Allotted Sitting and Walking Times!
May 19, 2024I have just had some more spine surgery. It was sudden but expected. There are strict instructions about the recovery period. For instance, for the first while sitting for twenty minutes is suggested, with two walks a day for first five, and then ten minutes. Using my fingers for anything is carefully thought through, to allow the nerves, that have only just been released, that operate my hands, to keep mending.
Monitoring the amount of time you can walk or sit is sobering, I can tell you on the one hand, and on the other, is the next sacred gift of decision making.
I wanted to share what has come up for me in this next gift of more time in this life. I share it in the hope (which is very much associated with our Spring Season) that my own 'ponderings' will prompt some of your own?!
- What is my presence with every step I take? A very dear friend would say, that if we were not fully conscious of our footprints we left then we were not going to be fully engaged with all the possibilities that life had for us.
- Who or what am I actually living for? That sounds probably like a heavy question just after a successful 42nd procedure, but it is so humbling that inevitably these type of thoughts do surface. How can we engage more fully in our next footprints if we don't take a short while to mull over the answers to that important question. Again this same friend used to say that if we do not realise how much our footprint affects everyone around us then we live a life of illusion!
- What illusion has this last procedure broken up for me - however, also what next realities do I want to consciously choose!? For example it's not going to be wise for me to go whizzing down black runs like my last ski trip any more! What fun and adventure though can I create next and instead?
- I always redo my will just before a procedure, as I am always needing and choosing to adapt, as wisely as I can, to the diseases I was born with. Taking care of my affairs as much as is necessary and taking, what I call radical responsibility, has me still here! I am incredibly grateful, shaken and a little stirred but absolutely still here.
So what is your foot step doing for you and around you?
What are you actually living for and what is the next adventure that you are on?
What denial (illusion) are you hiding behind?
Do you think you are powerless to change the one thing on the outside that is still bothering and getting to you? I have to remind myself at these recovery times that I am not these diseases or even the endless need for medical interventions. I have NO excuse for hiding away from what I can do next! Which right now is recover and rest ALOT!!!
Are you ready to expand a bit more and take far more responsibility for your precious life?
What are YOUR allotted sitting and walking times that directly relate to your choices of YOUR footsteps in the Sand?!
Ps I will be taking a month off and look forward to getting back to work soon - renewed and refreshed with even greater clarity of the steps I want to next take. Please take care of yourself - there is only one of YOU.
Loads of love and joy coming from me Catherine
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