DMP #20 - Damo Mitchell - Healing ❤️‍🩹

A shorter talk by Damo on the idea of 'changing wounds to scars as wounds are debilitating and scars are character building'. This is just some general advice around how to sensibly approach managing ones own injuries and how to move beyond them so that the body may heal; an idea based in not over-identifying with the issue at hand.
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[@Taipeaky]

Great topic and talk, always insightful.

[@paolo5797]

I sometimes wish everybody would have to experience for a short time a chronic disease which lets you in symptoms 24/7 and brings so much pain and loneliness. It would be so much easier for people to understand. I really liked your talk. It's just difficult not to identify with an illness when your life is so constricted by it, that even the slightest activity is too much. Praying for everybody reading this and suffering with chronic illness or pain that he/she may find a way out of it as soon as possible❤

[@nizz0matic307]

i had to experience that several times and i really don't wish it on anybody

[@urka-off-world-adventures]

As the infamous space adventurer, Louis Wu, once said , “you’re gonna have to get over this at some point, so why not now?” That one phrase has been a guiding light throughout my life 🙏

[@rubenrossi4033]

😊

[@deborahdakota7489]

Yes tes yes. This is why I don't hang out with people who have the same diagnoses or past traumas as me. Support groups were good tools when I was wounded, but once the early healing work was done then talking lost its utility precisely because it created self identity. I also think carefully about who to tell about something because other people's gaze or definition of who I am carries reflective power. Once others attach a label, it's that much harder to keep myself free of that self identity.

[@mrfurfurk]

Great talk! In my opinion, some "tough" people get angry with "weaker" ones because they deem they had to put a lot of effort to overcome some issue (or at least to show no trace of it) while the other ones apparently did nothing about it. "Why is he allowing himself to show weakness while i'm probably having a hard time closing myself up to show nothing?". Something like that. Not being in either of the edges seems the sanest approach to me. Thanks for this talk!

[@justinstern6057]

When I saw this title I thought it was metaphorical

[@DianeFereig]

Love your perfect timing! I'd love if you can follow up with a discussion on how the body holds trauma in layers. I've been clearing a recent issue and was surprised this morning that an event from my early 20s was sandwiched in there. It was easy to release but reminded me you never know when a scar will reduce it's presence a bit more even in the midst of a seemingly greater wound.

[@redennachan]

Thank you Damo for this talk, I think every human whose had injuries or traumas (pretty much everyone) would benefit from hearing this. Discovered some blind spots I have about my old injuries and musculoskeletal tendencies while watching it, I could feel my body thanking me for letting go of some identifications I have with it. Pretty sure many therapists would love to share this to most patients who are struggling with this as well (once medically cured), although it becomes tricky how to do it in a way where they don't get offended or feel that their injury/illness is 'downplayed'. Thought it was conveyed really compassionately in this video though! :)

[@loristrachan8633]

Thanks Damo. A great talk. I think that incense smoke bothered me more than it did you! .. No longer will I mention my CFS to anyone again!!! It never dawned on me that sharing the woes of your illness journey can actually define your persona.

[@sinabehbahani7746]

Great talk, excellent timing. I was just telling unrelavant people about my shoulder injury.... thanks D!

[@loristrachan8633]

Spelling Nazi here ... Irrelevant!!

[@filip_cabra]

Beautiful. This talk pairs well with another one you made called something like Addicted to Healing.

[@Spudcore]

"A watched pot never boils" comes to mind.

[@nguyenvanuong3618]

Thank you Damo🙏! Really appreciate it.

[@jackmoore738]

Great talk! I broke my little toe 3 days ago. Small injury but very painful! I remember you talking before about not identifying with illnesses and injuries and this talk has just brought it back to my foresight! Thanks!

[@jackmoore738]

I’ve just realised I’ve done the exact opposite of what you suggested by bringing up my injury 😂

[@towardstar]

Thank you I needed this one. I had a dental abscess/infection cleaned recently and was paranoid they didnt give me enough antibiotics and have been getting woken up in the night by these terrible tooth related dreams.

[@user-uu1cd2tp1v]

Thanks

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

🙏

[@swissschoolofyoga]

The last week was the worst week of my life with death and losses… so the wounds are super sore and extremely painful still. What helps me now is meditation to separate my personality level and my heart/ spirit level of awareness. When I am in the heart there is only love. I was surprised to discover that. When I am on the personality level, I feel tremendous loss and cry. I never felt this so vividly. Maybe it will help someone to know that when you connect to the source within it’s pure love. No association with any illnesses or suffering or pain.

[@juang4618]

The last 18 months have been the most trying of my life. But they have facilitated the most change and growth as well. I recently listened to Michael Singer explain how the suffering comes from caring about the outcome of situations. Instead just handle the situations the best you can and try and enjoy the process. The mind wants to manipulate and control the world. The heart just wants to be here.

[@DianeFereig]

The fact that you've noticed the contrast so soon means you'll be OK . I lost my hubby and babies in the same week a decade ago and remember that space very well. If you let that peace and love fill you and permeate you it will carry into the everyday and all the physical challenges that come with loved ones leaving us will take on a new hue. The more you surrender into meeting the experience the more profound it becomes. Sending you ❤❤❤❤

[@gerhardgutenbrunner6820]

🙏🙏🙏

[@intuitivesean443]

I used too struggle with debilitating sinus infections. I lived on antibiotics. I had two sinus surgery’s and threw everything I could find at it then One day I woke up emotionally and let it go no more antibiotics and the sinus problem are not a emotional problem anymore the energy around it is gone and is freed up

[@jonrabat5561]

OG

[@mary-anncarleton7578]

I'm in a part of the world where it is WINDY as hell everyday. If one doesn't have a knowledge base of Chinese or Ayurvedic medicine, they don't get why I'm so aggravated when outdoors cuz my throat burns like f#k and the head plugs up, the channels are getting a full on onslaught of scattered energies, burning lungs. It totally sucks. Anyhow manana manana life goes on.

[@paulpowell774]

Me, Myself,and I, have missed your talkes like You had in; and from Portugal. Repairing onself is an ongoing illusion caused by imagination, one only has to dissolve that thought by creating a new one, hopefully a better one in the now! from the Land of Nod and woop woop. Being a Dream, Dreaming a Dream appreciating everything in the here and now. Definatelly like all the ambiguity in Thai Chi? feel the moment.🧞‍♂🐀