Beliefs and Mobility

You can no longer move the way you would like to. Perhaps it is a gradual development — stiffness spreading over months, joints that protest in the morning, muscles that have grown heavier than they should be. Perhaps it is more sudden: a body that refuses to get up, that feels as though it has been poured in concrete, that tells you with every movement: No, no further.

Medicine searches for causes in joints, muscles, nerves, weight, age, inflammatory markers. And sometimes it finds them. But there is a level that rarely appears in standard diagnostics: the question of whether your body is not reflecting something that lies deeper than tendons and bones. Whether the immobility you are experiencing physically is an expression of an inner rigidity — a rigidity in beliefs that hold you fixed long before your body begins doing so.

Immobility is not only a physical state. It is a mirror.