Recently I had kidney stone surgery and on the heels of recuperating from that discomfort I developed upper back pain so severe it is indescribable. I am not a whiner or, as those of you who read my Blogs or have worked with me know, I am no ‘Baby Snooks’. My motto is “Play the hand that life dealt you,’ and that is what I am doing. But my favorite aphorism that I learned in recovery from alcoholism is ‘go to any lengths to find a solution to what ails you,’ and that is what I am doing.
Last week I had three acupuncture sessions, one myofascia release treatment, and several Network Chiropractic remedies and yet I still had the trapezoid issue with my back. I kept plowing on. I went to my alternative doctor and saw his nurse practitioner and got a muscle relaxant as well as invested in a state of the art heating pad. My compound pharmacist is conjuring up a salve to rub onto the worst spots, which he says has worked for a lot of folks here in the “Egypt of America—Sedona, Arizona”.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I am doing everything I can—“going to any lengths”—to get back to a healthier state of physicality. Why am I sharing this with you? It is because everyone I know has had a summer from Hades—“If it’s not one thing it has been another” as my grandmother used to espouse—and most of us are doing what we can to change what these unwanted dilemmas are so we can be happier, more joyous and free of them at long last.
Having sickness in any area of our life is unpleasant. I am one who does not believe that “suddenly, he had a heart attack,” or “out of the clear blue sky she was struck down with cancer.” All of these mental machinations are nonsense and poppycock. Nothing is ever, “suddenly”. Whatever our condition is in, it has been gathering momentum and ultimate pain so we can make the needed correction, and return to robust health.
I am facing this temporary crisis like I did the financial meltdown—which most of all was not “suddenly everybody’s house was worth half its value as were most of our Retirement Funds”. That calamity was decades-in-the-works. Today I am taking the steps to heal what hurts and by following the healing hands that ring true for me—and most of all, to thank my Higher Power that I am not adding fuel to the fire of my calamity by drinking. This is my ‘one day at a time’ time to let my intuition lead me to solution resolution.
Albert Clayton Gaulden is the founding director of the Sedona Intensive and author of You’re Not Who You Think You Are: A Breakthrough Guide to Discovering the Authentic You. For more information about Albert and Sedona Intensive visit http://www.sedonaintensive.com/.
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