Rest and recouperation

Hi guys

I hope you all had a nice weekend and are enjoying the first few days of spring, its mad as the weather and frost and snow in other countries doesnt really have that spring feel to it!! I love this season though as the days start to get a little longer, the evenings slightly brighter and i know good times and my favourite season of summer is approcahing. I have loads of things planned for the coming months and am very excited about it all. In order to keep some balance in my life, i need to keep working on and treating myself with care - self care. I have been attending accupuncture recently and it is just amazing, last week i cried my eyes out for the whole session it was as if i had so many pent up emotions to release. I felt great after, like i was walking on air. Like a lot of people nowadays and especially those of us sensitive beings, i need time to rest and recouperate. However, over the years i leanrt thru other members in my family and thru condition voice that being was not enough and doing was more important.

I found it difficult in the past to sit still, to read a book, to lie down and just simply be present. As a result my emotional growth was extremely stunted as i found it too difficult to even go there. Lately i am trying to up the care and love for myself as have found i have been very run down lately and not nurturing or in fact nourishing myself in the correct way for my body right now. Thi has meant doing a lot less, reading more my Lesly Pearse book which I am engrossed in, trying to get caught up in plans for the wedding less and being more open and hoenst with my fiance.

I feel good, my sleep is getting better, i feel more rested and i have kicked the remnants of the cold/head sinus stuff that has been lingering since middle december. It reminds me the power of coming backto oursleves. We have 2 parts of the nervous system...one that predominatly is at the front of our body, the sympathetic nervous system or well known as our fight or flight part of us, where our adrenals are heightened, stress is prominent and where we hunch our shoulders, look downwards and externally and can be in our heads a lot. Then there is our parasympathetic nervous system that is more in line with our back body, when open and at work, our heart and chest is lifted, our shoulders are back with confidence and with ease, we are calmer, more relaxed and in touch with ourselves, our INTERNal body and emotions. This for condition is the one that is avoided. However it is essential to balance this part of ourselves with the first one. We need in somewhat to take action, to do, but i am realising more and more each day how much i need the second part.

Since minding self more the last week, i am in better form, more relaxed with people around me and more in touch with me.. writing this post i even remember how much i used to love journaling and i think for spring this is my new beginning or somethig fresh to start again.

enjoy the peace
Love Butterfly xx