Pain in the Body
I have wrestled with a couple pains in my body. I might take a yoga class that will give me relief, but a couple hours later, sometimes a day or two, I’d feel the pain again. I asked my doctor about it when I was being scanned for reoccurring cancer cells. Maybe it was a growth somewhere, something out of the ordinary, sprained or broken. I’ve heard of people having fractures that they did not even know were so. They just thought they sprained something. Sure it hurt, but they were still able to do most things, most of the time. Not so for me. My doctor told me, “That’s just a tight muscle, Courtney.” Nothing is wrong with the bone. I’ve had massages, definitely not as many massages as I would like. But even after those sometimes, I’d still feel this insistent pain. No matter how deep the massage therapist went, they could not touch the ache for long enough for it to find a new home. So I wrestled. Through my investigations on the mat, I have discovered that the more