I didn’t realize how injury and rehabilitation affected you.

I known and understand how I obsess and over analyze things, but I wasn’t prepared for the personal growth and mental will power I needed to get through this.

It’s amazing when you try and do something and you find it a struggle. Your head shoots you down and says “no don’t do this” “you can’t do this” “doing this hurts”

You have to re-train your brain to get over this.

Part of this struggle is pain, pain should not be ignored as it’s the body’s way of telling you something. Get it wrong and you end up like me injured!

Heed the warning and your the better for it.

Now I’ve been taught to visualize exercise which when I first was told it I thought was the biggest piece of crap out since Dr Phil.

Now I use visualization to work out if I’m actually in pain or if I just think I’m in pain.

There are times I can work myself up so much into a frenzy, my pain response it out of control and pain receptors fire so much I’m over-welcomed and I start to shut down.

For those not familiar with visualization you think in your head what you want to do. If you find it hurts then you need to work with your head to push through that. It’s doing this which can be really hard as your pain response from the body is avoidance. You really have to trick your brain in coming to the party especially if the pain is and has been chronic and on going.

I thought this was utter crap, but you know what it works for me and that’s all that really matters.