I recently injured my forearm and spent the first week trying to figure out where the injury point was. My forearm was sore, my upper arm was sore. The arm would get stuck at bend and i thought it was the joint. Maybe it was a ligament. I would wake up in the night in pain as i had unconsciously tried to straighten it.

I’m okay with pain but my biggest frustration was the limitation that it had put on my daily life. I could not work well in the gym, it affected my morning practice, I’d spend a good few seconds trying to wrangle it out so it can straighten up.

I could have gotten afraid for in my job, I have to use my body.

How did I cope? i chose to use this experience to grow in consciousness. I brought awareness, every time I felt myself get frustrated. I breathed through the wrangling and I found every time I relaxed into it, my arm would open up. i modified my practice on the poses i was unable to do, letting it inform me of what my students might be going through in similar situations.

I brought awareness to my being. To assess and use that innate intuition to determine if it was getting better or worse.

The sore ness stopped in some places and were replaced by a sharp pain near my elbow joint. I realised that it was stopping to radiate pain all through the arm and i could now pinpoint exactly where the injury was.