Re-establishing a connection with nature facilitated a reconnection with the world and myself.

I lost touch with the people, places, and events that were important to me throughout the most painful years of my life, and I started to retreat and isolate myself. All I could think about was getting rid of the agony so I could move on and resume my normal life. Since sitting was my worst "activity" at the time, I stood everywhere. Most of the time, I spent hours every day in excruciating discomfort standing at the kitchen counter at home.

"The pain of a small and particular thing...can totalise itself," stated Drew Leder in The Experiential Paradoxes of agony. In the experienced world, the particular pain spreads like a poisonous fog.
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It was a trying and upsetting moment. The world had completely shifted from what I was used to. Naturally, I looked for answers. My life and my universe had been turned upside down by this pain, and I longed badly to make sense of it. I was offered numerous remedies and given numerous explanations. X (weakness, dysfunction, impingement, injury, instability, imbalances, misalignments, etc.) is the source of your discomfort, and Y (strength training, core stability training, muscle relaxants, injections, surgery, chiropractic, massage, posture training, fixing bad movement patterns, etc.) can resolve it.