TED Talk – More Injurious than 100 Broken Necks
His neck was broken.
His body and life would never be the same again.
Yet after going through operations, pain, lost dreams – he eventually found a different understanding, a new way of looking back.
His name is Joshua Prager. Recently I watched his powerful TED conference talk, In Search of the Man who Broke my Neck, where he shares how breaking his neck changed his life, and I wanted to share this with you as I found his words so revealing. Do listen closely at 15.15min, what he says is so unexpected.
For Joshua shares “… (though) problems of the heart hit with the force of a runaway truck, problems of the mind are greater still, more injurious than a hundred broken neck…” His thoughts are not what one might expect from a man whose neck was broken by a speeding truck.
His story reveals something that I have seen many of my clients discover, a path we that we often need to take to find within ourselves a different view of a very challenging situation. One that can allow us to truly heal.
For in all the years I have been helping people heal (for back, heart, mind, and other, problems) one of the biggest keys to healing I have found is the way we look at a challenge, and at our lives.
After an accident or illness our body will need treatments and operations, but deep healing takes more than this. It is affected by the stories we tell ourselves and others, our attitudes.
If we hold onto blame and anger then our bodies also hold onto pain. The tightness from these emotions and thoughts affects the cells in our bodies, making it very hard for them to allow flow so they can heal properly.
Working with clients I do focus on clearing pain first, boosting energy and helping their body to start healing faster, but we also explore how they feel about their health issue and their life, as sometimes old patterns of thought and views of life need a 180˚ turnaround for us to fully heal.
Radically changing our thoughts and interpretations of events can free us from the past locked in our cells, so we no longer keep repeating it, and can start to live a radically different life. A life of happiness. A life of flow.
So life is not always what we think it is – it can be so much more, so unexpected, so liberating …as Joshua shares here.
