Thanks to body’s boost, I restart daily practices!

February 28, 2024

 

So yesterday, flush with boost from day before, I decided to yoke mind and heart with body, and not only allow body to spontaneously flow through tai chi, but to actually go back to “doing my practices,” i.e. yoga/chi kung/tai chi, as far as I am able, to see how that goes. And that went well, very well; I was able to do everything yogic except the poses where I’m on my stomach, putting weight or pressure of any kind on the broken wrist left arm. Furthermore, it was an unusually warm February day, so I had the great pleasure of doing them in the backyard yurt.

Notice I closed up the yurt. A tornado watch with thunderstorms blew through here last night, and whew! Even its high winds did not disturb it.

I know, I know, the chicken barn behind looks like Moloch, breathing fire, about to devour the pristine yurt.

Notice the sticks poking up below the platform on the right and (harder to detect), lining both sides of path  path leading to yurt. Joseph planted a large number of perennial flower bulbs there last Sunday.

 

The body rebels. HALLELUJAH!

February 27, 2024

Pecking away . . .

Yesterday afternoon, at some point, in between removing the sling and putting it on again, I was walking across the living room when I noticed my body spontaneously beginning to do tai chi, moving and waving the wounded arm in concert with the other one. WHAT? Both shocked and eager, I allowed body, after only ten days, to subtly ignite the process of moving back into mind/body/soul/spirit harmony. YES!

 

 

BTW: I took one percocet when I left the hospital, two CBD gummies before sleep that first night, one of the prescribed hydrocodone-acetamin pills the next morning, and since then, nothing, nada! Would prefer to stay in touch with the pain, which is only present if I try do do something with that arm/hand that jars or otherwise stresses it. Pain is my teacher.

Meanwhile, I take a homeopathic for “bone trauma,” Symphytum offinale, every four hours.

Given my body’s welcome rebellion yesterday, I wonder if I can beat the odds, and be up to speed within four weeks total.