Hello everyone! This is my first blog that I have ever done. I have always talked about starting one because I always have a ton to say, but no one to listen! Well because this blog is beginning because of a course that I am currently taking called Creating Wellness: Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Healing, I will begin by a wellness focus on psychological and spiritual aspects of healing, and then I will continue the blog beyond this class. What a great way to begin a blog, though. Perhaps I will be able to help another person see something in a way that they never have thought. I am excited to begin this journey here and now. There is some irony when a class that I am taking to earn my degree forces me to do something that I have been putting off, but I think it will benefit me greatly. I hope that everyone is able to enjoy my thoughts and views, and I look forward to writing!
Warm Regards,
Amy
Friday, August 30, 2013
Relaxation:not my strength.
At this point in my life, relaxation seems like an idea located somewhere near Shrek and Fiona in Far Far Away. My four children are involved in football and cheerleading, I am in school full time and volunteered to be the team parent of my oldest son's team (which translates into I do everything except coach), and my husband is in the military (and he's been away for the past week on what I swear is a vacation), I have been running frantically from practice to practice, sending and receiving text messages to and from parents, driving kids to and from school, dealing with my kids missing their dad, making dinners, and all of the other fun stuff that comes with being a stay at home mom. I am exhausted to say the least, yet here I am sitting down writing a blog for a homework assignment that seems to revolve around relaxation. It does not even seem possible to relax.
So I began "Journey On," and within two minutes my two youngest boys were in the house tattling on the their older brother and sister for not playing with them. I told them to play with each other, and that I needed some quiet time to accomplish this assignment. They were compliant, so I began again.
I will admit that I heard them fighting over who was going to play XBOX while I was in the middle of the exercise, but I have become excellent at this selective hearing thing, and I completely tuned them out. The exercise itself probably helped with that as well.
I laid there breathing deeply forcing the blood from my core to circulate throughout my shoulders, arms, and hands. My arms and hands became warm and heavy. Then I begin to think, is my blood really going the way that my mind has told it to go? Do I really have this much control over my blood flow? And I'll be darned, I was barely able to lift my arms. Could I really be this relaxed? For those moments that I spent doing this exercise, I felt completely calm and relaxed. My kids were in the background. My thoughts of things that I must do were no where in sight, and I had very few thoughts outside of relaxation. Amazing!
So, perhaps relaxation is not that far-fetched of an idea for this stay-at-home mother of four. It is basically knowing when and where and how to do it, and then setting some time aside to enjoy the benefits.
Just a side note: today I had an epiphany. I do not have to be available to everyone all of the time. It is okay to have a few moments of quiet time to myself throughout the day, and it is okay to refuse to allow others to interrupt that time. This will not only benefit me, but also my children can learn to respect my time.
Heavily and warmly relaxed (lol),
Amy
So I began "Journey On," and within two minutes my two youngest boys were in the house tattling on the their older brother and sister for not playing with them. I told them to play with each other, and that I needed some quiet time to accomplish this assignment. They were compliant, so I began again.
I will admit that I heard them fighting over who was going to play XBOX while I was in the middle of the exercise, but I have become excellent at this selective hearing thing, and I completely tuned them out. The exercise itself probably helped with that as well.
I laid there breathing deeply forcing the blood from my core to circulate throughout my shoulders, arms, and hands. My arms and hands became warm and heavy. Then I begin to think, is my blood really going the way that my mind has told it to go? Do I really have this much control over my blood flow? And I'll be darned, I was barely able to lift my arms. Could I really be this relaxed? For those moments that I spent doing this exercise, I felt completely calm and relaxed. My kids were in the background. My thoughts of things that I must do were no where in sight, and I had very few thoughts outside of relaxation. Amazing!
So, perhaps relaxation is not that far-fetched of an idea for this stay-at-home mother of four. It is basically knowing when and where and how to do it, and then setting some time aside to enjoy the benefits.
Just a side note: today I had an epiphany. I do not have to be available to everyone all of the time. It is okay to have a few moments of quiet time to myself throughout the day, and it is okay to refuse to allow others to interrupt that time. This will not only benefit me, but also my children can learn to respect my time.
Heavily and warmly relaxed (lol),
Amy
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