Affirmation Wednesday

 

For the last few months, I have been feeling depleted, without energy. While the current situation has obviously been trying for many people around the world on many levels, I have been lucky enough to stay at home, actually doing things I enjoy. So, to me, there doesn’t seem to be any reason why I have been feeling so tired. I have had periods of inactivity followed by many periods of productivity, so not turning into a sloth and not burning myself out running around like a headless chicken. I just can’t pinpoint it. I have been focusing on my health with healthy eating (which I usually do), meditation (which I also usually do), daily taichi, workouts every other day (at the moment I am following the Yoga Burn Core program, 3 days a week). I have also introduced recently an energy medicine practice and breathing exercises that I add to my meditation, as well as night time healing activation. Yes, I will admit, I don’t go outside, I don’t get fresh air very regularly. Could it be that? In any case I have been trying to stick to routines, introduce new ones in the hope that my vitality will turn up and grow exponentially. But it’s not coming. I get peaks and then drop back down. With this week’s affirmation, “I heal myself with love and respect “, I think that I finally got it. I’ve been going around it the wrong way. Yes, you need to organise and introduce healthy habits, but not in desperation, forcing it upon yourself to do it and beat yourself up if you miss one session. You need to go through the whole process of healing “with love and respect “, for your body, your mind, how you are currently feeling, what you are going through, what you feel is right and exactly what you need at that particular moment.

A totally new perspective for me, used to planning and organising and ticking boxes off my precious to-do list. I’m not sure yet how I’m going to go about it. I have started a “checking in/checking out” journal to take into account my current state and what I have planned to do. Will that be the answer? I guess I’ll soon find out.

Where do you feel you are right now as far as your healing is concerned?

When you say the affirmation to yourself out loud, does it feel true to you?

What does healing yourself with love and respect mean to you? What does it look like?

What do you feel is missing so that you can heal yourself with love and respect?

These journaling questions, I hope, will help you explore the background for the affirmation to set in. For weeks I felt some of my affirmations not really speaking to me, and I found out that it was because I wasn’t connecting to them fully. Asking myself these types of questions have helped me see where the affirmation fits in to my life, my current state and my feelings. You don’t have to have all the answers - as you can see from my intro, I certainly haven’t. And that is all OK. It is all part of the process, part of the magic...