Smack! Wake up!
Posted on | September 18, 2009 | 3 Comments
Intentions — good thoughts and potentialities that remain inert until action is applied.
I had so many ‘good intentions’ about getting fitter, staying fitter, eating better, keeping on track with my pilates work-out — you know the drill. And I honestly felt a tiny bit virtuous when I began exercising (inconsistently!) at the beginning of the year.
“Yes,” I waffled on to my friends as I ate mindlessly, scooped down platters of rich cheese, and happily sipped way more than the recommended two glasses of red wine, “This is really the year that I’m going to get fit again so that I have a healthy aging strategy.”
Who was I kidding? Myself — that’s for certain!
As frightening as last week’s race to the hospital was and the subsequent 5 days and 4 nights in 3-North at the Ballarat Base Hospital, it was when I was released and came home that I suddenly felt like a bucket of ice-cold water had been poured over my head. As I have pottered around the house this week in my pajamas and slippers feeling distinctly bruised and battered, I found myself literally shaking all over one night and quite tearful. The kidney stones and surgical procedure WERE frightening and painful — but what if it had been something more grim — like cancer or a heart problem?
Manifesting change is something that I have done (on and off!) all of my adult life — so I actually DO know how to implement those changes. But when my attention turned ever so sharply this week back to initiating positive changes in my life, the floodgates opened and the most amazing emails and connections began to flood into my inbox. My unconscious obviously asked for help without consulting me about it because I honestly have no idea WHY these sites and people were suddenly in my life and on my computer screen!
From links to sites that were about health and nutrition to sites that were about material and spiritual manifestation, the floodgates that had been held shut by my own state of denial simply burst open and help, information, and assistance came pouring towards me.
Now it is up to me — and I plan to be QUITE honest and update my readers with my progress along the way. As my handsome husband said on a similar topic this week, “I’m too far into that room now to go back.”
Tags: challenge > diet > fitness > fitness strategy > health crisis > health scare > hospital > kidney stones > lifestyle > manifestation > mindless eating > nutrition > poor nutrition
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September 21st, 2009 @ 2:15 PM
Everything happens for a reason my friend x
September 21st, 2009 @ 3:02 PM
Yes it does, although it certainly could have been a gentler NUDGE from the Universe — not an outright WHACK! (grin!)
Guess some of us are too stubborn to notice unless the change is noticeable and dramatic.
September 24th, 2009 @ 9:34 AM
I need to join you. I started by giving up smoking in May but although my lungs are good the rest of me just wants to sleep and eat!