After a debilitating car accident and subsequent surgeries, doctors said my active lifestyle was over! That was my nightmare. I didn't know a life without physical activity; all I could ever remember doing was playing sports and being super active. That statement broke me, and surgery after surgery allowed this sedentary lifestyle to sink its way into my being.  

 

Here I learned some very valuable lessons about myself! The physical pain was severe, but the real hurdle was managing my thoughts. All of the energy that my body used to consume was now flooding my mind.  When my body stopped moving my mind became a tornado. It was as if my mind had grabbed hold of a hose of limitless energy and was endlessly [swirling] it around. It grabbed on to past memories to relive over and over again. It swirled into countless future lives to create worrisome experiences. This churning never stopped, never took a break, just simply redirected its target and plowed on.  

 

I was totally defeated and felt utterly broken... This was my gift!  This wasn’t an unfortunate experience, I wasn’t unlucky, I wasn’t a victim, I didn’t get dealt a bad hand, this did not happen to me, it happened for me.  

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I had lost my body, but I got to marvel at how it came roaring back.  

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I began getting new impulses and beliefs about what my body was truly capable of.  My body was healing scars, wounds, and incisions. My body was also repairing and growing new bone all after the age of thirty. In seven months, my right femur had grown two new inches of bone. All the new tissue my body was building, from skin cells to bones cells, was now stronger and more resilient than what had come before it. 

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Movement wasn’t a choice; it was an absolute necessity and programmed in, much like breathing.  

 

Losing my physical abilities allowed me no choice but to shift my focus to my mind and how it operates. I developed a new more complete understanding of my inner workings. There were lots of tears, both joyous and torturous but all transformative. I found a new level of respect and appreciation for my body’s natural ability to overcome injury and heal itself.  Once I witnessed the miraculous ways in which nature has built in super human abilities to heal itself, my entire perspective on life was changed. What some would instantly see as a traumatic accident was actually the highlight of my existence. The very thing that brought me the most presence.  I now know we can unlock our truest potential by releasing our trauma and using it to free us of all our perceived limitations.