Scars, they fade but their energy remains.

I was 25 years old when I got a belly piercing. 30 when I removed it. I was in Acupuncture school...laying on a treatment table as a subject for a Master teacher discussing plantar fasciitis. I had been poorly training for a triathlon and suffered PF for 8 months. He touched the bottom of my foot and I saw stars. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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He asked me if he could assess the tension in my abdomen. I was perplexed. What did my abdomen have anything to do with my plantar fascia? Wonders of Acupuncture school...⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I exposed my abdomen. "Can we take out the ring?" The ring was the right of passage to my younger self. He said, "What if the placement of that scar has a connection to your foot pain?" I reluctantly gave in after looking around the room at my confused classmates. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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So, we took the ring out. I felt an odd release of tension in my abdomen...he told me to just breathe and allow myself to let go of the tightness. I had no idea how much tension I was holding. I was able to expand and release and breathe fully for the first time in what felt like years. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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He went back down to my foot and dug his fingers deep into my plantar fascia. The tears started to flow...not because it was painful...but because the pain was gone. Tears of disbelief. Tears of release. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The scar of the piercing was on one the of most sacred meridians of our bodies. It is known as the Conception vessel. This vessel is responsible for nourishing the Yin aspects of the body, fascia being one. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It was in this moment that I realized how interconnected every part of me was...every fiber of tissue, every line of pull, every scar...even the emotional scars were buried somewhere in my physical body. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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That ring never went back in. Pain never returned.