We are not stopping here though! This weekend is the event (yay!) and we can't wait to have some fun, do some walking and raise more money for the American Cancer Society. If you can't make it to the event but would like to help us to fight this battle, please donate to our efforts. As an added bonus, if you donate even just a dollar, you are entered into win two fabulous prints from the wonderful Rhianne's shop. See all the details here.
Okay, onto our regularly scheduled post...
While being sick these past two week, I learned one big lesson. My mind is way stronger than my body. I always believe I can do things and be things and say things that my body is physically not capable of. From aerial yoga to loving a man that wasn't right, my mind said yes, while my body and heart were screaming no the whole time.
After thinking about this, I realized that I do this all the time, not just when I'm sick. I always let my mind win. I don't let my body shed tears or express emotions when I'm hurt by a loved one, I don't allow my body give me signs when it's not being treated well with hurt knees to hurt hearts, and most of all I don't allow my body to express what my heart really is feeling. Even on the opposite spectrum, when my body wants to have fun and be crazy, I allow my mind to stop it. I allow my mind, my silly, silly mind, to take over and control my emotions and movements and all things that I should allow to come naturally.
Anyways, I'm rambling now... I don't know if I'll ever really change this part of my being, but just knowing that it exists helps a lot already. Next time I'm in the fight with mind over body, I'm going to let my body take it for the win.
- Do yoga - yoga forces you to slow down, to be in the present, to treat your body gently and to truly feel your body. It also teaches us to be kinder to our bodies.
- Notice your body - pay attention to what you're doing, the way your skin feels as you touch it, the type of pressure that you life, the way your muscles soften or contract in response to things, just notice how your body feels as you move through the day.
- Communicate with your body - consider what your body goes through every time you hush it or bash it. Communicate with your body, talk to it and learn from it.
- Remember that you are whole - see your body as a full piece, not just portions of a whole. Kind of like a relationship, the two people should be a whole not two pieces of whole.
- Take a breather - literally stop what you are doing and see what your body has to say. It will tell you what you are looking for if you give it a chance.
Which are you, mind or body?
8 ♥ Thoughts:
Hurray, Jenni that is so amazing!
I'm exactly the same as you and then I tend to get the worst Migraine to compensate... I hate being ill or weak in any way though, so I guess I probably wont change either - though I really need to take up yoga again.
thank you! you are amazing. i support you in your efforts to raise money. i do. i do.
i am glad you are feeling a little better. being sick is the pits.
i am a little bit of mind and body. working on the mind more and more.
You are just way too awesome for words lady.
I'm definitely a body person. The slightest twinge and I'm canceling plans and curling up in bed. I think that comes from having migraines up until I hit about 21. I got so used to having to stop my whole life every time I had one that I started doing it any time I got sick. So sad.
congrats to you and your team!!!!!
i don't know how you do it lady! i think i'm a body more than a mind. you are awesome, i <3 you!!!!!!
I don't believe a true separation can be made between body and mind. The relationship is symbiotic; favouring one too much over the other will upset that balance.
Our body is a filter. We retain both the good and bad that passes through it, whether it's food, drugs, alcohol, exercise (or lack of). The results of this are reflected in the way we look and feel physically, as well as what we project to people around us. So it can very much colour our attitude and what we bring to others.
The mind is very much the same. What we take in, good or bad, filters through us. What's left we pass on to others; how positive or negative we're perceived is largely dependant on what or who we choose to listen to at the outset. We give what we get. Which brings me to the heart (my favourite subject).
You get a lot of love here Jen.
A LOT.
Every day you take it in from those who very openly express their affection towards you. That too passes through you, what you retain is very evidently reflected in the kind of person you are.
Please don't ever be afraid to express what you're feeling emotionally, good or bad. A heart that doesn't share what it feels is like a mind that doesn't share what it knows.
Mind, body and heart all have certain desires and needs which shouldn't be denied. The trick is deciding which to feed. In the meantime, I hope you'll analyze less and love, feel, cry and dance more.
You're only young once.
i so appreciate what barry has to say.
jenn i love that you are picking up gifts along the journey of your life and trying to best version of yourself. hope that you can find balance when needed.
have a terrific relay this weekend!
Definitely mind as well. Very interesting post my friend! I think our minds will never cease to amaze us!
Ugh, I am all mind. I need to also be better to my body. I keep meaning to start a more regular habit of yoga, but my mind keeps me busy and away from the things I need to relax with.
Thanks for the inspiration -- I think that no matter how I feel, I'm going to push myself to connect with my body again with yoga. It's been way too long!
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