{"id":608,"date":"2010-12-27T21:35:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T02:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/?p=608"},"modified":"2011-01-07T12:18:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T17:18:14","slug":"why-was-this-my-karma-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Why was This my Karma? Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wellness + Spirituality=<\/span><\/span><\/span>“Medicine”=Nuwati<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” Maya Angelou<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

Why did I have this bad hip? \u00a0What did I do? \u00a0Why was this my karma? People often ask themselves these kinds of questions when they are hit by illness or some other kind of misfortune. \u00a0Humans are uniquely rational beings who know that through understanding, they may either find a solution to a problem or at least a form of solace, comfort or peace. We hope that the universe is a fair, \u00a0just universe and that there is a reason for everything. \u00a0But if we do not seek answers, very likely we won’t \u00a0find them….although that’s not always the case.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

When my arthritic hip was particularly painful, I found myself wracking my brain. \u00a0Why? Why? Why? \u00a0I wondered, firstly, \u00a0“why” my hip was deteriorating, because the doctors could never tell me. And I wondered the “why” of the big picture: \u00a0Why did my life bring me this dis-ease? \u00a0If we create our own reality, and I am responsible for my reality, why did I do this to myself? And how?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

I had a hip replacement in 1997, and I’m happy to report that has been an utter success. \u00a0Advocate of alternative treatments though I am, I am utterly grateful for the surgeon’s skills, modern technology and the success of the outcome. But of course, I’ve wondered “why” these “alternatives didn’t seem to work.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

I’ve had years of retrospection to examine everything that built up to the hip replacement. \u00a0As I said, I was an athlete and had taken pride in my physicality, particularly my strength, my muscles. \u00a0Now, “pride goeth before a fall,” it is said. And there’s a part of me that tells me that I was not gentle with myself, either psychologically–to my nervous system– or physically, to my body. During the earlier years on the homestead, I built a house, gardened, cut firewood, etc. and when my first son was born in 1986 –he was a big one– rather than slow down and mother him, I was at first determined to carry him on my back and finish the painting, the drywall—you name it, in our very unfinished house. I was impatient with it all. This little guy was a colicky cry baby. \u00a0He didn’t take long peaceful naps in the crib. \u00a0No sir. \u00a0He wanted to be with ME all the time, where the love was–or he’d cry. \u00a0Born Caesarian, I had to recover from that and so did he. And I wanted to be close to him too….so I carried him everywhere. On top of this, we lived in an isolated environment, out in the country on the side of a forested hill. \u00a0The road leading to the house was rough and up a steep hill. \u00a0Driving in winter was usually not done so when the children were young, we carried them.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

In the first six years of living in West Virginia, 1979 to 1985, \u00a0my husband and I had taken a six year hiatus from “regular” full time jobs and taken irregular part time work. We worked for the 1980 census and for a surveyor. We had even gone “on the road” for a year to work \u00a0for an oil and gas exploration \u00a0seismic crew. \u00a0We were part of the “juggie” crew, laying out miles and miles of geophones and wires and picking them up again, only to again lay them out. We walked half the width of Pennsylvania and all over south Texas. I remember my hip being very stiff when we woke in the morning in the bed in the back of our Ford Econoline van. But it would loosen up soon enough and it was full speed ahead! I was competitive and like to be among the fastest of the juggie crew.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

So physically, I demanded a good deal of my body. And if you expect a lot from your body, you have to know how to take care of your mind as well.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

The doctors suggested to me that perhaps I had injured my hip when I was young. I could not remember \u00a0a time when this might have happened. \u00a0A healer told me that the blood supply to the hip had been impeded, maybe by an injury. \u00a0When my big husband and little ole me were “courting” we used to like to wrestle about, playfully…but I would really push myself….and he was a wrestling coach…so maybe I had injured myself during this early frolicking. Whatever the initial cause of the weakness in that hip, it remains a mystery.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

But I can’t help but think that the “Why” of this dis-ease, this experience, was in order to learn. \u00a0I learned so much through it all. \u00a0I don’t have ALL the answers, maybe I never will. But I am so much wiser now, then e’r I was before.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

And as my mentor, Grandmother Pa’Ris’Ha would say: “Stop asking and questioning why things are as they are…you know!”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

End Part II<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Elizabeth Richie\/Du’Tsu<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n


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