All the best with your recovery. Audiobooks are a good way to pass the time. Puzzles, reading, playing Cornhole, thumb wrestling. All things I can think of that only require one hand.
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Exploring new music, one-handed origami, gesture drawing, tarot reading, solitaire.
Was just about to suggest audiobooks & podcasts. You might even enjoy practicing different types of meditation techniques. Most common one is mindfulness, but there are quite a few more.
Mindfulness and bodyscan meditations are analogous to release/defocusing your awareness to the periphery of your senses, an opposite of that would be various techniques to cultivate focus on a single object.
Expanding and contracting exercises are both essential (flexibility <-> strength etc)
Ah yeah meditation is the best suggestion 👌
Probably heal a lot faster too because it relaxes the body. My way is the method taught in the Gita. Close your eyes, observe your breath without controlling it, relax your attention between the eyebrows and work your way up to the top of your head. Fun exercise. Great benefits. Stay there as long as you like. Achieve enlightenment. Live a life of bliss.
meditation is what i was looking for, thank you. I practiced daily years ago. I think that’s exactly what i need right now.