Wellbeing – Part 1

Perhaps the most important thing you can do for yourself is to maintain your wellbeing. When you feel physically well and fit, you have as many choices as to how you want to live your life as you can possibly imagine. When your mind and emotions are healthy, relatively neutral and or happy, life is good. Your find that your relationships with your friends are satisfying and close. And those with your family are mostly pretty easy, (except when they annoy you from time to time).

Then life happens, and something unexpected comes along and disturbs your inner equilibrium. Maybe you get into a car accident, and you are inside your car as it spins around in a circle several times before it stops. You might have whiplash and maybe even black eyes from when the air bag deployed. Your car is not totaled, so now it has to go in for repair. This is not fun, not fun at all. So now you’re off to the hospital in an ambulance to get checked out in the ER while your car is being towed to the autobody shop. You’re now probably feeling pretty upset and out of balance. Let’s look a little deeper into what has happened inside of you as a result of this hypothetical accident. Mentally, being in some level of shock is pretty standard. Your emotions can be all over the place from the adrenal rush that is coursing through your blood stream. Your heart is going a mile a minute and your body is tense and bruised from the impact. Spiritually, you are feeling (being polite here) what the heck? In only the instant it took for that car to crash into yours, you are out of balance with yourself and, consequently, with everyone and everything around you. The world is not as rosey as it was just a moment before that car came out of nowhere and spun your car out of your control. What the “heck”, indeed!

“Stuff” happens…to everyone in large and small ways, on some days not so much and on other days way too much. We are all constantly trying to maintain our equilibium and sense of wellbeing, and then, something happens to knock us off center yet again. I am sorry to say that this is pretty much the norm for the way life can be. No one gets a ride through life misfortune-free. We all have to learn to deal with these less-than-ideal moments in life, and the sooner we do the happier and more balanced we can be. There are a couple ways to cope with life when things get rough and it feels like that roller coaster ride in the old movie, Parenthood, with Steve Martin and Mary Steenburgen. (Worth watching even if you aren’t a parent. It really relates to all of humanity in all of Life’s messy glory.) Let’s look at some things that you can do to support yourself before, during, and after these chaotic moments happen, despite your best efforts to avoid them.

Having a self-care routine in place that is your wellbeing “set point“ which you are able to consistently return to is vital. What are you already doing to care for yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually? Seriously, pause for a moment while you are reading this and take a nonjudgmental inventory of how you are taking care of yourself. What do you do to maintain a good mental attitude about yourself and your life? What and who feeds your heart with positive emotions when times are good? What about your body – what are you doing to nourish it with food and drink and to maintain its health, strength, vitality, and flexibility?  And your spirituality, is the natural world where you find a spiritual connection to yourself and to life all around you? Or are you a meditator and are able to center yourself, in your Self, daily? Do you have a religion that feeds your soul or are you a mystic that feels and sees the divine in all things? Or maybe you are spiritually a little bit of all these things rolled into one? Remember, there are no wrong answers or judgements attached to any of these questions. Just take a neutral inventory of where you are at with regard the to above four questions and make a mental or smart phone note of them. This inventory is a form of self-awareness that people rarely get a chance to even think about, but that you truly deserve to take as often as you need to. It is one way that you show love to yourself by knowing how you feel and figuring out what you may need to feel even better. So, when we can feel where we are, just ourselves and no one else, we have an idea what our core being feels like when we are relaxed and feeling pretty good. Please understand that your center of wellbeing will grow and change over a lifetime. But as long as you are in touch with your Self, it is always your true North on the compass deep inside of your heart.

So, for the next week, if you feel like following along and making use of this blog for growing your self-awareness and sense of wellbeing, just note what you are doing that makes your mind, heart, body, and soul feel nourished and more whole. What makes you feel good about you, empowers you and makes your heart sing?  These are the things that you will always come home to inside of yourself and are well worth noting down for when times are chaotic and hard.

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Stay tuned for part two!

Namaste,

Jean