About that having a body thing…
Yes, it appears that I still have one, much to my chagrin.
As I mentioned in my last post, I recently threw my back/hip out and the recovery was not as quick nor as linear as I had wanted it to be. My natural tendency is to move on quickly, once I have “gotten through” a challenging experience but this time I’m trying to do a better job of staying with the experience.
I was surprised to realize that (once again!) I was wrestling with how to trust the process (and myself) when the outcome is uncertain. And yet, I don’t think I was simply rehashing well-trodden territory, but rather found myself peeling back yet another layer and going deeper. At least that is the narrative I’m telling myself right now!
I’m hoping that something that I share here might be helpful with your own wrestling with uncertainty. Especially since we certainly seem to get tons of opportunities to work with it…
June 15, 2024
About that having a body thing…
I recently stumbled across this quote again by A. H. Almaas (I came across it while looking through my Commonplace book for a different quote):
We don’t trust that if we relax we will have the capacities, we will have the intelligence, we will have the strength and we will have the compassion that we need to deal with our lives. We don’t trust that reality as it is, is fundamentally fine and will work for us and support us without any interference on our part.
Basic trust is learning that life is manageable, is workable, that we can relax into it and just let it be. It is that trust that the universe itself supports us and that we have the inner resources to deal with whatever life presents us.
~ A. H. Almaas
What made this quote hit home is that I am currently in the process of working my way out of what ended up being a 5+ week struggle with back/hip issues that, for a time, made it difficult for me to be upright and had me wondering if I was ever going to feel “normal” again.
Enjoy!
