Don’t you wish that you knew the answer to that question? Or just a bit of the answer?
I know I do. I am healing. This I know for sure. What I don’t know is exactly how it is happening.
My medical team says I have Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSS) and…oddly enough, whiplash. Both are being treated but not by traditional, Western medicine. No prescriptions have been written for mood elevators or muscle relaxers. Instead, the prescription has been a combination of:
- Osteopathic manipulation
- Psycho-therapy
- Mind-Body healing
Woven into these three practices are homework assignments.
When Dr. Gajdos said go forth and journal, it didn’t sound like a big deal. But over the course of writing 3 pages, long hand, every day, discoveries occur, insights reveal themselves. Reasons for behaviors become clearer and paths to changing the behaviors stretch out before you.
Dr. Gajdos also asked me to read A Year To Live . It’s a small book written by a man whose life has been spent counseling dying people. Steve Levine’s advice is to work on dying, right now, seems depressing but working through anger, sorrow and pain, now, is freeing me up to live in the present moment.
Reading Being Peace came from Dr. Torregiani. Thich Nhat Hanh is an author whose writings are not easy but whose messages are clear and powerful. His teaching is that of most Buddhist monks – the here and now – the present moment are all we have. It is the way he shares his message that makes it easier to understand, easier to practice.
Reading myself came from Jodi Hutchinson. Jodi is a highly trained Physician’s Assistant, at least she was. She worked for one of the top Cardiologists in Delaware and was his “right hand man.” When the Cardiology team from Christiana Care traveled to China and other Asian countries, Jodi began a journey of her own. Her journey has led her to healing with her hands and her heart.
Learning to settle inside your own life, your own soul, your own skin, facing your fears, walking through your pain to the other side, to the light. That is what all these activities are designed to do. What’s beautiful about them is they don’t require new running shoes or spandex shorts. All they require is desire. And these activities are working for me, healing me, making it possible for the slow, sure stitching back together of my soul to happen. To my team I say, “Namaste.”
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