Grain of sand...

A few days ago, I was walking and stopped to remove a grain of something from my shoe. It wasn’t big or particularly painful, it just niggled me.

It got me thinking about the process I’d gone through.

Walking > felt something in my shoe bothering me > do I stop to remove it or continue > stop/remove and then moved on in comfort.

Ultimately it took just a couple of minutes to ponder this, stop and carry it out and then move on.

This made me contemplate the ‘emotional’ grains (or rocks and boulders!) that we often carry around with us. They weigh us down and yet we carry on regardless.  Sometimes we will try and distract ourselves and other times we’ll pretend they are not there and yet it always is.

WHY do we do this?

We scream at the doctors and hospitals when they put physical injury / care above and in front of Mental Health support and yet we will often do this ourselves as well.

With my example, a niggle at the sole of my foot and I took off my shoe and got rid of it. Yet, something weighing on me emotionally I might carry it around for ages.

It’s made me stop and think that perhaps the next time I have some emotional distress I will think of that walk and carry out a similar process. I appreciate that managing it probably won’t be as quick or easy as removing my shoe, however perhaps by acknowledging whatever it is will in itself calm it slightly (as it has my attention) and I can then consider my options.

Happy walking and pondering….