Re: Up and Down day today

[Anonymous]

LB3: Hang in there. Get some music going. Loud, energetic, angry if necessary music and get your blood going for 30-40 minutes can do wonders. I don’t feel a sense of accomplishment, when I finish a workout, but I recognize how much I work through in my head by getting in to rhythm with the music and the flow of the exercise creates focus and when I get in the zone on the stationary bike, I start remembering all the fun I had as a kid riding my bike, the warmth of summer, laughter, and I get happy. Just a little, but it’s a little more every day. I can carry the feelings for several hours and I find that I’m looking forward to getting to my next session.

I still fight going to bed at night because it means I have to get up and go to work. This messes with my sleep patterns and restfulness, which impacts my energy, which impacts my mood, which causes everything to be a fight, which wears me out, makes me frustrated and tired, but if I go to sleep I have to wake up in the morning and do it again even more tired than I was today. Quite a self-pitying way to live that can spiral down out of control fast. So what to do? Find something that is worth getting out of bed for. It makes it easier to get to bed, easier to get better sleep so you feel rested so things can progress more easily and with less stress and more fun, which makes you want to do it again.

Life should be a slow meandering journey where we stop and enjoy as much as possible rather that living solely to meet goals and, pay bills. When the morning is a challenge, get in the shower, go out for a treat like a coffee/muffin/magazine, smile and say Hi to 5 people, then continue with your day. It would be much easier if we could give ourselves the okay to hit a reset button for our moods, this as close as I can get for me.

Have a great day!

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