Psychology and sports. "Accidental injuries". I recently visited an osteopath, and we worked with my sports injury. They say about such injuries: “happened out of the blue.” We have elements in our training martial arts, wrestling, acrobatics. But I injured my leg in a light exercise, I simply stumbled - as a result, a partial rupture of the ligaments. I had a rather desperate childhood, with climbing trees, roofs and fences, but this never happened to me. I was very surprised. So, the osteopath said that such injuries often occur from a lack of presence in the body, a lack of focusing attention on the body, on what is happening to it - as a whole or in a specific area. Exactly! I immediately remembered how some small children always fall or crash into something, or stumble out of the blue. Such uncoordination also happens from insufficient contact with the body, poor awareness of where my physical boundaries are and what I feel. And this can be corrected quite simply - by directing attention to the body or to certain parts of it. For example, in my case, so that the injury stops bothering me you need to: 🔸 while at rest, focus attention on the injured foot and carefully monitor all sensations; 🔸 make very slow and smooth movements of the ankle (in this case, controlling smoothness and speed is the necessary focusing of attention). When I first tried it, the movement did not was smooth, was slow but intermittent (this is a sign of lack of attention and control in this area). After a couple of days, smoothness began to appear. By the way, such focusing on the body is very useful - every day, before going to bed: walk with the focus of attention throughout the body - slowly, from the tips of the toes to the ends of the hair on the head. Where our attention is, there is energy. The body responds very quickly to such conscious work and care. Such a simple exercise will significantly increase contact with yourself, with your feelings, presence in the body, a subtle understanding of your emotions, sensations, desires and needs, the ability to hear your body and respond to its signals. I wish you all health, a careful and attentive attitude towards yourself! If you want to understand the psychosomatics of trauma and find additional ways to recovery, please contact!