Special Massage

It's funny how certain people have special talents that somehow just seem to manifest themselves without effort.

Ever since I rode my Honda into a stationary object, 'nuff said about that, my left wrist has been knackered. This has been annoying me and restricting my left hand activities for some time now. No, not those sort of activities! For instance doing press-ups has been very difficult because as my wrist approaches an 80 degree bend is starts to hurt. Also any kind of twist will have me begging for mercy.

All the painful wrist bending scenarios get acting out every week in my Aikido class. I know that it hurts but I refuse to give in to my injury, and a small part of my brain thinks that such extreme movements inflicted by someone else may actually help, as I can't bring myself to articulate the joint fully due to the pain.

Luckily tonight, whilst training with a girl in the class whose job is a type of massage, I mentioned that she should be careful when she applied a technique on my left wrist.

"Oh!? What's wrong with it?" ,she inquired. I explained. She held it up, and pressed it in a funny way, which hurt, and said, "Seems OK."

My hand was still throbbing from the way she had pressed it, but on leaving the class it dawned on me that it was no longer hurting! How did she do that? she didn't appear to realise that she had done anything.

It has been hurting for about a year now, so imagine my surprise when it wasn't anymore.

I hope it isn't a temporary thing that will pop back out again tomorrow, but in the meantime, joy.

I wonder if it is an innate skill that she possesses that led her into massage or whether it was just an interest, and because of that she was able to keep up the learning and training until her skill just appears natural and she doesn't even have to be concious of it.

Perhaps all one has to do in life is find away to stay interested in the difficult things that seem important and that will enable you to get past the teething process and towards the mastery.

The difficult part I suppose is in finding some kind of thought or feeling that allows you to stay interested, even if you've done it a million times. I guess that type of thought association is how hypnosis may work. Perhaps I'll give it a try.