Are Injuries Good?

Are injuries “good”?

Maybe we instead can ask, “how can I make this injury good for me?”

1. A smaller injury can create the awareness and changes needed to avoid a larger injury that was lurking. Awareness to how you move and changing your biomechanics.

2. We can use the rehabilitation process to become even stronger than we were before the injury. Fixing weak links that caused the injury means improving overall performance.

3. We’re so afraid of the unknown, so attached to the familiar face of our practice that when it changes, however superficially (like when we cant do our favorite exercises), we feel a loss of identity. But in reality, a toy was taken away. This taking a toy away is the universe’s infinite kindness, reminding us patiently and with grace, that it will all be taken away, to stop identifying, to look deeper and find something deeper behind the attachments.

An injury isn’t a “pause” to practice - it’s a transitional state. It’s not just the body breaking down, but also habits, patterns, movement itself, different layers of the organism as a whole. The system as a whole loses homeostasis and begins searching for a new state. It’s a time of vulnerability, of instability, but also of great potential for growth as well.