Metaphors have been provided an interpretative framework throughout this journey and am actually realizing that the all the PhD related experience itself can be considered a metaphor of a journey in life.
"Engage your core" is usually heard several times throughout a Pilates class, and that I was telling myself during my painful walk to the shuttle bus. As I have to modify my walking gait to compensate for avoidance of pain in the left lower limb, I am trying to compensate and find any walking posture which can relieve the pain. The core engagement helps at least to keep a mindful posture. And the metaphor of the "existential core" to actively engage provides motivation and inspiration.
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| My current working position, at the doctor's suggestion: the leg has to be kept elevated on the desk to help with the ankle swelling, with an ice gel pack wrapped around with a towel. It is no comfortable and I am not sure if it really helps, but provides a good hamstring stretch. I am also trying to engage the foot flexed upward from the ankle, and spreading the toes as in several yoga postures. |
