Pay attention to body messages.
Take time for yourself.
Give yourself enough time in the morning to make the day your own first.
(When children and families involved this may be no easy task!)
In conversation
On radio
On television
it is often said that an individual has ‘lost their battle with ______’
(fill in the blank with the name of a disease).
This troubles me because Battle brings
images of blood and gore
stories of aggression and stealth.
memories of helplessness in the face of dying and death.
Unpleasant and frightening all.
A couple of hours later, on CBC’s Cross Country Check-up
(Suhanna Meharchand was hosting for Rex Murphy today)
the question was about assisted suicide due to the recent Supreme Court decision in BC.
My thoughts about engaging with life
seemed trivial and insignificant.
However, the more I listened the more I returned to
my belief that engaging with life
in sickness
in health
when death comes knocking, or sneaking in the back door,
is an important piece of self care so frequently missing.
Will engaging in life by
healthy diet
healthy relationships
regular exercise
regular sleep patterns
spontaneous, and sometimes outrageous, fun and games
prevent disease?
Engaging with life may not prevent disease,
however learning to live in the moment
teaches how to roll with the bumps in the road
and whatever else might be in the way.
Engaging with life teaches us how to be present ~
to look in the face the pleasant and the unpleasant.
to honour our lives from birth to death.
“Invent your world. Surround yourself with
people, color, sounds and work that nourish you.”
~ Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
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