Day Eleven: How to begin "editing" the story you tell

 Day Eleven: How to begin "editing" the story you tell

It hit me.

The "pushback" for more rest and letting my body do more recovery, repair, and healing between workouts.

I have jumped in with adding in another set to the Jumpstart workouts. It was only the one go of it. It felt good. I felt that I could add in another one and then the very strong need to just sleep came over me. 

Now granted, our youngest has been messing with the sleep pattern in the house by trying this "All-nighter" thing college kids "do" (As a note, I didn't do them. Sleep ALWAYS came first for me). But I have been crashed out for what feels like days, even though I have kept up with my tracking of measurements. 

I didn't bother with starting the tracking for water. My mental load couldn't go there. Being that the physical thing isn't the only thing I am focused on right now. In the past, when I succeeded in making the changes quickly, it was ALL that I had to focus on. I put off thinking about much of anything else so that I could achieve the success I was working towards. It REALLY helps when you can just put your thoughts, intention, and ATTENTION on the ONE thing and just go!

AND... life doesn't work that way. That's why it is good to get things to the point of habit in your life so they take up less of the mental load and become automatic. 

Water consumption USED to be habit for me because I used the same jar day in and day out. It was a glass mason jar that held 1.5 L. I would also have my first glass in the morning of around 500ml and then sip the big one throughout the day. Then it broke last year... bottom cracked as I was pouring in my daily water to make a tea. I should have replaced it then. Oh well. SO... finding a new container will help me make the hydration moves more of a habit sooner again.

When you feel tired, it brings on a certain level of mind chatter. Languaging more geared toward survival and getting you to a safe space to rest.

But with that chatter this week, I was able to hear the story that is still lingering. In that space, I went through both feeling the weight of the words as well as challenging the narrative and gaining a new perspective on how to better meet the needs my body is looking to get met.

One of which was to add in digestive enzymes more consistently again. We tend to forget all the things that we did on the way to success unless we document it in some way. This way of documenting I chose to do along side the tracking I had once done now puts both aspects in together to better support myself in my journey.

So listen, but don't rehash. Hear, but know that you DON'T have to take it on as truth OR identity. And once you have given it space to "share", move on and give yourself the space of just BEING in the state and presence that you ARE currently existing in, which is merely informed by the story.

The main reason why is... every minute into the future that you are living is unwritten. It sits in the space of potentiality and the unknown. It is ripe and ready to be space by the experiences you choose that will shape it going forward. It's a very powerful space to be in. Again, it is the "Out" space, EVEN in the midst of feeling like you are still pretty stuck. 

The "Out" space will and can meet you WHEREVER you are in your experience and journey. You can be present WITH the solution while stuck in the problem. And then the gift of application that will engain it into your experience and neurology will help you to build a tool that you need to deal personally with challenges and obstacles in YOUR life with more ease and proficiency.

I know I will get out of this energy pothole soon. I just need to keep applying the tools to build in a new outcome to the story I had been telling.