Has Inertia Set In?

I have had a blog post brewing in my mind for the last several weeks but it feels like wading through melting cheese to get it out of my mind and onto the blogsite. Come to think of it, it feels like wading through melting cheese to get anything going these days! What gives peeps? I'll tell you what gives.... It almost seems like the world around us and the world inside us is moving in slow motion. I've never been a napper but I am finding myself yearning for just that. My vocabulary has been reduced to single syllables. I don't want to get up in the morning. I don't feel like cooking. Left unchecked, this could be disastrous. Many holistic practioners emphasize embracing, not fighting, the natural swings of the seasons and seeking BALANCE in every area of our lives. So instead of a 2 hour nap, take the dog out for a brisk walk. Instead of grunting, sit down and write a blog entry or call an old friend. Instead of flipping around in bed feeling guilty in the morning, get up and drink a big glass of water and do some breathing exercises. Instead of eating another tortilla with butter, cut up some fruit. Of course this is a major oversimplification of the science of listening to your body and responding, merely a suggestion of where and how you might begin to look at how you're feeling.This is the challenge...when we are feeling imbalanced, rarely do we want to do that which would actually balance us! Often, the thing that would benefit us most, is the thing we're least inclined to do. How easily we forget that balance is what heals and that stepping off the track or hamster wheel we're spinning on may be just the thing to help us regain our center, even though it seems like plugging away on the grid is what will get us there. Or that any day now, we'll just spontaneously feel better. So if you've also recently slid into a pattern of stagnancy, or the flip side of that, a pattern of over-commiting followed by exhaustion, you might consider doing that which least appeals to you in the spirit of finding balance. Just experiment and see if it does in fact make you feel a little more balanced and then go from there...


Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. ~Marcus Valerius Martial