RE: Sixty Day "Guilt Free Me Time" Challenge Day 1
So happy to hear you are making time for yourself.
I survived raising and unschooling my three sons by running off alone to the woods to an off-grid cabin two to three times a year to recenter...foreshadowing of the future!
Now that I am living off the grid in the woods, I don't wish to runoff, instead, I am looking for new ways to get re-centered.
I made this leap about three weeks ago while chatting with @freedompoint and @freedomtowrite in my drive. I decided instead of running from the stresses I was just going to work on removing them and changing my behavior around them... Self-guilt is at the top of the list... I'm going to Love it away and celebrate here.
I dusted a book of my shelves called "Culture and Horticulture" by Wolf D Storl. A classic philosophical book about biodynamic and organic farming.
Still a Geek first!!!
Removing the stress and changing the behavior sounds like great advice! I don't know why we as a society hang on to stress like a life line when it's so draining emotionally and physically. When I was much younger, I used to live for drama. Even though I have removed so much drama from my life sometimes I find myself getting hung up on little things. Old habits die hard, I guess.
That book sounds fantastic! -Aimee
Isn't it crazy how people live on stress, almost like they feed on it? But you are right, sometimes I make mountains out of mole hills, and it doesn't make any sense!
People definitely feed off of stress. I think it makes some people feel important, like it's not all for nothing. Feeling like we are a small fish in a big sea is easy with the way the world has become and having a sense of purpose gives people drive. We just need a societal shift and I think a lot of that goes back to people putting their well being first and foremost. -Aimee
I have never thought about it that way before! I think you're right that it makes people feel like they're important. Whrn I was little, I would play "office" and pretty much I wpuld pretend to type, shuffle around stacks of paper and pretend I had people demanding things of me. I loved it because it made me feel essential.
Perhaps that's why certain people gravitate towards drama. It gives them a place inside of something that feels big.
This is so exciting! I want to know more, especially how you will love it away...I'd like to love things away as well!
I feel that Love is the most effective tool in my kit, followed by compassion...just time to use them on myself.
Stress itself is a good thing...its how we react to it that gives it a bad wrap.
Stress informs us something new needs to be implemented.
Yes, I see! I think you are right.