re-learning to listen to myself
One thing last weekend revealed to me in technicolor, something that I obviously needed to re-learn, is that pushing my body the way I have of late is not permissible. Or perhaps it is, but I do need breaks, and also to pay attention to things like nutrition. The nutrition bit I added on my own; I haven’t exactly been starving myself, just not paying attention to balance in my diet.
So I’m trying to eat – among other things – more mindfully. One thing that just occurred to me (I’m recording it here mostly for my own benefit) is something I’ve heard before but only tangibly felt now: when impulsively hungry, before getting food check if the hunger is really thirst.
This immediately takes care of two problems: the erratic eating schedule, and also the amount of liquids I’ve been ingesting, which for a while now has felt too low.
J. wrote again. This time I will write back, despite my intense feelings of guilt over not having written for… oh, long. My daily work will be changing rather radically come fall (more on this later). One thing I sure am looking forward to is figuring out ways to save some time, my most precious commodity, for my personal life. Won’t that be grand!
I’m behind on my blogging, again, as ever. Been too busy living.
June 24th, 2004 at 11:36 am
Isn’t that always the way? Life getting in the way of writing about life; story of my writing career, actually.
June 24th, 2004 at 7:28 pm
I’m relieved to hear that you’re being mindful of your health. I don’t like to worry about you.
June 24th, 2004 at 9:21 pm
Thirst being especially important since caffeine dehydrates