Reminding myself of simple things
20 Aug 2010 1 Comment
I hereby propose that the people who get the most done, go the farthest, last the longest, are the ones who really know how to take care of themselves. Because, anyone can get exhausted about anything, and you can spend as much energy on something as you want.
Abraham would say, ‘overwhelm’ is when you’re summoning more life force to flow through you than you’re allowing.
The overarching theme of August, for me, has been exhaustion. So! I have come to a point where I want to consciously make an effort to baby myself, to see if I can coax my body into allowing greater and greater amounts of life force energy to flow through it.
I’m going to focus on making use of things that are easily and immediately available in my current environment. Here is what I am going to do:
- push the water. At least 8 glasses a day.
- push the fluids — non-caffeinated tea, juice, soup
- breathe deeply. It’s amazing that two of the most relaxing and healing ingredients to life, air and water, are available to most of us in unlimited supply and we don’t take full advantage of them. This is perhaps the hardest for me of all of them, because most of my breathing isn’t conscious.
- no caffeine. I have been working on this project all month and think I’m finally past the cravings and headaches. Yay!
- stretch, every morning
- meditate, every morning
- go to the sauna. I keep forgetting that I bought a bunch of passes a while back that I have hardly used.
- if I need to and have the time, if it feels good, I am going to permit myself an afternoon nap
- be on the lookout for more simple things to incorporate
Additionally, I am eyeing this 8-week program for beginning runners.
