Our bodies are truly amazing but it isn’t until they stop working, as well as we would like, that we take any time to notice how things are. Helen, a fitness instructor that I have known for many years, reminded me of this on Monday. As Helen says our bodies are the most amazing things that we will ever own and we need to pay them more attention.
Relaxation is a good time to tune in to what our body is
saying and if we do this regularly we will get to hear the messages we need to
hear and be able to respond. Oh no I hear you cry; I haven’t time to spend
relaxing that’s the last thing on my list! Well if you don’t spend some time
listening to your body it will just have to send you louder and louder messages
and eventually you will have to pay attention because things have become so bad
that you can’t function as you would wish. Then there will be more to be done
to fix things.
Let’s not get to the point where we have to stop because we
have missed all the clues. How about scheduling in a 20 minute relaxation
session once a week, actually put it in your diary and make sure you take the
time to nurture yourself.
The thing is this, if we are well then we can take care of all
the things we need to but if we are under par things become a struggle and take
us twice as long. We could have spent the time relaxing and listening and
prevented the struggle being necessary, relaxation is time well spent.
Bye for nowBrenda x
