Slow down to speed up

When looking to heal an injury of any kind, we must slow down & go back to basics in order to reclaim all the sensation & feeling in that area. We must mend the mind, body & emotional connection … we must learn to FEEL the connection, not just understand it.

Your injury can be an ankle sprain, physical abuse or emotional trauma of the past; slowing down to reclaim all the neural & emotional connections is the same, regardless of the type of injury.

When an athlete has incurred a devastating injury, part of the rehab is to exorcise all the emotions & feelings from that injury in order to regain confidence so s/he can once again perform.

Emotional trauma is the same. As Freud said, “unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive (in the body) & they will come forth later in uglier ways.”

Depending on the magnitude of that physical or emotional trauma, we might have to slow down to a snail's pace & work through the feelings that are stored in various areas, in order to progress.

Part of the reason why healing may have been restricted for you, is because of the lack of emotional connection & expression within these areas.

As someone who’s worked on my own healing in this way (slowing down to reclaim connection where things weren’t once available to me), I can tell you, its no easy task. Most people won’t want to deal with the various discomfort that it takes to achieve healing on this level, regardless of the liberation & possibilities that may come from it.

In a world that moves at lightening speed with nowhere really to get to, maybe slowing down could get you to where you’ve always wanted to go.