Your bones are waiting to meet someone

Your bones are waiting to meet someone

 

I came across this quote recently and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.

I keep coming back to it in the context of our bones.

So many of us received a DXA result and immediately wanted to reverse it—to get back to who we were before the diagnosis, before the number, before the fear set in. Back to the version of ourselves who didn’t have to think about any of this.

But what if that’s not what healing is asking of us?

What if the diagnosis wasn’t an ending but an introduction?

Because here’s what I know: when we start paying attention to our bones, we start paying attention to everything. We look at what we’re eating and how we’re absorbing it. We look at the stress we’ve been carrying and what it’s doing to our nervous system, our sleep, our mineral reserves. We look at the relationships that drain us, the beliefs we hold about aging, the stress we’ve been moving around instead of moving through.

Our bones are not separate from any of that. They are living tissue constantly remodeling, constantly responding to everything we bring to them.

So I want to ask you:

What do you have to heal?

A bone? Inflammation? Your gut? A relationship? Something stressful you’ve been carrying longer than you should? An old story about what your body is capable of?

Whatever it is—your bones are waiting to meet the person who heals it.

That person is not who you were before the diagnosis. That person is someone new. Someone more informed, more attentive, more nourishing to themselves than ever before.

Yoga philosophy has a word: pariṇāma. It’s the understanding that change is not the exception, it is the nature of all things. Including your bones. Including you.


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