kimee
Joy Diet: Week 1 - Nothing - Mid week check-in
posted Wednesday, 23 September 2009
So this week I have been practicing taking time for myself. This is part of the Joy Diet. Now a little background, I've been running around like a mad woman for so long that this is extremely hard. Everytime I check my email or look at my phone, someone wants me to do something for them. I am used to working two full time jobs. When I wasn't working I was in school. I never stopped. Stopping seems foreign. And to be honest with you, I believe I am healthy because I have never stopped. The rest of my family have stopped & well it's been really difficult to get back going again. I don't want that to happen. I need to keep going. However I realize the need to stop a little bit.
Some thoughts in the book were...
"We shape clay into a pot but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want" - reading that took my breath away for about five minutes & then I realized that the bigger the pot the more stuff you can fit in there. Which isn't always a good thing. .
"Going on vacation is just adding a different somethings to our schedules for a brief period. Vacation - act of vacating. Of leaving, loosing touch with, letting go of." I need to vacation in my room a little bit :) Just let things go. So it's been a week of schedule adjusting & giving myself permission to let others wait for me. To just catch my breath. Of finding my own rhythm again.
comments (1)
1. Sherry left...
Thursday, 24 September 2009 4:31 pm :: http://everydaypossibilities.blogspot.co
That's it really in a nutshell...vacating for a bit, to adjust and to give
ourselves time to catch our breath. We can keep doing and being
busy/active, but we absolutely must have some time for ourselves or we are
no good to anyone else. Looking forward to going through this diet of you
with you.