My Achilles Heal

​My foot started hurting one day and I went through the process of trying to figure out why.  Perhaps I had injured it while at the gym the previous day?  It’s possible but I didn’t remember it even being sore.  
 When I took the time to connect and breathe into my ankle, I was able to localize the pain to my heel.  I started to ask my heel what it wanted to tell me.  Was it in pain from overuse or something else?
 
What came back were the words, “achilles heel”.  Which lead me to ask, what is my achilles heel?  
 
Side note: An Achilles' heel is a weakness in spite of overall strength, which can lead to downfall. While the mythological origin refers to a physical vulnerability, idiomatic references to other attributes or qualities that can lead to downfall are common.
 
My Achilles Heel is my ability to procrastinate doing something that I don’t want to do i.e. my taxes and then needing to rush to get it done.
 
I examined my life and observed areas that I was procrastinating in the moment….my taxes, writing a letter for a patient, working on my next presentation, booking an oil change, getting my summer tires on, and the list went on from there….
 
I laughed at myself and thanked my heel for the message.  I gave my heel a couple days rest from the gym, took Arnica for the pain, started on all the projects I’d been procrastinating and the pain is gone.
 
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