Bruises always feel worse before they feel better.... why is that..... sprains do as well...... and believe me I have had my share of sprained ankles.... oh yes remember me... stiletto queen!! Oh yes... memories... falling off a platformed dance floor in 6 inch stilettos, falling face first into a ditch of snow and muck, butt in the air..in stilettos, I have done my share.... the same ankle.... broken twice and sprained twice..... the thing is the sprains hurt worse!!!
As my leg and butt heal now, the bruise on my leg is feeling worse.... however eventually it goes away.... and so does a bruise on our ego.... this morning I put on a muscle cream that goes hot then cold to help the bruise on my leg... funny thing... maybe I did fracture my tailbone because the bruise is worse... hmmm... just a little self diagnosis here... which is not unusual for me at all....
This morning as I stood naked in my bathroom mirror staring at my bruise.....reveling in the thought of how a body can take so much trauma and heal.... checking out my bruise, my butt, my foot, my boob with a 3 inch battle wound, my 8 inch hysterectomy scar, the 4 small knife wounds from the gall bladder removal, what used to be a belly button before 11 surgeries happened there way back when, the 1 inch scar below the left boob from a lump removed at 18, a bee sting when I was 11 that my daddy fixed me up from... and the other scars under neath from having kids....oh and don't forget my tattoo too........ all healing nicely....... what a wonderful machine we have the use of.... the cut on the bottom of my foot is healing nicely... painful but healing.... the skin magically grows back together.... this living breathing gigantic organ mends back together..... closes up to protect us from outside..... but.... I do believe it's our job to ensure it's healthy, has all the right nutrients, stays in good order, moist and has no spots open that germs and a superbugs can penetrate......
The same goes for our ego... how fragile it all is... the skin protects from physical germs getting in but what about the mental bugs we allow in every single day... we care for our skin suit and yet we neglect our mind....... we absorb from others, from the planet, from the media... those opinions.... we claim them as truths and our own and they affect us.. not so much the skin but on the inside... the very thing the skin suit is trying to protect.... do not mistake for one minute that the affect on the body is less severe if it is a physical germ getting in.....
In fact, I believe it is worse.... what our mind does to our body once we accept stress.... opinions from others..... and sheer junk of how we should, how we could and what we should be, do and look like... we start to break down our immune system and our skin suit is no longer a lean mean human shield.......
I realized this morning that without the heart and mind in unison..... my big skin suit is not going to be able to do the job of protecting my delicate insides.... as my bruise, my butt and foot heal it's my job to work on the inside stuff and keep my skin shield in tip top working order..... I need it for many years to come....
All of this has a point... on Sunday I received a call that someone I know had died..... 52 years old... healthy as far as I know.... family member found him in his chair in the morning... apparently (because I don't have all the details....) he died through the night from a heart attack.... 52!!!! 52!!!!
This is crazy............. a friends brother is in bad shape and may not last long and is 54.....54!!!! Its complicated.... but it's all stuff on the inside.... could we say that if they did this and that, lived this way and that way, didn't do this, ate this instead of that, didn't allow anything to pass their lips that wasn't organic or natural, lived a religious life, worked hard and played harder...... they wouldn't die so young............ hmmmm I am thinking that is part of it... oh yes I am... but I am also thinking that the mind and heart connection had much to do with it..... this body in it's entirety.... as a whole being is incredible..... and if one part hurts the rest of the body is aware.... my broken bum hurts and let me tell you this... my entire being is not liking it... I walk slower, I gingerly and carefully sit down, I have even mastered the roll over technique in bed.... all to compensate for my sore butt.... My mind is focused on saving my butt from pain....
Now, the reality hits.... the heart and mind connection can maintain and increase health.... its up to the healthy heart and mind to choose carefully when it comes to what goes into the skin suit.... mind food, heart food and physical food.....
Thinking about this today.... I know that I won't be mowing through a bag of cheesies anymore.... have you read the label on those... I will plan an hour a day for physical health, an hour a day for heart health and an hour a day to mind health.... and all together now.... an hour a day to my skin suit..... that's fair....
If you knew that you only had so much time left..... what would you do.... would you travel... would you eat whatever you want..... would you love more.... tell those around you how much they mean to you more.... would you kiss your honey harder and more passionately.... would you treat them better...... would you drink in the cool air feeling it inside your lungs.... would you cuddle your kids more.... would you go to bed after having words with someone without an I love you.... the power that we have to work the heart and mind connection is entirely up to us.... inside our very own skin suit shield.... incredible.... simply incredible......
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