Belated Happy New Year! I'm so glad I can write you today. I had no idea I would catch a cold/flu the first week of the year. In order to get well, I had to cancel my appointments, ask someone for support, drink chicken soup, take it easy and rest.
By the grace of God, I recovered in a week and was able to resume my work, including giving two presentations. I am so grateful for my health!
The body holds much of the information we need to function at our best, but too often we ignore its messages and plow ahead with what our minds tell us. Perhaps because we’re not taught from early on to pay attention to internal messages as well as external demands, we frequently ignore our body’s communications.
By the grace of God, I recovered in a week and was able to resume my work, including giving two presentations. I am so grateful for my health!
The body holds much of the information we need to function at our best, but too often we ignore its messages and plow ahead with what our minds tell us. Perhaps because we’re not taught from early on to pay attention to internal messages as well as external demands, we frequently ignore our body’s communications.
So we take another
extra-strength aspirin rather than investigating what’s causing our head to
ache. We use more caffeine or sugar to give us a lift when we feel tired,
rather than hearing our body’s message about needing rest or recognizing our
fatigue as an early symptom of burnout we’d do well to heed. A look at little children may be all the message we need about the value of naps.
We fail to take into
account the thousand little messages communicated to us by how we’re holding
ourselves: the mouth that’s pinched and tight rather than relaxed. The fact
that our shoulders are up around our ears, the knot of tension in our stomach
as we promise to do something when closer consideration might tell us we are
already over-extended.
