aren’t at that time. I thought
that I would try out this theory with my back. I thought to myself, “I have
hurt my back, it feels very sore, but I accept that this pain is part of me at
the moment and I am going to look after this pain, and I’m going to care for it
and nurture it, this is just the way my back has to feel at the moment, I can’t
make it not feel sore, but I am going to look after it as best I can”. So I
did, my pain became the centre of my world, I gave it cold packs and heat
packs, I rubbed it with voltaren, arnica and deep heat, I did the yoga
exercises I knew would help it get better. I took anti-inflammatory tablets and
pain killers before I went to sleep. It hurt so much to lie in bed, but when
the pain tablets kicked in I fell asleep and didn’t move.
The next day it wasn’t much
better. I decided the best thing I could do for myself was cancel the morning’s
class, I could use the lunch time class to do exercises to help myself and I
would only have to get through kid’s karate in the afternoon. I lay perfectly
still in my bed, using my meditation to draw the golden healing light into my
back and imagined Raphael (the angel of healing) looking after me. I got up and
went for a little walk, still telling my sore back, that it was ok to feel like
this, I accept the pain as part of my body and that I would take care of it even
though it was being a pain in the back.
The next morning it felt like
a miracle had happened. I was completely healed, I wouldn’t even have known
there had been anything wrong with me at all the previous day. I was seriously
amazed and happy. I honestly thought it was going to take time to heal. But I
loved my body back to health.
Next time you feel sore and
in pain, instead of thinking to yourself “I hate my body, body you make me feel
so bad, you are sore and painful, I don’t want to feel like this, go away body,
you are my arch nemesis” Try saying nice things to yourself like, ”Dear body, I
know I have been hard on you making you do things that have caused you pain,
but never mind, I love you anyway, legs you do such a good job of walking me
around all day, arms, you carry such heavy loads, I really appreciate
everything that you do for me, it is no wonder you feel sore, I make you work
so hard. So now I am going to look after you and make you feel better”.
You could notice that your
arms don’t feel sore if your legs hurts, you could notice that your knee feels
good if your shoulder hurts, and if your whole body is aching, you could notice
how nice your hair looks today.
I hope this makes you feel
better
Namaste Sarah J
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