watching yourself heal

hi.

i want to share a couple of experiences i've recently had.

i used to ride a bike all the time when i went to school (im 26 now). when i was 10 i was biking on frosty, ice-covered ground and my back tyre slipped out from under me and my 2 front teeth came into contact with the concrete at rather a hard force. i now have a lovely coupla crowns instead (replace them every 8 years, or else!) in my last coupla years at high school i even had a scooter/nifty/moped. one rainy morning as i was motoring down the main road outside school (50km/hr), a car did a u-turn in front of me and i hit the front right part of the bonnet(/hood) and went right over (leaving the scooter behind) and landed on the other side (incidentally, the first thing i thought was, my walk-man's turned off). since then i've been a bit leery about bikes etc.

havent had a bike since i was 18 or so. recently got a moderately nice mountain bike for $50. the brakes are strong. i've been getting used to riding a bike again, and today as i was biking through one of the universities in wellington. i was zipping down a hill and zoomed over gravel. ahead to my right i saw a row of about 20 wine-barrels that had been cut in 2 and turned open-side up with 1-2m trees planted coming outta them. i gingerly applied the brakes and tried hard not to have my back tyre slip out from beneath me. choosing this course of action meant that i would crash into the barrels at a fair velocity (say about 30km/hr), which i did. i went over the handle bars and rolled (wearing a back-pack). i cant remember the exact details, but after rolling i was back on my feet and walking over to the bike, so i presumed i was not seriously hurt, which was very lucky considering the circumstances.

now, the whole point of telling you all this is, i gouged some skin off my left elbow and wrist, and got a deep bruise 3 inches below the head of my thigh bone. this bruise is very strong and has tightened my thigh up considerably, impaired upon moving my knee freely (it is very stiff now), and i have to limp slightly as a compensation (the more i move about the freer i can move my thigh and knee).

and i am pleased and happy, because it gives me the chance to watch my body heal itself (with a little help along the way of course - vitamins and herbs to take to move stagnant blood and nourish the muscles, topical creams to apply to ease the bruising, and acupuncture to rebalance the energy of the body (as there has been a local trauma the qi (/chi/energy) of the body is drawn to that place along with the blood from the bruising. by placing needles around the bruise and distal points on the feet and hands will disperse the local stagnation of qi and blood). also used to nourish the qi and blood of the body in general, to aid in the repair process.

i am happy because i get to watch my body heal. becoming healthy is fun! its a slow process and its a gradual one but i've found that im able to watch my health flow along from sometimes being ill to sometimes being healthy and being somewhere in between (a constant ebb and flow between 2 polarities). i think i got onto this by having pot plants, actually (no, not marijuana plants. i mean plants grown indoors). i really enjoy plants and i love caring for them and watching them grow. they grow slowly (as im sure you're all aware (some grow fast, yes)), so you have to be patient and notice them lots and stuff. its a great little meditation to play. anyway.

thanks.

(maybe i'll relate the other experience in some other thread some time.. that got a little longwinded)

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