This is a beautifully honest piece of writing. Thank you for sharing.
I am curious if you know why you felt the need to say you were fine when were not feeling so.
I have this belief that no emotion is better than any other. There is no such think as a bad emotion, unless there's is a problem that makes one emotion become out of balance.
If you are feeling upset or sad or whatever, I believe it is healthy to feel you emotions to heal them. If possible, do not judge your emotions, acknowledge them and feel them.
I understand the desire to heal quickly. It is difficult to have the patience to wait for healing. All you can do is do the things that are in your control and then you have to have the patience to see what happens. Does your knee heal fully? How long will it take? There is only one way to know, wait.
Be gentle on yourself. People often have an inner critic that is so harsh on themselves that if this critic were an actual other person it would be considered and abusive relationship.
Hi John, thank you for your thoughts. Yes, I so agree with giving things the time they need and deserve. I am very good at this, especially when it comes to health. I have much experience with self-healing and prefer this level of trust in myself over running to doctors. I haven’t been under medical care since my second daughter was born over 17 years ago. Dentist excluded for once a year cleanings. Besides for the trust, I believe that it is the best practice of patience, much more than that on my yoga mat (although this is very fundamental to my living practice). As far as the Fine, I was using it as a symbol of what most of us do too often for the reasons I said. To appear in a certain way. To cutoff conversation. To lie to ourselves for self-soothing - we want to believe we are fine. I believe my reason is this last one. Especially when I lose it. Sometimes I still put pressure on myself. It happens to many yogis or people with another spiritual or personal growth practice. We feel like we should always have it together bc we have been practicing for so long. Others say things to you like, why aren’t you calm. You do yoga. You read all of those books. Even though we know that perfection is not the goal and is impossible, we forget. We do not practice to become robots or superman. We practice to be fully human, fully experience life. Fully accept all of our emotions, moods, and parts of ourselves. Full feels better. It is healing. We can be grateful and peaceful and loving and we will still crash sometimes. We know that it is not about how we fall, but how lovingly we are able to respond to.our fall, wait patiently with ourselves during the crash, and then rise back up. With a devoted living practice, the time it takes becomes less and less, and when it takes more time, it is truly okay bc we are full humans, just as peaceful with staying down as the staying up. Thanks again, xo
Ps— I sent a couple emails- one with Q & A and one with photos. They aren’t showing up on my end as received so please let me know if you didn’t get them. Xox
This is a beautifully honest piece of writing. Thank you for sharing.
I am curious if you know why you felt the need to say you were fine when were not feeling so.
I have this belief that no emotion is better than any other. There is no such think as a bad emotion, unless there's is a problem that makes one emotion become out of balance.
If you are feeling upset or sad or whatever, I believe it is healthy to feel you emotions to heal them. If possible, do not judge your emotions, acknowledge them and feel them.
I understand the desire to heal quickly. It is difficult to have the patience to wait for healing. All you can do is do the things that are in your control and then you have to have the patience to see what happens. Does your knee heal fully? How long will it take? There is only one way to know, wait.
Be gentle on yourself. People often have an inner critic that is so harsh on themselves that if this critic were an actual other person it would be considered and abusive relationship.
Sending love and positive energy your way.
Hi John, thank you for your thoughts. Yes, I so agree with giving things the time they need and deserve. I am very good at this, especially when it comes to health. I have much experience with self-healing and prefer this level of trust in myself over running to doctors. I haven’t been under medical care since my second daughter was born over 17 years ago. Dentist excluded for once a year cleanings. Besides for the trust, I believe that it is the best practice of patience, much more than that on my yoga mat (although this is very fundamental to my living practice). As far as the Fine, I was using it as a symbol of what most of us do too often for the reasons I said. To appear in a certain way. To cutoff conversation. To lie to ourselves for self-soothing - we want to believe we are fine. I believe my reason is this last one. Especially when I lose it. Sometimes I still put pressure on myself. It happens to many yogis or people with another spiritual or personal growth practice. We feel like we should always have it together bc we have been practicing for so long. Others say things to you like, why aren’t you calm. You do yoga. You read all of those books. Even though we know that perfection is not the goal and is impossible, we forget. We do not practice to become robots or superman. We practice to be fully human, fully experience life. Fully accept all of our emotions, moods, and parts of ourselves. Full feels better. It is healing. We can be grateful and peaceful and loving and we will still crash sometimes. We know that it is not about how we fall, but how lovingly we are able to respond to.our fall, wait patiently with ourselves during the crash, and then rise back up. With a devoted living practice, the time it takes becomes less and less, and when it takes more time, it is truly okay bc we are full humans, just as peaceful with staying down as the staying up. Thanks again, xo
Beautiful prayer. 🙏 I just remembered what helped me when my knee went whack— red light therapy belt.
Praying for healing for you, your knee, for me, for the world!
Thank you. Will try the belt. of course, praying with you. xo
Thank you.
Ps— I sent a couple emails- one with Q & A and one with photos. They aren’t showing up on my end as received so please let me know if you didn’t get them. Xox
Will check later. Thanks 😘😘