Energy Can Be Transformed...
'If you want to still be running at 85' - he said, and then looked at me intently - 'which I imagine you do...'
I was in the treatment room of Dr Alan Platt - Chiropractor... He gave me the same diagnosis as Greg, that essentially my knee is okay ('You have good wide pattellas'!) but that my body needs stretching, and that is has just gathered debris in its healing attempts.
I have to pummel and stretch and massage, and although it might take weeks and weeks (he says), my knee and my fingers will return to looking 'normal' again...!
As I was there, we decided that a 'top to toe' was in order, and so he went through every joint in my body crunching and cracking and pulling, mobilising and stretching me every which way...
'If you still want to be running at 85' he continued, 'you must stretch much more, morning and night...'
Three times during my treatment he said to me 'everything is reversible...'
I had read his story whilst I was in his waiting room.... He has come through accidents, injuries and lots of trauma to his body to discover optimum health....
After reading his journey I looked up and saw a sign on the counter that read 'Health is optimum physical, mental and social wellbeing not just the absence of disease and illness...'
I left inspired.
It is my own belief that we can effect miracles within our bodies, that everything is reversible, and I had this mirrored back to me... Even my funny curled hammer toes; he has encouraged me to work on straightening
'It is all possible' he said... And 'Especially work on the old injuries...'
With my new lifestyle my commitment to stretching and yoga is higher, but there is more to come....
I told Anadi about my treatment over lunch... 'Well why wouldn't things be reversible?' He said, 'its about transforming the energy that has created the blockage in the first place...'
The very times we need to get our bodies moving and mobilising is often the very time we stop, afraid, pain makes us stop.
When I first fell, Roddy on the beach pulled and cracked my agony little finger to the extent that I had to lie down or faint....
'He did you a favour' Alan said....
Pain is a communicator, but its presence isn't always about stopping.... in the same way when we feel pain in our emotional body, this is not the time to retreat or stop, this is often the very time we need to go into it, and investigate.
In the same way I need to massage my fingers and knee and move where the energy is stuck, so we must keep moving our emotional energy where it is stuck...
Energy cannot ever go away, but it can be transformed...