Rehabilitation Experience And Life LessonsTalk about a rehabilitation experience. I have just been through some fairly rigorous 'rehab' myself. It is the first time I have been through something as demanding as this. Laugh you may. I will spare you the details but what I can tell you is that it has been some serious learning experience. I have spent the past twenty years or so taking folks through rehabilitation experiences of different kinds. There have been some awesome successes and some, well just maybe not quite as good. There is nothing like real life, true grit experience to nail home a few key points. My learning curve over the past few weeks has been steep. There have been some 'down' times when I couldn't see any further and just did not know if I would ever be any better. It took another great human being with experience to help me through. A few weeks down the road and I still have some symptoms but there has been tremendous progress. This is despite the fact that for the first month or so it was painfully, painfully slow. I can now very much see the light at the end of the tunnel as it were although I know there are a few more things to work through. At times I literally prayed for someone or something to take away the pain I was feeling. Yet sitting here now I know that this experience has enriched my life and that because of it I will be able to empathise and connect with others much more deeply. It is said that every cloud has a silver lining and using the experience for good is what life is about, is it not? Sometimes we keep needing to re-learn the same thing over and over again until we grasp the lesson within and are then able to move on. So whatever your challenge happens to be right now, physical or not, hate me for saying this but relish it, be grateful for it and ask not that it be taken away but for strength to see it through. You can do it.
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