It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time to write a post about gratitude!
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Okay – now for today’s post:
I’m still feeling under the weather.
I will admit that yesterday I was feeling pretty down on myself about it. I pride myself on going years without getting sick, and somehow my ego got involved and was upset that I allowed this to happen.
And then I started to apply what I teach and looked for the messages and deeper meaning of why this illness showed up right now.
The universe is constantly sending us messages – most of which we are too busy to hear.
When we returned from our trip last week, we both said we would take at least one day off to settle in and rest. We had five packed days at a wonderful conference without much sleep, and a 16-hour travel day coming home.
And while we did take it a bit easier than normal, it’s a slippery slope figuring out what actually constitutes work and what doesn’t. So we starting sliding down the slope…
I continued to get messages in the back of my mind telling me to rest, meditate, sit outside, be still. And yet I pushed them aside and kept going forward.
This continued for two days – I even had dreams telling me to slow down.
And I continued to push these messages aside.
And then the message came in a much stronger form – in the form of actually being sick. Now I had to rest – be still – and just be.
So the challenge that seems to keep popping up for me is to be able to hear and act on the message when it’s a whisper, rather than waiting until it becomes a scream.
So I’m still on the couch with a fever that is still on the rise, and I thought it would be a healing experience to write what I am grateful for about this experience and what it is teaching me.
I am grateful that because of it, I am actually taking time to slow down and rest.
I am grateful for this opportunity to look within and be able to grow, so I will react differently the next time a similar situation appears.
I am grateful that I get to catch up on tons of movies – some that I had completely forgotten about.
I am grateful that Biddle (my sweet cat) and I get to hang out and take lots of naps together.
I am grateful that I have the world’s most comfy couch – especially since that’s where I am camped out.
I am grateful for homemade sorbet made with ice and V8 100% juice.
I am grateful that I have been unplugged from email for longer than I ever can remember.
I am grateful that I have taken time each day to sit outside for a few minutes and let the sun heal me.
I am grateful for a wonderful husband who takes such great care of me.
I am grateful for your wonderful words of healing and love.
I am grateful that I finally listened and stopped doing.
Gratitude comes in all sorts of forms in a variety of places – some of which you would least expect.
And if we can be grateful in the hard times, it will make being grateful during the great times that much easier.
