Recharging
our batteries
Hi
Thinking out loud here xx :D
I
recommend for every MHM you grab a little snack, a drink and a comfy
seat and take this time for you. Take as long as you need on this
beautiful Monday to read this post.
How
are we already on to week three of MHM I'm surprised I have stuck at
this for three weeks but I am proud that we are here, let's keep
going. I know I did a check-in last week, but I'm going to do another
one this week as well. I'll be honest I feel like I have written and
rewritten this post five times already but I think I have found a
topic to talk about, incidentally I got this idea from my laptop
needing to be plugged into power so let's talk about recharging our
own batteries.
It
can be so easy for us to keep going, keep moving and keep being
active, or our minds continually thinking none stop. This can be nice
but eventually, we all hit that wall of enough is enough. Take this
weekend for instance, on Friday it was my little cousins 8th
birthday so we spent all day getting ready for when she came home
from school, her trampoline being built, birthday cake being made (its
surprising how long it takes to make a cake, took me a good few hours,
mainly waiting for it to cool enough to frost it and decorate it)
then the big surprise and present opening, along with having a few
friends over two from school and one from the street, on a typical day
this is energy-sapping on a birthday and having so much excitement
around we can times that sapping by two, so to recharge from that,
comes an early night, for most people when your body though decides
that your usual bedtime of midnight to one am is still a good idea (I
beg to differ, but what works for you brain, you will one day learn.)
Then
Saturday was party day (this is where an early night would have
been a god idea) As a little note it was all COVID safe, everyone
there kept their distance from each group, mostly, the tables were few and
far between, parents were to a minimum as in most kids came with
another kid, so it kept the numbers down, it worked at two kids pretty
much to one adult. Then my cousin and I had booked into hot yoga on
the Friday night (we might be crazy, but I regret nothing) If you
haven't done yoga of any kind I can not recommend it enough. After a
kids party I can think of a better way to charge your batteries than
to do a yoga session, sixty minutes of heat, sweat, and time to heal
your body, thank your body and allow any stress, anxieties and aches
to be relieved, I would say the best way to recharge your body, as we
say we never regret going to a class. Let's not mention the mess we
came back to of unwrapped and most if not all presents out of
packaging and packaging everywhere.
Sunday,
was well let's not mention the mess from Saturday as it was spent mostly
getting the house back into some kind of organisation and the living
room back into a living room and not what can only be called a
dumpsite, but it's fair to say it doesn't always look like that but I
have to say making space for new things and being ruthless with old
stuff felt pretty good being able to throw things away that had been
long forgotten about. Another way to fully clear your mind, also a
way I never knew could recharge your batteries, even if it was also a
little tiring, not to mention the at one point having four kids with
two adults busy cleaning, the constant asking for you to go on the
trampoline. I also need to add the early night I didn't get on either
Friday or Saturday I did get, I was in bed by nine-thirty and asleep
by 11:59 I'll take that as a win on the sleep anything before
midnight is good even if its a minute before.
Looking
back now, I see each day had its own different way of recharging me
and preparing me for the next day, I may have been fatigued,
had a headache for half the day Sunday but regardless of each recharge
worked in different ways and helped for those days. Would a one-child
only day on Sunday have been good? Yes, but I can't say that looking
back now I would have chosen that, as much as it was hard, at times
annoying we coped, we had fun, and we accomplished what we needed to
do. What works for me might not work for you. This is how I got
through what was a hectic weekend, tiring. Still, fun, eventful, a time
for celebration in a time of uncertainty, a little bit of normality,
it was hard. Despite this, it showed me that there is always a way to find time
for you.
There is invariably a way of making it possible to recharge for
the next day. Whether for you that is reading a book going for a
walk, going to the gym, swimming, baking, cooking whatever it is that
helps you relax and takes you away from life for thirty to sixty
minutes do it today, use that time you carve out to recharge, take
some deep breaths and relax. Set a timer, don't keep checking it, let
the time tick on and really get into what you are doing to recharge
your body, your battery that enables you to do everything else.
If
you don't have that long then ten to five minutes is just as good and
better than no minutes. It can even be before you go to bed tonight
you go to be a little earlier to fit in the time for you, and only
you, let all worries of today and tomorrow go. Be present in the now
only, be present with you and your breath. This is your time for you,
for your body and for your health, physical, mental and spiritual. Like our devices every night or day get recharged, we also need to be recharged don't let your body run low, let those around you know that you need to take some time out to be able to join in and enjoy what is happening with those you are fortunate to have around you.
Thank
you for reading I hope you have a lovely day, and I hope you do take
the time to recharge your batteries I would love to know how you go
please if you like let me know in the comments and any suggestions of
what I can write next is gratefully accepted, please also feel free
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Love
always Thinking out loud xx :D
