Self-care looks different for each person and changes from day to day, depending on the variant conditions. It’s uniquely your own. What does it look like for you? That is, what does it look like TODAY as opposed to yesterday or the unknown of tomorrow.
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living
& for the more anxious and stressed, practice being a Warrior in order to be less of a Worrier:)
Heading into Valentines Day weekend with this in mind …:
“If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without self-care, it’s next to impossible to care for others. Without loving yourself first, it’s next to impossible to love others.
All this requires us to harness that fizzled energy – to no longer be depleted but charged up. The answer is not more and more exercise for a dopamine inducing quick addictive fix at the gym but … REST, enjoy nature, exercise wisely, pump up to light perspiration, cool down, stretch and tone … Yoga has so many different styles – so many poses that can be combined in myriad of combinations … like martial arts, it’s such an art. So much to learn; so much to share – the goodness.
* for the reverse warrior, and all warriors, I do not allow the knee to protrude past that perpendicular line above the ankle in an effort to protect my knees as I have seen what a damage there can do to one’s mobility:
Situated between the two longest bones in your body (the tibia and fibula), the classic door-hinge knee joint bends in one plane of motion-backward, not forward or side to side. It’s at risk for strain and injury because of its limited range of motion, the heavy load your knees carry, and the torque (from twisting motions) generated by the two lever-like bones.
While you may hear about knee injuries most commonly in the form of professional athletes who tear their ACLs (anterior cruciate ligaments), the more common knee injury for those of us who do and don’t play with pigskin is actually a meniscus tear.
– Michael F. Roizen, MD, From “YOU, the owner’s manual”.
