This past weekend, I experienced the most trippy experience...and there were of course, no substances involved.
Have you ever had something like this happen to you?
My surreal experience was based on my focus being an example of "selective attention." What does this mean? It means that I basically made a big mistake because I saw what I experienced rather than what was right in front of my face, quite literally.
I talk more about my ridiculous experience on the podcast this week. You can listen here. And from it, you can maybe glean a thing or two so you don't have your own "duh" moments when it really matters...in matters of faith.
Hope this is encouraging that you are not alone when you have these moments happen to you.
It's been quite a painful week for my body!
First: After off and on foot pain after stepping wrong on my treadmill a while back, I went to the foot doctor because it started to hurt more again.
Second: Turns out, it had been healing but since it wasn't fully healed, it rebroke when I did too much walking recently.
Third: To follow doctor's orders, I was careful with my now known to be broken foot as I was gently walking with my dog while coming back from getting the mail from our mailbox yesterday. However, he suddenly a different direction than I was and tripped me. I slammed down to the ground (really hard!) on my knee, and bruised my other foot!
Fourth: This all jarred my already strained neck muscles from an injury last week.
Conclusion: If it weren't for the fact that I know this is not the norm in my life and that I have a great chiropractor, I may have just ordered a ton of bubble wrap off of Amazon and wrapped myself up in it to keep me safe and sound and resolved to never move or put myself out there to do anything physical again...because of the fear that this could be possible again.
That's what trauma is like. We have experiences that hurt, and we try to protect ourselves from ever putting ourselves at risk of that happening again.
Unfortunately, healing and really living and enjoying life can't take place if we let the pain and its effects affect us more than the healing experiences being able to shape our actions.
To heal my body, I need blood flow, rest, strengthening exercises, and therapeutic care for my bones and muscles.
To heal from mental and emotional traumas, we need safety, support, compassion, and new experiences.
So, hopefully, your body had an easier week than mine did, but if your mental and emotional wounds could use some care, you might want to listen to this week's podcast episode: Why can't I just get past this already? by clicking here.
It's not preventing ourselves from getting hurt in life that matters as much as knowing that we can get help and heal
when we've been wounded.
First: After off and on foot pain after stepping wrong on my treadmill a while back, I went to the foot doctor because it started to hurt more again.
Second: Turns out, it had been healing but since it wasn't fully healed, it rebroke when I did too much walking recently.
Third: To follow doctor's orders, I was careful with my now known to be broken foot as I was gently walking with my dog while coming back from getting the mail from our mailbox yesterday. However, he suddenly a different direction than I was and tripped me. I slammed down to the ground (really hard!) on my knee, and bruised my other foot!
Fourth: This all jarred my already strained neck muscles from an injury last week.
Conclusion: If it weren't for the fact that I know this is not the norm in my life and that I have a great chiropractor, I may have just ordered a ton of bubble wrap off of Amazon and wrapped myself up in it to keep me safe and sound and resolved to never move or put myself out there to do anything physical again...because of the fear that this could be possible again.
That's what trauma is like. We have experiences that hurt, and we try to protect ourselves from ever putting ourselves at risk of that happening again.
Unfortunately, healing and really living and enjoying life can't take place if we let the pain and its effects affect us more than the healing experiences being able to shape our actions.
To heal my body, I need blood flow, rest, strengthening exercises, and therapeutic care for my bones and muscles.
To heal from mental and emotional traumas, we need safety, support, compassion, and new experiences.
So, hopefully, your body had an easier week than mine did, but if your mental and emotional wounds could use some care, you might want to listen to this week's podcast episode: Why can't I just get past this already? by clicking here.
It's not preventing ourselves from getting hurt in life that matters as much as knowing that we can get help and heal
when we've been wounded.
