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Originally Posted by miatri
hello and thanks for the welcome. broken wings, is it the idea of a gentle approach that is confusing? if so, its a distinction in language as much as in action, ie, i'm not 'fighting' to survive, not 'fighting' the rsd, my challenged arm is not my 'bad' arm and i'm not fighting to find answers. the action aspect has more to do with not resisting what is and learning to embrace whatever is occuring in regards to pain and deficits.
we humins are inclined to avoid what we dont like, we turn away, run if we can, and generally resist the unpleasant. with physical pain, once its managed to reprogram the brain theres just nowhere to hide. but we keep trying, pharmacuticals can be helpful for a time and to a degree, but pain does tend to track us down eventually. so a gentler approach is to turn and face it full on, to truly relax and sink into it rather than resisting.
when this amazingly resiliant body is 'struggling' to perform an action it could do yesterday but cannot do today i dont resist, once i actually realise (always the first step) there's a struggle i stop, relax, embrace what is and accept that in this moment i just cannot do whatever. when the ankle bones slipped outa place on friday and i needed to get home and my body system wanted to shut down and make me pass out i quite literally stood in the midst of the sensations, tasted the flavour of the messages swamping me and breathed myself thro it.
i have a few magical xperiences that i've written down about just what is possible when i embrace what is happening instead of resisting. even putting the bones back into place on the weekend was sorta in this realm, horrid horrid pain, but when i got quiet inside myself, focused on my breathing and sent my focus to the ankle i just 'knew' if i could relax and manually move the ankle the bones mite shift. no fighting, no resistance, relax, breathe and lean into the pain...
i'll post a really wonderful story later today about an incident with my injured dog last summer, a sheer sided, mud slick, 12ft ravine, unclimbable by man or beast, and i got him out, alone!
i hope i havent prattled on and missed the point of ur question.
blessings
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Oh, no. I appreciate your insight. You explained it very well.
I can identify with most of it and am still intriged how "gentler" and "embrace" is the happy median here... or I've been doing the same thing and just not aware of it as "a gentler approach."
I did learn how to breathe, at 40 - physical therapy/yoga. I breathe my way through a looooooooooooottttttt!!!!!!!! so if that's one of the facets of "gentler" then I'm as gentle as a limb with my pain adventures.
I'm always open to new concepts. Thanks for sharing. We all can learn and lean on each other.
