Yesterday I had a small accident and realized that I need to fix my relationship with my intuition.
This week was not easy. After spending a few days with the flu, yesterday I felt a little better but I suffered a terrible fall.
I have the habit of listening to music swinging me in a hammock sometimes. I've been doing this since I was a kid to clear my mind, and the good thing about doing this in my garage is that I can see the sky. So, religiously, once or twice a week I rock in the hammock listening to music for a few minutes… But yesterday I fell very hard.
The hammock was at a high, in my fall I hit hard with my lower back and screamed like a dying animal, so said my husband. And I believed it because my neighbors came running to ask me what had happened.
It took me about 5 minutes to get up, I cried in pain.
But the thing that caught my attention the most about this event was that minutes before I fell I looked at the thing where the hammock hung. I stared for a few seconds, and moments later, I was on the ground and screaming in pain.
From the moment I looked until the crash, it lasted less than 4 minutes, I know that because I was listening to The Sky is a Neighborhood by Foo Fighters at the moment, and the song was still coming to an end when I fall.
After my husband helped me up and I took a shower, I took some pain medicine and went to bed and the first thing that popped into my head was how I completely ignored my intuition.
I knew I was going to fall, I know when I faced the thing that holds the hammock, I felt like I was going to fall, but I just continued what I was doing.
How long has relationship with my intuition been like this? I felt a little sad.
But with a certainty in my heart: I need to fix this. I need to stay fine with my intuition.
Some photos of the wall and the thing that held the hammock :
I graduated from the school of hard knocks.
The worst fall was from a rotten tree branch. My back still hurts.
Do you ever question a chair before sitting down?
It is perfectly reasonable to trust inatimate objects to support us without really testing them. Yet we have so much difficulty trusting people who live and breathe and think. This article with a couple pictures demonstrates to me how the human mind works better than many theories. It's the school of hard knocks.
Stay safe @aiuna.^^
That defines everything.
I'm just glad to be learning.
Intuition exists. That gut feeling you have that tells you to do this or that. It should be listened to. Funnily enough, I've just written a post about something that happened in our life a couple of weeks ago that I feel could have been avoided if I had followed my gut instinct at the time. It's not always right but it has a way of alerting us to discomfort. I hope you feel better soon and that your pain subsides.
The pain actually eased a little, but I believe I will still feel it for a few weeks.
I value intuition a lot, but I think I put it aside without even realizing it.
Sorry about your fall. Hope you are feeling much better?
I guess we all need to trust ourselves a little more. We often drift away from our inner voice to play attention to other external stimuli and we buy a hefty place sometimes.
I feel better, thank you! I'm still in pain, but I believe it will be a process of at least a week until it completely passes.