Re-balancing, the ebb and flow what injury can teach us.

When we injure ourselves we can experience a loss of confidence; our self esteem can plummet as we experience a faltering of who we know ourselves to be.

Here there is in a shamanic sense, a death. As a familar version of ourselves dies, we may experience similar 'ego deaths' brought forth by change within our shifting bodies when we are navigating ongoing illness, or pregnancy, shifts in our weight, or even those adjustments that come with aging.

A quality of grief is present as we experience loss in our capacity, strength, agility or ability. We might feel as though we have lost ourselves.

No matter how we have related to our bodies previously there has most likely been a consistency, a type of reliability that when you you make a request of your body, you can expect it to meet that request.

I frequently hear from those who've injured their knees "I just want my old self back," or "I dont know why I'm so anxious now."

As we explore the functions of our knees through a poetic lens, we glean an understanding of our sense of balance and stability. Significant enough that as our natural movement and momentum is interrupted we must adjust. We must become more mindful of our steps during this loss of stability.

As we make the nessicary steps to rest and to strengthen our kneee we are often meet with slow progress and set backs... reclaiming our balance becomes ongoing and uncertain work.

We long for the old, we want the familar; what we now remember as easy and comfortable.

It seems when our physical stability is challenged within the body,  we notice the quiver of our internal voice and uncertainty and self doubt step forward challenging our progress.

I sense that an experience of a slow uncertain pace is our invitation to find a more enduring relationship towards ourselves.

And its serves to reveal what we most likely need...If we are to re-establish our balance, stability, movement and momentum.

ENCOURAGEMENT

Most of my clients that have had a knee injury have also experienced a billigerant relationship with cruelty or ongoing criticism.

In rebuilding your knee, we are also offered healing to reorganize your self talk and self encouragement.

To rebuild the one enduring positive voice that will continue to encourage you, to keep moving towards...

Wherever you will go... if only you were consistently... gently...encouraged.

It's work, finding and feeling balanced. You don't arrive and reside there, you return you get out of balance and you return. Rebuilding the ebb and flow back to yourself.

Encase your residing in doubt today know you'll  find your way back; your doing great; keep going... breathe; maybe your there already!

"Balance is not a passive resting place—it takes work, balancing the giving and the taking, the raking out and the putting in."

This highlights that maintaining equilibrium in nature and life requires constant effort and mindful exchange.

Robin Wall Kimmerer; author of Braiding sweetgrass.