Remote Mountains and Medieval Towns

I’m off on a trip the Adriatic shortly – quite a strenuous trip it turns out, hiking in remote mountains and dealing with the cobblestones of medieval towns.  I’ve had a problem with my back for the past few months and have been doing pretty well in treating and doing exercises, pushed along, it has to be said, by the incentive of wanting to be well for the journey looming close.

However the other day it suddenly felt as if I was almost back to square one with the pain.  As I went into anxiety about being in pain while I was away I realised that the problem was not the pain but that I was very attached to not feeling pain on my trip.  I didn’t want to be in pain on my trip.  In fact I was definitely averse to being in pain on my trip!  I wanted to enjoy it and have fun.

But I don’t actually know if I’m going to be in pain – maybe I will, maybe I won’t – but I can’t actually deal with being in pain on the plane, for example, because I’m not on the plane right now.  All I know is what is happening in my body at this moment – and at this particular moment as I’m writing this blog there is just a faint ache.  So I catch myself doing what I find so many of my clients doing – projecting the mind into a future scenario that I don’t want to exist and which in actual fact doesn’t exist, and then worrying about it!  The problems we create for ourselves!

And if it does come to pass objecting to it is futile and would only increase my angst.

Fortunately I’ve got EFT to support me so I’ve been tapping on the anxiety and tapping on being attached to a particular outcome, as well as sending love to my back.   Probably why my back is so much better today!

What attachment to something being a particular way are you going to let go of today?