Healing: creating new pathways.

I get this question all the time from my patients..."When will I be able to do (fill in the blank) again?"⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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"Will I ever be able to run again? Ski again? Sleep through the night again? Walk normally again?"⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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My answer is always this...."when you no longer have FEAR around it." ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It goes like this...imagine your brain is your internal Waze or Google maps...it is always on the lookout for obstacles for you to navigate around. You have an "injury" (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual) and all of a sudden, your GPS mapping system goes awry. You have relied on that system for so long but now there are roadblocks and you aren't familiar with the territory. You can sit there and idle until you run out of gas. You can navigate the local terrain and let your instinct become co-pilot. You can pull over, ask for directions and find another route. You have choices. Free will.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It's all a choice. Believing that your control comes from within not from outside of you. The "injury" was just a roadblock. Pushing you to learn to navigate a new map...and the fear of moving in any direction is just an illusion. Everything can become the new norm. ⠀⠀⠀⠀