When belief does not meet practice, it’s a call for change to fix the disconnect

What do we encourage here at foodtalk4you?

Balance with food, breathing and mind-set, and body movement. Perfect.

So, what’s the problem?

I look for reasons – excuses, perhaps – but elements of what I already know will often slip away from my daily practice – until I get a nudge.

Then it’s, “Wow! Why did I stop doing that?”Sometimes that nudge is a swift kick in the pants that I am so grateful did not kill me. I get to live another day…doing better again. Duh. I knew better.

Today’s message is about one thing: unplugging from stress.

We all know that stress kills. How that effects our bodies is individualized. From levels of inflammation, mental status, or “dis-ease” of any body system, so much can be traced back to stress.

We all have it. What is your action plan for creating a safe harbor from stress?

We have to have a plan. Finding our ‘happy place’ spoken of last week, is a start, but I have found that I needed to totally unplug from even thinking about anything except for the quality of my next breath and discovering lingering muscle tension in order to release it.

It’s called yoga.

Calming neural pathways and releasing muscle tension makes releasing mental tension so much more natural and obtainable.

When I was a caregiver for my husband, regular yoga classes kept me from going off the cliff.

After his passing, I switched to a calming exercise movement class.

Today, while yoga classes are offered through my HOA, I struggle in the necessary advanced registration process. I needed something more spontaneous.

After experiencing my own swift kick in the pants, I on my computer and am now following Yoga with Kassandra who is one of probably thousands of yoga practitioners online.

Why hadn’t I done that earlier? Doesn’t matter. I’m doing it now.
No blaming. No negative energy. There’s too much of that already, right?
My thirty minutes with Kassandra are now cherished and essential.

No time? I have already found one of her sessions that lasts just a few minutes – but proved to be just what I needed to tune me up for the new day by dialing me down.

Hanging on to the image of Earth as seen from the moon that I referenced last week, it makes sense to embrace the lyrics of an old song by Johnny Mercer.

Chorus: Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers:

Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive. E-lim-i-nate the negative. And latch on to the affirmative

Don’t mess with Mr. In-Between. No, don’t mess with Mr. In-Between You gotta spread joy up to the maximum. Bring gloom down to the minimum. And have faith, or pandemonium. Liable to walk upon the scene

The time is now, sweet readers, to release, relax, and embrace the positive – otherwise our present moment is being given over to the negative, and the moment after that may be snatched away.

In health –

Deidre