#83 – Cam Murray Injured Again: The Body Keeps the Score – Are You Listening?
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Episode Summary:
In this episode of Sport Is Life, Ian Hawkins explores the mind-body connection and how unresolved emotional stress can manifest as physical injuries. Using the recent season-ending injury of NRL star Cam Murray as a case study, Ian discusses how repeated injuries may be linked to subconscious emotional burdens. He dives into the meaning behind different injuries, referencing research from The Body Keeps the Score and traditional healing practices. Ian also shares personal experiences and examples of emotional trauma influencing physical well-being, emphasizing how addressing the root emotional cause can lead to healing.
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Transcript
Did you know that your body is constantly
Speaker:sending you messages about what needs
Speaker:attention? Your subconscious is always
Speaker:talking to you through your body. If
Speaker:you're having injuries that reoccur, then
Speaker:there's something that is trapped within
Speaker:your system, the emotional or mental
Speaker:trauma of something from the past. And so
Speaker:they explore that by looking at Cam
Speaker:Murray who's suffered a season ending
Speaker:injury just this week.
Speaker:I'm Ian Hawkins and this is Sporty's
Speaker:life. The purpose of sport, as I
Speaker:see it, is to see your vision become a
Speaker:reality, find your voice, create
Speaker:strong connections and learn to trust
Speaker:your body.
Speaker:So poor old Cam Murray is injured
Speaker:again. He's taking a battering. It seems
Speaker:the last few years a number of longer
Speaker:term injuries. I want to tell you
Speaker:what I've noticed and also dive deeper
Speaker:into the meaning of some of these
Speaker:injuries because our body is always
Speaker:talking to us. It's always telling us
Speaker:what needs attention, particularly if
Speaker:they're repeat injuries now
Speaker:last year when sales were
Speaker:struggling.
Speaker:His teammate Latrell Mitchell's out
Speaker:injured, getting himself into trouble.
Speaker:Ken Murray was the captain and he's
Speaker:having to face these press conferences
Speaker:again and again and again, answering
Speaker:these questions. What's going on, having
Speaker:to defend people having to be the
Speaker:spokesperson for the mess that they were
Speaker:in last start of last year?
Speaker:And you could see the pressure getting to
Speaker:him. And I
Speaker:remember thinking at the time like, he's
Speaker:going to reach breaking point. And sure
Speaker:enough, he got injured not long after
Speaker:that. So rather than have to face that
Speaker:anymore.
Speaker:Subconsciously you manifest an injury so
Speaker:you don't have to continue to be that
Speaker:spokesperson. Now, anyone that's had to
Speaker:do a role like that, not in the public
Speaker:eye, maybe in a work scenario or.
Speaker:Personal scenario where you're having to
Speaker:continue to stand up and defend different
Speaker:situations and it is exhausting. Now
Speaker:imagine doing that in the public eye.
Speaker:Imagine doing like a high profile team
Speaker:like South that have such high
Speaker:expectations and such a demanding fan
Speaker:base and also get tracked a lot of
Speaker:attention for a variety of reasons
Speaker:together. Movie star, one of the
Speaker:owners is movie star Russell Crowe. You
Speaker:know, there's so many different reasons
Speaker:why. They attract a lot of attention, but
Speaker:the pressure just too much and sometimes
Speaker:something literally breaks. Now
Speaker:with his hip at that point, hips all
Speaker:about moving forward, maybe that point he
Speaker:couldn't see the path forward like that,
Speaker:that experienced a lot of injuries,
Speaker:obviously wasn't a happy camp. There's
Speaker:all sorts of sniping coming from the
Speaker:outside and yeah, maybe there was a
Speaker:real reluctance to move forward. I know
Speaker:that's the tell for me. Whenever my hips
Speaker:started getting the start playing up a
Speaker:bit. I'm thinking, OK, well, what, what
Speaker:am I worried about? What am I concerned
Speaker:about? Or maybe even a little bit fearful
Speaker:about moving?Or maybe where am I feeling
Speaker:like I can't move forward or I'm feeling
Speaker:stuck? And that's, I imagine, where
Speaker:exactly Cam Murray would have been when
Speaker:that injury came.
Speaker:Thankfully last year he had a quick
Speaker:recovery back playing Origin and not too
Speaker:long in time. But now,
Speaker:before a ball's even been kicked in anger
Speaker:for the season properties, he's pretty
Speaker:much out for the season with the
Speaker:Tornadoes. Now,
Speaker:Achilles has a lot of different meanings.
Speaker:You think about the the mythical version,
Speaker:the Achilles heel. It's that point of
Speaker:weakness. And of course, when we talk
Speaker:about the body, there's that element
Speaker:comes into it as well. Sometimes it's
Speaker:similar to what I was talking about in
Speaker:yesterday's episode, that that one area
Speaker:that we actually have strength can
Speaker:sometimes be the place where it feels
Speaker:like a weakness. And quite possibly
Speaker:that's what was playing out for him. But
Speaker:what the Achilles also does is it
Speaker:provides support.
Speaker:The meaning around feet is very
Speaker:much the ability to stand on your
Speaker:own 2 feet and just quickly, like there
Speaker:is a whole lot of science around this.
Speaker:There's massive bodies of work
Speaker:that come from a different angle. Chinese
Speaker:medicine, kinesiology, there's so many
Speaker:different angles that this work around
Speaker:the body talks. There's a fantastic book
Speaker:The body keeps the score. Our body,
Speaker:our body store stress. They they store
Speaker:the emotions from moments from our
Speaker:past. This guy studying people
Speaker:more veterans coming back from war and he
Speaker:did this whole body of work around. It's
Speaker:a fascinating book. So this is. This is
Speaker:not just a spiritual thing
Speaker:that comes from like a pseudoscience,
Speaker:although there is an element of being.
Speaker:Somewhat.
Speaker:Inconclusive, shall we say, But
Speaker:what I know is that the stuff that is
Speaker:grounded in these these areas of
Speaker:certainty, that they actually absolutely
Speaker:proved to be true. I've been through it
Speaker:myself. I've helped people with it.
Speaker:There's a video from a woman, Penny, that
Speaker:I helped a few years back that had a hip
Speaker:injury. She'd tried massage, she'd try
Speaker:acupuncture. She tried all these
Speaker:different things and it wasn't working.
Speaker:And we looked for the root cause, which
Speaker:was around not moving forward after the
Speaker:death of her
Speaker:grandparent who'd been such an
Speaker:influential. Member of
Speaker:her life. For her, when she was growing
Speaker:up and the pain went and.
Speaker:It didn't come back and she was just
Speaker:blown away. She's like, I can't believe
Speaker:like 1 short session and that's gone.
Speaker:And gosh, it came to the paint, came back
Speaker:once and she did the meditation I'd given
Speaker:her and it went again and she's never had
Speaker:pain there again. I've had so many
Speaker:similar scenarios with different body
Speaker:parts because when you remove the
Speaker:emotional cause that it
Speaker:goes. So if you look at care
Speaker:money again, the Achilles heel.
Speaker:Support.
Speaker:Right side of the body is usually a
Speaker:masculine support, left side feminine
Speaker:support. Is he getting enough support? Is
Speaker:he able to stand on his own 2 feet?Is
Speaker:eating support understand his own 2 feet.
Speaker:There's so many different levels. So I'm
Speaker:not going to prepare to be to prepare to
Speaker:be the expert in this area and say this
Speaker:is definitively what it is. But what I
Speaker:know is that that that's that's what it
Speaker:means and.
Speaker:Maybe at this point I got a big year
Speaker:ahead. But he's still traumatised by the
Speaker:previous year where he had to do a lot of
Speaker:the speaking for the team on his own. He
Speaker:didn't feel supported. He wasn't able to
Speaker:stand his own 2 feet. And maybe part of
Speaker:him was looking at this this year,
Speaker:despite the fact that the guru Wayne
Speaker:Bennett's come back. But maybe
Speaker:there's a big part of
Speaker:doubt about whether they've actually got
Speaker:the team to do it and and some of that
Speaker:doubt starting to play out and again.
Speaker:Quite possibly manifested an
Speaker:subconsciously right? This is not a
Speaker:conscious thing. This is not him
Speaker:not wanting to play the year, although
Speaker:there might be some of that too. It's
Speaker:it's a subconscious thing.
Speaker:Get an injury, don't have to worry about
Speaker:the pressure. The first
Speaker:time I learned about this was when I was
Speaker:20 and.
Speaker:I broke my leg extremely badly,
Speaker:Spiral fracture. Now when my uni friends
Speaker:found out, they said they got chills
Speaker:because I don't remember this, but
Speaker:apparently the day before I'd said to all
Speaker:of them rather publicly
Speaker:way, I was way behind with the whole of
Speaker:assessment tasks. There's about four
Speaker:things that had due. We had prac teaching
Speaker:coming up which I was scared of
Speaker:and I said it's all right, I'll break my
Speaker:leg tomorrow, I won't have to worry about
Speaker:any of it. And that's exactly what
Speaker:happened. I manifested that injury and I
Speaker:didn't have to worry about any of those
Speaker:things. Well, I didn't have to worry
Speaker:about was completing the end of my uni
Speaker:course when everyone else is finished
Speaker:well into the end of that year and into
Speaker:the next year to make sure I had the
Speaker:credits to make sure I actually got
Speaker:through in four years instead of having
Speaker:to come back and do another half year.
Speaker:The power of the mind, eh?
Speaker:That would have seemed like a legitimate
Speaker:out. In my head I was thinking
Speaker:broken leg, get on crutches. Actually
Speaker:when I went to hospital that night, I was
Speaker:thinking, Oh yeah, they'll put me in a
Speaker:cast, I'll be back out and I'll be
Speaker:celebrating the team.
Speaker:Little did I know that would be going for
Speaker:surgery in the morning and I'd be out of
Speaker:support for 18 months, so be careful what
Speaker:you wish for. So
Speaker:very much the body will talk to us
Speaker:and I feel for people who get injured,
Speaker:particularly when they are reoccurring
Speaker:injuries. You look like someone like
Speaker:Tomboyovich. I remember thinking about
Speaker:Michael Clarke when he was playing
Speaker:towards the back end of his career and he
Speaker:was getting back injuries consistently.
Speaker:That was at a time where he had to take
Speaker:on the captaincy. A lot of those big
Speaker:names had left. He had a younger team and
Speaker:he was feeling like he was carrying the
Speaker:team on his. And so
Speaker:put all that weight on his back, plus he
Speaker:had a whole lot of stuff going on in his
Speaker:personal life and he's back when and that
Speaker:happened to me as well.
Speaker:So. If you have an
Speaker:injury.
Speaker:Be open to a different way of looking at
Speaker:it. I've had
Speaker:people help me heal injuries
Speaker:that my sports Doctor Who I still trust
Speaker:and still use for different
Speaker:injuries. And
Speaker:then I've gone somewhere else and and
Speaker:they've found a way.
Speaker:So keep an open mind, look for different
Speaker:solutions and if it's a recurring
Speaker:injury. It's looking at
Speaker:the root cause. Is there something that's
Speaker:playing yet more sinister?And if
Speaker:you know someone working in this space at
Speaker:that high level, particularly if they're
Speaker:elite athletes that are having these
Speaker:continual injuries, then.
Speaker:Hook me up. I'd love to work in that
Speaker:space and, and um, yeah, take what I'm
Speaker:already doing for other people and, and
Speaker:take it at that level where the impact
Speaker:won't just be on. What that'll do for
Speaker:that person, but the impact that will
Speaker:have on communities because
Speaker:how many people are connected to their
Speaker:favourite players and. Often it's
Speaker:the the highly emotionally
Speaker:sensitive play that gets those recurring
Speaker:injuries because they feel like
Speaker:they are carrying the load. For everyone
Speaker:else, I'll leave it there. Something to
Speaker:think about. For some of you, this may
Speaker:have stretched your beliefs, but I
Speaker:hope so because that's part of the
Speaker:intention for this is to open your mind
Speaker:to new ways of looking at the world and
Speaker:at yourself.
Speaker:You've taken the time to listen to this
Speaker:whole episode. Now it's time to take
Speaker:action. Commit to one thing you've
Speaker:learned today and make it happen. And to
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