Welcome to 2014 — by now you may have made and broken some new years resolutions, or maybe you’re one of the roughly 50% of people who don’t make resolutions. Either way, it’s an interesting time of the year: fresh start, new beginnings. Good intentions may be followed by the inevitable letdown, backslide, slipping into old patterns. As Forrest Gump said, “It happens.”
I’ve always been fascinated by what motivates people to create and sustain change in their lives, including how they relate to their bodies. How do we find effortless flow in the inevitable ups and downs and how do we not get stuck when we’re down so we don’t stay down? We might get too busy to keep up the exercise program we started. That old ache or pain or sore shoulder or headache that you thought you had handled shows up again. You just want a good night sleep before a big presentation and can’t find a comfortable sleeping position. Or you spent the entire day exhausted and when you finally do go to bed, your mind is racing. Or… well we all have our own story.
What keeps us there is buying into the story.
This year can be the year to take a deeper look at what your body is telling you. How often do we treat these issues as some sort of separate problem to be fixed rather than as a message from ourselves to ourselves? Instead of looking at these setbacks as conditions that are outside our control, start seeing them as messages from our deeper selves. Maybe we’re taking on too much, our stress level is beyond our capacity to adapt, or we need simple things like more sleep or stretching.
This year rather than letting the inevitable lapse take you down and back to where you were before, hit the pause button. Whether it’s that old discomfort showing up or just veering off course from where you know you want to be, I invite you to take a deeper look at what your body is telling you. The body never lies. What is its message? Slow down, speed up, do something different? The answer might not come in a news flash, or I guess these days a text message, but it might be in the process of taking that moment to notice and ask what we can do to chart a new course.
-Dr. David Carson
Our fear of failure and of not being enough is a slap in the face of our Soul.
Insurance and MSP Assistance Renewal
If you have extended insurance or you benefit from MSP premium assistance, your coverage renews January 1. These benefits can help you reach your 2014 health goals!