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# Do you let bruises heal?
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/do-you-let-bruises-heal/
- Published: 2026-09-09T06:00:34.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-09T08:27:14.000Z
- Description: Looking to the body for the mind cheat-sheet 🤕
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Metaphor, Wisdom, Trauma, Thought realisation, Resilience, Quick insight, Psychology, Mental Health, MECHANICS, Guilt, Attention

> *“Ooh I love this, so simple and so bloody true - thank you, great reminder!”*  
> \~ Julie, UK

Genuine question: do you let bruises heal?

Or do you keep prodding them?

🧐

I’m guessing you leave them alone.

Because on some level you understand that life energy/the wisdom of the mind-body/your innate health will just get on with it in the background.

A silent, invisible process.

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But oh how our tune changes when it’s a bruised ego, or a psychological thwack we’ve received from another person, or something that’s happened.

Repeatedly thinking about it is the equivalent of repeatedly prodding the bruise.

It doesn’t give life energy/the wisdom of the mind-body/your innate health the chance to do its stuff in the background: to heal, to process silently and invisibly. 

To provide perspective.

We innocently re-traumatise our selves every time we prod that bruise.

How about you stop doing that?

💟

Giles

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Ditto.