While our mind can struggle to change its mind, our body offers the dynamic truth of our reality if we care to tune in and dare to trust it
Paying attention and tending to our body can pay dividends, engendering trust and allowing us to show up in life in a dynamic and flowing way rather than fixated rules and regulations made up by the mind to keep us safe and based on old paradigms that may no longer serve us
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So I’ve been unwell and had a week in bed recently with a flu type bug virus and then needed two weeks to convalesce. This is my 4th week and I feel fantastic in my 4th week.
During the two weeks of convalescing however I had the real mindbody conundrum again. My mind was frustrated I wasn’t recovering quickly enough, I was lazy, I was good for nothing; panic set in, thinking I’d never get up again, that something had gone terribly wrong.. it catastrophized about losing clients, losing money, went into real survivor states and the messages were all about survival really.
And I chose instead really to pay homage to my body, to stay close, tune into my body and notice day by day, hour by hour. moment by moment what my body needed.
And in those two weeks of convalescing I really had to dial it back. I had to stop with all my self care practices, I got up later, I needed to sleep a lot more, in between clients I would rest, I needed siestas, I got myself to bed each evening earlier than usual, and a lot had to go on a back burner.
And in all of this my mind as I said was catastrophising, but I chose to honour my body, to back my body and stick to what I’d set out to do.
And in the event, here we are in the 4th week and I feel so much better and delighted that I was able to stay true to my body on this occasion, to manage my mind and all the worry and stresses that it was coming out with, the statements, even the bullying tactics of how lazy I am I am, a good for nothing so and so, that I need to get my act together, pull myself together…
So I witnessed all of this with compassion, with love, because I understand my mind was only trying to protect me with all its strategies of doing, being, showing up. And it was panicking that I was doing differently.
And, I’m so glad I did differently! So for me on this occasion it worked and what’s come about has been a real engenderment of trust within myself that I did what I felt was right rather than what my mind wanted me to do based on old conditionings, old habits or practices or survival strategies, and instead I really paid attention and did what my body needed on this time. So, it’s worked for me this time. I feel so much better, I feel stronger, I feel ready to go about my business back to normal, and nothing terrible happened in the event, and I’m delighted that I’ve chosen this time and going forwards to back my body and feel so much better for it.
