A non-Sprained Ankle in Sydney
While I was in Sydney taking a tour of all the usual sites on a tour bus, I was sitting next to a woman who was a Naturopath. I didn’t know what that was, and I didn’t what to seem stupid, so I kept to myself as best I could. But, later on in the tour, when we were on a lunch break, as I stepped off the bus, I sprained my ankle. She immediately, came to my aid and took me to sit down on a near-by city bench. She then applied pressure on my ankle with both her hands and closed her eyes and told me to focus and visualized a clear light surrounding my injured ankle and visualize a healing taking place. She assured me there’s no wrong way to visualize this and to start immediately.
I was really wanting to go to a hospital, is what I was thinking, but her kindness at wanting to help stopped me from saying anything, so I just decided to do as she instructed, right there on a city bench in Sydney, Australia. A stranger in a strange land, getting some kind of energy medicine applied to my sprained ankle by a complete stranger. I noticed right away, when she laid hands on my ankle that the pain was becoming less severe. She kept pressure on my ankle and her breathing was unusual. Like she was in a trance. I did as she requested, that I visualize a clear light surrounding my ankle and envisioning that my ankle was healed. I didn’t know what that looked like, so I imagined how my other ankle was not injured and so I imagined that my sprained ankle was the same as my non-sprained ankle. We did this for what seemed like an hour or more, but when she took her hands off my ankle and told me to open my eyes, only minutes had passed.
I looked down on my ankle and I could no longer feel the pain of the sprain. There was no bruising or swelling. She told me to move my ankle around to see if I feel full range of use. I could, I could move my ankle all around and then she told me to stand on it. I was reluctant, but, I mean, really, the pain went away, so why not see if I could stand on it. I could! I couldn’t put all my wait on it, but I could finish out the tour, pain-free and get back to one of the luxury hotels Sydney where I was staying. I thanked her for her kindness, and she said with a smile, now you know what a Naturopath is, so don’t hesitate to find one back in the States.