You know me, I like to use sensational titles to get people to read my posts :-). This is one of those such titles. But here is what I mean...
Last night I lay down in bed with my 15 month old to try and put her to sleep. She does this thing when she is really, really, REALLY tired, this nervous body twitching, fidgeting, manic-pre-sleep stage where she just can't let herself sleep. She keeps herself awake with babbling, with kicking covers around, with grabbing me, playing with her belly button...you name it, she does it. So as I'm laying there I start thinking about how someone once told me about Labs (as in the dog breed, not the science room), and how if you throw them a ball into the water (which they love), they will just keep running and running until they keel over from a heart attack.
So I started to think as I lay with Gia, that I felt a bit like that dog...and my daughter, at the same time. Running, running, going, going, and even when I'm trying to sleep, or take some down time I sabotage myself from rest (but instead of playing with my belly button I'm running through my grocery list or my plan for the next day.) I love my life, and I have so many things I love that I want to cram into it (well, and so many things I have to cram in that I'm not particularly excited about, yet must get done), that I find myself running for the ball in the water until I might just pass out because even when the ball isn't being thrown, I'm still looking for it.
So this is just a shout out reminder to everyone else out there who is doing this very thing (which is just about every woman I meet)...we need to take a real breather and let everything go for a moment, or we might keel over from sheer exhaustion--or worse, have a heart attack. :-) On that note, I will say that my 3 minutes of meditation in the morning that I've been doing is really great. I think I might adopt it at night too actually. It is simple, for 3 minutes I sit and think about the sun, that is it, just the sun. My mind wanders, and the sun takes on some random forms and shapes, but it doesn't matter. When I do it, I feel more centered, more relaxed, and less like a harried dog. The fact that it is only 3 minutes makes it easier for me to commit to, and I still get benefit from it (who knows if I'd get 10 times more if I did it for 30 minutes, but since I don't have 30 minutes it doesn't much matter.) I highly recommend it!
Signed, ME {lv}
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