Healing Touch and Gardening

Yesterday I was scheduled to work at the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). I arrived at 9:00 a.m. for my time there. It was sunny and about 75 out. I dressed in long brown pants, a long sleeved shirt, pink work gloves and a straw hat. I had my water bottle too. I wanted to do some light work but as fate would have it I was assigned pulling "pig" weeds. I didn't know weeds had categories such as "pig." That thought I kept to myself. Anyways, I began pulling them out around the field tomato plants and in the beginning they weren't hard at all. Someone else had apparently weeded them before. But as I rounded the row I saw these monstrous pig weeds way down the line. "Oh no" I thought. I was already hot and sweaty and had just been working for about 15 minutes. "I can do this!" I thought. But pulling those weeds took all of my energy. I think it would have been great for 2 strong and well oiled muscle men....one to pull and the other to catch the first man as he fell backward yanking the weed out by it's roots! Sooooo I pulled down the line and got to this clump of weeds that had stems the size of corn stalks! So I yanked and I yanked and I yanked until half the stalk ripped off. "Well, I thought, at lease they won't be tall but they will come back stronger most likely. I figured that wasn't my problem. I was done with these babies.

I get home and I am already feeling the pain. My knee began to throb and my right hand hurt as well. I iced my knee and hand but also used a Healing Touch technique called, "ultrasound" in order to break up the congestion in my energy field that I knew had formed from the exertion and stress of weed pulling. I think it worked. This morning my neither leg or hand hurt. If I turn my hand in a certain position I get a twinge but nothing like yesterday. Those weeds didn't conquer me. I won the battle!