Did you ever read that children's book called The Missing Piece by Shell Silverstein? I always loved that book and if you are working on healing or personal growth, I recommend giving it another read. It's simple yet profound message really fits in the world of myofascial release healing. The character takes a journey throughout the book looking for its missing piece. Through its adventures it has some perspective shifts and I won't spoil it for you but let's just say it sees itself differently by the end of the book. 

When we're injured in some way, we often find ourselves trying to get back to what we felt like before we were hurt, searching for our missing piece. But like any attempt to move backward, it doesn't work and it doesn't feel right, and even if we could go back to how we used to be, we'd find that it wasn't really what we wanted. We won't be who or how we were before, once we've healed. We will have learned some deep truths and transformed through the process of experiencing life in our unique way and exploring our healing.

The Deeper Purpose of Healing

I truly believe that we get injured in order to grow, to learn a life lesson, a universal truth or gain a deeper understanding of ourselves, our purpose and our journey. When an injury presents itself, it's a message, some unfinished business asking to be dealt with or some unhealed part ready for healing or at least ready to take the next step. 

Perhaps this is also just a way of rationalizing and dealing with difficult life experiences, but the more we explore what our injuries or pains are really about and what lessons they have to teach us, the more our problems seem to disappear; our perspective shifts and we see ourselves and our lives more clearly. As this happens, we gain a better understanding of who we really are and how our instincts insist that we live our lives true to ourselves. Time and time again we are brought back to that deep truth, that there is no missing piece. It all happens just as it's meant to and the more we embrace that, the faster we learn and grow and the deeper we will heal.