Muscle Amnesia
Muscle memory is doing the same thing over and over until
your muscles react automatically.
I experienced muscle amnesia as I picked up a basketball for
the first time in years. I stepped just inside the three point line and shot
with what I thought was perfect form.
Nothing but net. The ball didn’t go through the hoop, it
just grazed the outside of the net, near the bottom, as the shot fell short.
If there was muscle memory, and apparently muscle amnesia,
could there also be spiritual memory and spiritual amnesia I wondered? People
forgetting what they believed as they stopped practicing those beliefs?
I’d seen recovery memory give way to recovery amnesia.
People with years of sobriety relapsing because they’d stop practicing what got
them sober.
Sadly, I’d seen relationship amnesia too many times. Couples
drifting apart as they stopped doing whatever had brought them together.
I stepped closer to the hoop, and clanged a shot off the
rim.
Today I will beware of amnesia of any sort.
Fawlty Showers 2
is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you
might know is purely coincidental.
Other works by Ken Montrose are available at:
• www.greenbriartraining.com
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