Inside your JEWEL inside as well as out. Our motto, our tag line, our live by….
First off lets
talk about JEWEL, what is a Jewel? Have you ever thought about where a Jewel comes from? It comes from rock…it’s been polished, squeezed, shaped, tossed, and finally after years of working on it, it becomes a beautiful Jewel, sparkling, bright, shiny, gorgeous, and in a sense some may say perfect. They come in all colors, shapes, forms…So aren’t we a Jewel too? We constantly have to nurture, shape, formed, squeezed, maybe even get crushed, to become sparkling! It’s constant, just as change is the only thing that is constant…we are in need of constanyly nurturing our being, our JEWEL to become who we want to be in this world.
Now…lets talk about nurturing ourselves from the inside. What can you think of in the last week that you have done for yourself to take care and nurture yourself inside out? don’t get me wrong we are all human, so we tend to like things that aren’t so good for us from time to time, but its when we go over board, or need a check in with ourselves to see what has tipped the scale onto the over load of unnecessitites. Our bodies have an unbelieveable way to take care of ourselves and will do what ever it can to help you get through a busy time, no sleep, a rough day…however if we don’t get the rest and nurture it needs to recover we end up going down a different road and tipping the stress overload button a little too much, until we start noticing things failing, or getting sick, or somehow now I can’t sleep at all?…or maybe you can’t stop eating sugar, drinking, crying…whatever the symptoms there is always a reason, however we forget…we forget that a while back when things got a little too much and we didn’t tend to our beautiful bodies, mind, and spirit, that thing tended to just keep going in a stressfull environment, and because our bodies love us so much they figure out a way to keep functioning until we say, “how did I get here?”
Being a massage therapist for over 15 years, I have to say I have heard it all, and all of it is absolutely true for that person. What I personally wish I could say is that “your shoulder didn’t just start hurting because you careied a big bag throught the airport, but your shoulder has alwasy been hurting, however you just haven’t noticed or dealt with it, so when we have a heavy bag, your should starts screaming at you and now here you are, finally wanting to take care of it….BUT…you want a “fix it” button for that shoulder, however now we are here….I can absolutely help you feel better and better, but its going to be a while becasue that should didn’t just hurt over night….so it will also take some time to completely feel better, but if we could have nipped it in the bud when it originally started to feel sore, achy, crunchy, painful, outof sorts, I feel you wouldn’t have ever had a issue with your bag in the airport. That was just the final straw for your shoulder. Its like getting a cold, lets attack this now with all the support of getting rid of this before it starts up! taking oregano, cold snap, echinachia, zinc, what ever you do, you do it well becuase we don’t want to get sick! however when its too late, we have to have it runs its course, or if real bad taking the dreaded antibotics, or loss of work and staying home, etc….So…my question, why do we let our bodies go? Do we think we aren’t worth it to spend so time getting a massage? This can go for any subject…I hear all the time, you need to fix my hair, my hair is a mess, its been months and I haven’t done a thing, its so dry, its has split ends…well, just wondering, but what causes us to go so long without a nurture day all the time! Where in the book of history lessons did we forget us!!!!
This is crucial, we, us, you are what keeps this world running, your family running, your bosy moving forward, and we, I, you want to be here in this beautiful earth for as long as we can to see all the amazing things that are happening all around us. Watch our families succeed, children grow up, friends laughing and having fun, businesses thriving, and careers booming…so lets have some fun in this world and take care of us first, because just like in the airplane, if we don’t put on the oxygen “thingy” first we can’t help anyone else out if we pass out!!
so take a big gulp, and find things that you can nurture yourself with on the inside this week!!!! and practice it.
*Eating real food, nothing that comes in a box
*Thinking positive thoughts and/or meditating, (even for 5 mins)
*Letting go of past baggage in our minds, living in the present
*Stop saying “because” through-out the day, its just an excuse, live real, authentically
*Sugar is the biggest recreational drug, so lets quit it!! say goodbye to the addiction
*Epson Salt bath anyone? maybe add a little baking soda, and apple cider vinegar for a fabulous detox
*saying NO to our addictions…drugs/alcohol/sugar/work/shopping/eating, etc…
*heres something extremely simple…….drink water!!!
Its the Fall, time of letting go, a change is happening even if we are on Maui and the weather doesn’t change that much, we are still feeling the essence of the world and the change that is happening all around, leaves are falling and dying, its getting colder, so our bodies are needing more heat, fall is a time to say goodbye, let things die off naturally and take some time to rejuvinate ourselves.
Nurture your JEWEL inside as well as out.
Next blog will talk about the “OUT” hope by then there will be some nurturing of your inside. Your worth it, believe me!!! believe yourself!!
