Down the Rabbit Hole
East of the Ozarks
Rainy 44 Degrees
8:17 a.m.
Years ago, after a particularly intense few weeks of sitting in front of a computer for many hours a day, I developed some terrible pain in my wrists.
As a musician, I was no stranger to carpal tunnel issues. I’d dealt with it once or twice in college when I’d get lazy about how I was practicing.
There are a LOT of rabbit holes one can pursue to sort out issues like this. A lot of them involve medical interventions to “fix” (cough) the problem.
Back then, I already didn’t trust the religion of modern medicine, (my opinion of that world now is not something I can share through this “family friendly” publication) so that’s not the first place I looked for a solution.
I was lucky to come across a guy who offered a simple fix for the problem he had learned from a martial arts teacher in China.
From his perspective, the issue was simply of a lack of strength in the muscles and tendons of the wrists and forearms. Develop the strength and the problem goes away.
He gave a simple set of exercises that I did for a few weeks. This worked. Pain gone.
Now most of my life experience seems to be about sorting through things that DON’T work. So when I find something that actually DOES work, it’s a pretty good day.
I wrote about my experience and sent it to a famous blogger who had been complaining about his own wrist pain caused by carpal tunnel issues.
I thought he’d be excited to hear about a solution.
Getting his response provided a valuable lesson about humans and how bizarre we can be.
He told me he chose to wear a brace on his wrist and that he was going to stick with that. He even sent me the link to buy one!
Solve the problem vs. pacify the pain… Hmmmmm….
At first, I though this was a very weird choice. But eventually I realized that we humans do this type of thing all of the time!
We are self-fulfilling prophecies. We create a reality based on the vibration of our beliefs.
And giving up or changing those things seems to be one of the last things most humans want to do.
In a way, we become addicted to the very suffering we say we don’t “like.”
I’m not sure there’s much value in trying to sort this out if you’re doing it to yourself.
I think it’s more effective to simply change your way of creating and then let the old fall away.
How do you do that?
It’s not hard.
Michael Brown, author of the Presence Process, calls this “Navigating our Experiences” as you can read about here.
It’s very simple. And anyone can do it.
From his description of the process, I’d just call this MAGIC. That’s exactly what he’s describing. It’s a power we can all wield to create the world we want to see.