Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. | |
— Milton Erickson, M.D. | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Just Asking… |
2018 | Or Attacks On A Free Press |
Day 26: Life | |
2017 | Still Looking For The Key |
2016 | Not So Much Anymore, Boss |
2015 | Green Binge |
2014 | Overdone |
2013 | The Courage To Remake The World |
2012 | Minor Gifts |
2011 | I Love It When A Plan Comes Together… |
2010 | Eloquence |
Cleaning the Chalk Board | |
Posts Tagged ‘Pain’
One Of Your Responsibilities
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Joy, Life, Milton Erickson, Pain, Philosophy, Quotes, Responsibility on August 22, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Day 22: Step And Hang
Posted in Diets, Family and Friends, Health, tagged 339lbs, 34/41, Bedrooms, Day 22: Juice Fasting, Diet, Exercise, Family, Family and Friends, Fasting, Gall Stones, Hanging, Health, Inversion Therapy, Juicing, Kidney Stones, Mini-Gym, Pain, Pinched Spinal Nerve, Step-Ups, Swimming, Weights on August 18, 2018| Leave a Comment »
The end of day twenty-two and the start of day twenty-three… | |
Morning weight: 339lbs. | |
I am now down “34/41”. As in, 34lbs down from my fasting start weight: 373lbs, and 41lbs down from my highest weight ever (two days before I started the fast): 380lbs. Today’s loss is a 2lb loss, down from 341lbs yesterday. | |
My son (James) moved out of the house about seven years ago. I “inherited” his bedroom. Over the course of time I’ve turned it into another library storage room for my book collection and I’ve (slowly, slowly) added bits and pieces of workout equipment to make it into a mini-gym. My wife has been in constant battle with me over this as she believes the room is her personal rent-a-space. I routinely go in and find she’s moved something into “storage”. I then have to find some way to organize the new items so I can still walk around and use the room as I want to. LOL. It’s a constant battle which I slowly win as she doesn’t care what I do with the things as long as she doesn’t have to see or dust them anymore. | |
Today I moved a bunch of my weights and barbells around in the room. I laid down some more rubber floor pads. (Almost the whole floor covered now.) And, I (re-)setup my inversion table. Because our housing association community pool was extremely busy today, I decided to pack in the swim and do some step-ups instead. I cleared a bit of floor space, and did my 30 minutes. (That was more than enough to raise a sweat and to remind me how old I am.) I started using step-ups to workout way back in the 1990’s while we were living in Liverpool. Step-ups are one of those routine exercises that benefit you by giving you a workout without taking you anywhere. So you have ready access to as much water as you want and to a toilet if needed. Just my cup of tea… | |
After the step-ups, I hopped up on “the rack” and gave it a flip for about five minutes. I got “into” inversion therapy (“hanging”) back in the early 1980’s. I had a partially slipped disc in my lower back when I was in high school and I spent a good deal of time in pain, which got substantially worse (severe, chronic and constant) when I left the Army and started getting out of shape. I heard about hanging on TV one evening and I felt desperate enough to try anything (but surgery). I went to a store which offered them. I tried one. Within five minutes my back “popped” and it felt like an exploding nova in the base of my spine. And then, nothing… Absolutely, no pain for the first time in close to four or five years. I got off the demo machine, handed the man my plastic and I’ve owned and used an inversion table ever since. Sometimes frequently. Most times only occasionally (once or twice a year). Either way, I’ve carried my tables to Europe and back again when we returned. And, yes, I am a avid proponent, advocate, champion (etc.) for inversion / hanging. | |
Epiphany: I just re-read the last paragraph and it just hit me how I’ve spent most of my late twenties and most of my fifties and early 60’s in pain. Chronic and sometimes debilitating pain. Between my pinched nerve in my lower back and my kidney and gall stones, I’ve been a mess! LOL. It’s amazing to me how adaptable the human mind is. When you are in pain, it is all-consuming. When you are not in pain, you can take time to smell the roses (forget about the thorns) and look forward to meeting the challenges of day to day living. We really are strange creatures. (Or at least I am.) | |
Apologies to anyone who came expecting to read about my fast. Sometimes my thoughts wander… To tell the truth, other than being a bit tired, it’s been an easy (boring) day – fast wise. And I think that’s a good thing! | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Adrift In The Oval Office |
Regrets – The Donald Failed The Test | |
2016 | Just Ask “The Donald” |
2015 | Did You Pass On It? |
2014 | Even When It Ain’t, It Is |
2013 | Still Happens |
2012 | Possessing Eternity |
2011 | I Thought We Were Talking About Afghanistan |
Drug Epidemic In America
Posted in Quotes, tagged J.K. Rowling, Pain, Quotes on September 19, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. | |
― J.K. Rowling | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | It Doesn’t Rain Forever |
Thoughtful Stroll | |
2020 | An Act Of Faith |
Born And Sold Fairy Tales | |
2019 | Fostering Debate |
2018 | The Births Of Spring |
2017 | Drug Epidemic In America |
2016 | Word Up, Chuck! |
2015 | Sometimes I Wonder About Things |
2014 | Still Racing |
2013 | Anew |
2012 | Make Both |
2011 | Are You Happy Yet? |
To My Brother
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Quotes, tagged Courage, Eleanor Roosevelt, Family and Friends, Love, Pain, Quotes on February 2, 2016| 2 Comments »
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
[You must continue to love, even when the loss seems unbearable. Not because it is easy, but because it is right and you are good; and because you still have much to offer others. — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | A Clear View Of #45 |
2021 | Not Here, Not Again |
Will The Senate Convict An Insurrectionist? | |
2020 | Senate Perfidy |
2019 | Contributing To Congress |
Yellow Signs Of Spring | |
2018 | But Take Heart |
Poetic Marker | |
2017 | The Few, The Many, The Most |
2016 | To My Brother |
2015 | For Junior |
A Roman Rome | |
2014 | Hmmm |
2013 | What’s A Motto With You? |
2012 | Worthy Companions |
2011 | Bourne Again |
Which Ten Are You In? | |
In Defense Of Pain
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, tagged Ghost Story, Harry Dresden, Jim Butcher, Pain, Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, The Dresden Files Series on October 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I’ve said before that only the dead feel no pain, but I’d never spoken from experience before. Pain used as a weapon is one thing. Personal pain, the kind that comes from just living our lives, is something else. | |
Pain isn’t a lot of fun, at least not for most folks, but it is utterly unique to life. Pain — physical, emotional, and otherwise — is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternative to the result you were hoping for, and the inevitable creator of strength. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. Pain is there to tell us when we’ve done something badly — it’s a teacher, a guide, one that is always there to both warn us of our limitations and challenge us to overcome them. | |
For something no one likes, pain does us a whole hell of a lot of good. | |
— Harry Dresden (a fictional character) | |
From: “Ghost Story” a novel written by: Jim Butcher | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Looking Up |
Shiny | |
2020 | #45: Or All-Consuming Greed |
You Could Have Told Me Yourself | |
2019 | Not Personal |
2018 | Preference For Irrationality |
2017 | All At Once |
2016 | One Of My Vices |
2015 | The War Lord |
2014 | Orange October (II) – Giants Win NLDS Game 2 In 18 Innings (2 to 1)!! |
Acknowledging Doubt | |
2013 | Fulfilled Acceptance |
2012 | Error Is Tolerated Here (So Far) |
2011 | In Defense Of Pain |
Creative Avoidance
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Appreciation, Fear, Introspection, John Backus, Life, Pain, Philosophy, Physics, Problems, Quotes, Relationships, Science, Scientists, The Mystery Of The Universe on January 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Most scientists are scientists because they are afraid of life. It’s wonderful to be creative in science because you can do it without clashing with people and suffering the pain of relationships, and making your way in the world. It’s a wonderful out — it’s sort of this aseptic world where you can use the very exciting faculties you have and not encounter any pain. The pain in solving a problem is small potatoes compared with the pain you encounter in living. | |
Introspection is not a scientific activity: it’s not repeatable, there are no good theories about how to do it, what you expect to find. It’s strange that by looking into yourself you really get an appreciation of the mystery of the universe. You don’t by trying to find the laws of physics. | |
— John Backus | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Yo-yo Management |
2021 | DIY: Outdoor Gym Modifications |
First Hammock Hang Of 2021 | |
Slow Moving Trains And Squirrels | |
Just Chillin’… Why? | |
2020 | Still Crazy After All These Years… |
2019 | 20 / 20 Foresight |
He Knew Damned Well… | |
2018 | Be Someone’s Kindling |
2017 | When The Moment Comes |
2016 | Changed Clothes Lately? |
2015 | Like Stone |
2014 | Resistance Is Futile |
2013 | Subtle Humor |
To Look Behind Green Eyes | |
2012 | The Path Is Endless |
2011 | Happy MLK, Jr Day!!! |
A Factor Of Ten | |
Better Late Than Never? | |
Whoops! | |
Acceptable Beginnings | |
Slow Progress | |
Useful Confrontation | |
When Phenomena Are Different | |
Creative Avoidance | |
Thinking | |
Fast And Flexible | |
Surrender Certainty | |
Techniques | |
Vive La Difference | |
Destiny | |
Completeness | |
Art | |