fold in

Interesting our automatic response to pain is to fold in to our selves. Hit your thumb with a with a hammer, What do you automatically do? fold over try to push the pain back inside, like the old nasty golf Joke.... More interesting is that this also applies for emotional pain , once you are hurt , you fold into yourself and shut every thing else out and try to push the pain back in... even more interesting than that, is out lack of ability to unfold ourselves again. No matter how hard we try, it seems there is some undetermined amount of time that one is required for healing, and there doesn't seem to be an specific formula for any specific person as to how long it will take, or when one can accurately say "I'm healed". Of coarse "healing" and "healed" are just ideas, I use the words as descriptors. that'll have to be another post.