I woke up with the back pain. I know the cause. When I purchased two pack of 24-water bottles from the grocery store, I injured my back. I needed to pick them up from the store floor and put them in the cart. At the self-checkout, I needed to put them on my lap to scan the bar code, then put them back to the cart. At the car, I needed to repeat the process by bending over to carry them and stretching my back to place them in the trunk.
I suffered from the back pain all day long. This back pain made me realize how difficult easy things can be with the pain. When we are in a normal healthy state, purchasing a water bottle pack is not a big deal. We bend over to pick it up from the store floor and place it in a shopping cart. We have to repeat this process at least three times at the store floor, at the cashier, and at the car. At night I had a tough time to get in and out the bath tub because I needed to raise my knee to cross the bathtub.
I apologized to my body for not taking good care of it. Maybe I pulled my back in one of the shopping processes of a water bottle pack. I sent my appreciation to my body for always supporting me in the daily life.
In Japan, we have a philosophy called Yakuotoshi. Whatever we go through some types of unlucky events such as getting sick or losing some items, we consider them positively, because the small unlucky events might have saved us from a big tragedy. It is considered as pay-off to balance out between good and bad. Another way of thinking is after we go through some unlucky events, we will be rewarded by receiving something nice to balance out.
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