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“Ouch, that hurts,” I told the
physical therapist working on my knee.
He was trying to figure out what was
stable and what needed to be stretched
after a recent surgery.
“We’re going to get you walking,”
he said. “That pain? It’s from muscles
you haven’t used since you’ve been
hurt. Now, get up and walk.”
I looked at him with fear in my
eyes. I hadn’t put full weight on my leg
for two and a half months. I started
walking, but with a limp.
“Get rid of the limp. You don’t need
to do that anymore. You’re afraid to walk
because of the pain you had in the past.
There is no pain anymore other than
from the muscles you haven’t used. You
can do this. Walk.”
With courage and fear, I took steps,
one after another.
Do you have moments where the
pain of the past grips you? Where you
change your emotional or behavioral
posture because something hurts and
the only way you know to go on is
to limp along? The limp becomes the
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new normal, overcompensating for the
pain that’s afflicting you. A pain that
won’t go away unless you’re intentional about fixing it so it can heal.
Are you walking in pain that
has become normal for you? Have
you become dull to the pain, allowing spiritual or emotional muscles to
weaken because you haven’t been using
them? When you attempt to use them
in the right way, do you shrink back
because the weakened ones cause new
pain? Are you afraid to go through the
pain to be healed and healthy?
Through physical therapy, my
knees have been pushed, pulled, challenged, and stretched. After each session, it’s stronger. In order to heal, I
have to persevere and work through
the pain.
Healing from emotional pain is
similar. It’s like surgery. In order to
heal, you have to open up and repair
what’s damaged in the mind, soul, and
spirit. Learning to walk an emotionally
healthy road requires using emotional
and behavioral muscles that have been
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weakened. It’s painful. You’re pushed,
pulled, challenged and stretched. But
after persevering, you’re stronger.
If I wouldn’t have sought treatment for my knee, I would’ve walked
in pain with a limp. Emotional pain can
be carried the same way. Pain and injury
becomes an accepted way of life. But
it’s not healthy. My fear of walking
“the right way” was real. The physical therapist saw right through it. He
knew my muscles were strong enough
to walk again. He wouldn’t accept my
fear of a past experience to be my present reality. When he said, “You can do
this,” it gave me confidence to walk the
right way.
As I get stronger and strengthen the weakened muscles, I’m reminded that healthy physical and emotional
lives require hard work. It requires addressing our past, our pain, and our fears.
It requires being stretched, pulled, pushed
and challenged.
But in the end, we walk with confidence, strength, and hope.
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