By nature I am a what some people may say a workaholic.
Most days you would find me doing the most.
If my body wasn’t moving then my mind was.
I recall as a child, running, climbing trees, challenging anyone to race and just plain busy.
As an adult I have loads of responsibilities that had to be completed.
Along with working hard, I also had a habit of adding other people’s stuff to my list.
You can count on me, I will be there!
Then one day some thing began to take place in my life.
Pain began to erupt in my legs, head and back.
Like most workaholics, I simply ignored it and kept pushing!
Most of you know what I am talking about.
The days went by and I found myself in pain more often than I care to recall.
The fact of life is that I had overworked my body and it was telling me to slow down.
My body was saying slow down, but I what I heard was “you are trying to quit.”
For you reading this, let me help you.
There is a major difference between quitting and slowing down.
Quitting is giving up and not completing the goals or task.
Slowing down is to take a moment and catch your breath, breathe and allow your mind some rest.
Unfortunately it took my body shutting down for me to understand the difference.
Honestly it took me too long to learn this lesson, and too much pain to finally catch on.
Perhaps you are where I was, just running yourself into a place of break down.
If I can help one person writing this blog my mission will be complete.
Sleep was something I did the least of, and needed the most.
To simply lay down, or sit down and put my feet up was foreign to me.
There was only so much time in the day, with much to accomplish.
Work while you can, and work some more was my motto.
The breakdown in my body taught me, that I was abusing myself.
Wisdom had to help me to understand that I needed, to simply get some where and be still.
How that looked for me was doing nothing.
My body was craving sleep, and that is what I needed to give it.
After studying what happens when we sleep, I felt so ashamed of how I had treated my body.
Sleep restores, and rejuvenate our body and mind.
We are nicer with sleep:)
Perhaps you are stilling trying to justify your neglect of self-care.
Here is a charge for you; take one day out of the week and begin to train yourself to relax, laugh and be still.
Yes it will be hard at first but your body will thank you for it, as well as those around you!
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Breathe in again.
Breathe out again.
Remember to work smarter not harder.
Leave your list of things to do, and go to bed.
Sleep is good for you.
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