Living in Hope By Keeping My Mind on What Mattered by David Hennessey

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Living in Hope By Keeping My Mind on What Mattered by David Hennessey

My Dad died when I was on a plane to see him, then I experienced two car accidents that injured my back and then just after recovering I had a rock climbing accident that made me have to stop walking.

One evening I was lying on the couch nursing the pain in my back on the edge of giving up hope.

I thought of my family, my friends, my love for time in nature and there I was stuck to the couch wondering if I could walk again without excruciating pain.

I decided to use my imagination. I looked at the future at what it would be like if I did not recover from the back injury. I did not like what I saw.

I made a decision.

I was going to do what I could to keep my mind positive while I worked on the physical recovery.

I read my favorite humor to keep my mind positive and I watched videos of rock climbing since I really wanted to do more.

This focus on what I wanted to see and not what I was experiencing helped me on the path. I also went to a health practitioner who weekly stretched my spine to help reduce the pain. I believed over time the pain would go as the hernias decrease.

A key additional step is that each morning and each night I went through a process I now call ‘Framing the Day’.

I thought about what I am grateful for in my life: my children, the food I had to eat, the couch I lay on.

I did that first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

I also took the time in the morning and at night to visualize myself recovered. I focused on seeing myself able to move without pain.

I avoided foods that cause inflammation in the body and I make sure that when I moved I did not push through pain but carefully looked for the right movement of my body.

Over the weeks I started moving around the house and I started to become inspired that life was going to get better. I dreamt of being able to walk around the block in my neighborhood.

I started a job working from home standing up all day, it was all I could do, I could not sit without pain. I felt more positive and each night I sleep alone on the couch calming my mind with humor and visualizing my body rebuilding itself.

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Six months later I walked around the block successfully for the first time, very slowly but with very little pain.

Four years later, I ran and finished my first marathon in Greece, on the original route from Marathon to Athens. I finished pain free.

Six years later I won a rock climbing competition.

I never gave up hope.

Believe you can and you can.

Enjoy a wonderful day, David