Looking into my current life
situations I would rate my physical well-being on a scale from one to ten a
four currently due to my health issues at the moment. It is kind of hard to see
it any other way when you are fighting the battle of your life. On the same
scale I would rate my spiritual well-being as a seven at the moment but working
on that every day by giving myself permission to not be the person who puts
everyone first and not allow myself anytime on my own. This also plays into my psychological
well-being and who I see myself as and who I can live with me being so this
would be a six on that scale. Again I have been working very hard on changing
these for myself and those around me. For the physical well-being I started a few
weeks ago but I have changed how I eat, when I eat, how much I eat as well as
becoming more physically active in my day to day activities. I have set the
goal of reducing my blood pressure and becoming free of diabetes by proper
control of my life and diet. For spiritual and psychological they to me work
together so I will establish these together. In this task I am allowing myself
me time which I have set aside each day, I am also riding with my husband
(truck driver) while not needing to be in treatments or have appointments. Let
me tell you this is working wonders for me to be able to spend time like this
with the love of your life has no explanation but I can tell you this I feel
young again. We can be riding down the road and I look at him and the peace
runs over me like a river over a creek bed.
On the relaxation exercise I
actually want to share something about this. I went to my bedroom and cleared a
area on the floor; turning on the exercise I started to relax… Next thing I
knew my grandsons and granddaughter come bursting in the room quickly ending
the exercise. So I decided to take a walk and go outside and try it…not to much
into the exercise my middle and youngest son come out to “see what mom was
doing”. I actually decided to give up on the exercise. After deciding to ride
on the road with my wonderful husband I was telling him the story and he
suggested that he would not interrupt me; just go in the back to the sleeper
cab and do the exercise…I felt reguvenated and yes I can honestly say that this
exercise has challenged me.
I think you are making some really great strides towards improvement. I want to encourage you to stick to your "me" time. Continue to schedule in time to do nothing or relax even if it's just 10 minutes. In that short space of time you can begin to listen to your body and find out what it needs. This is something I believe can be of benefit to clients or just anyone in general. I know I feel guilty sometimes for scheduling in time to relax when there is so much that needs to be done. But the bottom line is we are not machines and our bodies require rest. It is better to give it periodic rest versus running it down and "crashing" at some point and being of no use to ourselves or anyone else.
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