So, to update.
I injured my knee.
I think it turned out well. I had to slow down everything. I was in so much pain. Nothing completely broken, I think.
Though I am making dog's medicine journey, unorthodox.
I'm not going to the doctor. I will figure out myself. That's dog's medicine journey.
I prayed a lot. I don't take painkillers. I haven't in more than 14 years now. I just take vitamins and herbs.
So my approach was from day one of the injury:
+Fast
+Consume no flour. (Lot of gliphosate here)
(I've been on an ovo-vegan(?) diet for 10 years (no dairy, no meat, no fish)
+Move.
+Use cold plunge.
I'm only a week into this. Besides the benefits of the protocol itself I must say my knee is really good. I cannot return to competition level yet, but I can jog again and walk normally. I wake up everyday with less and less pain and discomfort. Fasting is the most powerful tool I think for such case.
I do one meal a day and no snacking. That leaves the 24hr fasting window.
I tried always to not limp around although it was difficult since my neural pathways for movement were all blocked and awkward. The trauma left a mark in my fascia (I think).
So the work was to think every movement and feel the capability of the knee. Not block, not fear pain, accept, feel, become sensitive to it.
Pain brings information, so I invite it in. Painkillers I think make things more difficult. They leave you without sensitivity and crucial information.
Also pain is energy. And flow of attention which is more energy.
So pain must be attended with your inner gaze and you should move around it as you can. Dance around it as you are able to.
Approach to painful areas in softness and tender movement, get close to where it aches more. See if you can stretch that limit. See if you can get to your own personal threshold. That way you get energy, attention, blood flow, neural connection to your injury. So you inform of it, I mean, you know what's going on and also you inform the injury by telling it you want to heal.
It is spiritual, alchemical and physiological. Invite pain. Don't hide from it.
Imagine numbing down this magical and beautiful interaction between damage and reparations.
Not aiding it but blurring it and throwing symptom killers, signal blinding medication.
I think dog's path to medicine (I just created that school, yes) is against delivering your sacred interaction and exploration of your own body to "doctos" (paper diploma title hanging in a decorated frame in the wall of a fancy office, educated, parroted and tamed by the big pharma industry). (I know doctors do good aswell, shut up)
It's just becoming responsible for your actions and inactions in your own care. Whatever the price you must pay it is.
My knee is going to be well...
I will adapt.
I'm inspired by a dog I had, he broke his leg in pieces and repaired it in record time, I am a witness (I will tell the story someday)
If I cannot play football again, then I shouldn't, I am willing to pay the price because I neglected it the first time.
Call me crazy.
(I will always play though)
That's my rant of the day.
Don't be a stupid martian zombi. Crack that egg of fear and live fully
