The Body

I hurt myself.
Nothing too awful...just a trip and fall.....but It is enough to scare me though.
And this is not a cry for sympathy but an opportunity to illustrate something my teacher shared with me so long ago..

I landed on my right arm, jamming it as well as shocking and traumatizing my wrist & elbow. The acupuncturist was able to relieve a lot of the pain, but the limitations are pretty severe. The prescription for me is rest and no carrying anything. I have a lot of time to think.(The weird round spots are from "cupping" a method used by the Chinese practioner, to draw out blood "stagnation" in the hurt area.)

When I started to sculpt, using large air powered tools, my mentor would often tell me that when someone gets hurt, it is actually themselves punishing themselves. It wasn't an accident, it was to some degree self abuse, a primitive cry for attention; a very base and pitiable way of being a victim. It seemed at the time a bit melodramatic, but over the years I got to seeing how this can be so and for that matter it is a commentary on how precious our bodies are for those who work with them for a vocation.

I knew that the steps here can be a bit slippery, one must be cautious. Caution being the word to focus on. As we draw closer to being self reliant, caution is a good trait to develop. Caution keeps you alert, ready for new unexpected or perilous events or speed bumps. This very same alertness allows for receptivity and awareness for new and unexpected boons to be employed when they are identified. It will also make you slow down enough to protect your most precious physical asset’s, your hands, eyes and body. There must be great reverence for these temporal, tender animal-bodies which are mighty important to manifesting our creative divinity.