Have you ever taken your body for granted? How easy it is to turn your head, reach for something, sit comfortably...until it's not. When you find yourself in an acute (temporary) or chronic (ongoing) situation where you can no longer move in the way you used to, it can be both frustrating and truly enlightening.
If you let yourself, you begin to gain a deep sense of appreciation of all the things you didn't notice before when everything worked seamlessly. The legs that move, the fingers that type, the sturdy back and fluid spine. You start to wonder...what else haven't I been noticing? Appreciating? That's one of the true gifts of pain, it opens your eyes to a new way of living and perceiving your experiences, right now. The opportunity is there, if you take it.
That's what all life is - experience after experience - full of gifts that you do and don't see. What good that surrounds you that you hadn't previously noticed?
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