Easier to Process?

I have always been a believer in the fact that experience is a teacher only if you learn. This is to say that life’s lessons do not automatically generate acquisition of knowledge and understanding; making it our responsibility to acknowledge and assimilate the offerings of our experiences.  Off late though, my mind has been stretched towards comprehending how similar issues do not always require the same solutions implemented to the tee. In circumstances where they do, knowing better does not necessarily equate to ease being characteristic of your efforts to do  better. 

Headaches tend to bring this concept  to life in quite an understandable manner as both tension and sinus headaches are characterised by feelings of pain and pressure. However, while experiences may seem alike, the former is a primary headache, while the latter is a secondary headache. Where tension headaches may indicate dysfunction or overactivity of pain sensitive features in one’s head, secondary headaches are indicative of an underlying medical condition. This means that while addressing  sleep irregularities may aid in relieving tension headaches, sinus headaches will only resolve once the underlying condition is treated. Ultimately, your focus in addressing each, needs to bear in mind the root and not just the visible fruit. 

There is a level of intimacy with self that births self-awareness that is required in discerning where correlation is not implying causation. When we have figured an element of our being that acts a thorn in our flesh, it can become easy to place the blame for everything else on it. As we develop greater consciousness on the physical, psychological and social impacts of trauma, they can be a bias towards attributing every aversion to an injurious ordeal. In as much as it is true that certain responses are distress reactions to negative experiences, it is also true that you might just not appreciate certain treatment because it does not water your soil in a manner you deem befitting. This is not a call for shallow attendance to trauma but rather encouragement for discernment so as to not brand every action as a product of what may feel like a reasonable explanation. People who struggle with recurring sinus infections or chronic sinusitis can still experience tension headaches that are not directly related to sinuses. 

True to the multi-layered nature of recovery, the weight of exercising the appropriate solution does not automatically become seamless. It still comes with its moments of discomfort that force you to graduate from just knowing better to actually doing better. A demand is placed on an asset you still feel quite insecure about because you just recently attained it. Application often feels like a call to make a withdrawal in  spaces where you are unsure about the deposits. It calls for one to show up daily with a heart willing to assert itself with a faith that knows fear but does not make fear its resting place. 

The term ‘easier’ in healing is less about us facing less resistance and more about the transformation in our heart posture, state of mind and alignment with our bodies to fight the good fight of recovery.