How to Keep a Positive Attitude While Injury Healing?
- Edd Siu
October 26, 2020
- When you fall, it's part of the basic human condition to get back up again, learn, and progress.
Maintaining a positive attitude in the face of setbacks has kept thinkers and leaders busy for thousands of years.
An entire library of books or thousands of podcasts hours can provide tips. The sheer amount of advice is impossible to grasp.
So, what's the most elemental advice?
The key is in a shift in perspective.There are those who:
See a glass half full,
and those who see the glass half empty.
It's essential to recognize that setbacks are not inherently bad. They can be a good thing. They often lead to greater understanding and learning about ourselves and life. But it's essential to turn them—your injury situation, for example—into something you can reflect upon yourself.One of the few certainties in life.
One of Buddhism's main tenets (as a philosophy) is recognizing that pain and suffering as a certainty of life. Though this may sound sadistic and pessimistic, it's not.
It's important to understand that life always involves some level of pain and discomfort. It's a fundamental part of being human, as well as most other species on the planet.
We have to be able to accept that pain and discomfort are inevitable in life. How we overcome these situations allows us to improve ourselves, learn more about ourselves, and prepare us to handle further obstacles life throws at us.
I don't think there is any way around this, unless you want to become a cyborg or something like that.
Not every practice may work for everyone. We all have to try and figure out our own way of dealing with suffering and turning it into a positive perspective.Injury recovery as an opportunity for growth.
No matter the injury we have, broken ankle, torn Achilles, broken arm, etc.—a more philosophical way of looking at the injury is to see it as an opportunity for self-improvement.
Some people take the downtime to read that book that they've always wanted to read, learn more about a particular subject, learn how to program, paint, etc.
In this day an age, you can find courses on any topic for free or at an affordable cost online. Good places to check out are Brilliant, Masterclass, or Skillshare.Setbacks make you smarter and more agile
This is going to sound crazy at first glance, but hear me out:
The best way to remain positive after a setback is to realize that you're actually much better off now than before the setback. Think about it this way, if you never had any setbacks in life how could you possibly learn anything? You would become stagnant and lost at some point in your life.
As always...
Onwards and upwards!
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