breath happens

[keryx]

I listened to a guided meditation this morning that told me "your breath happens without any help from you". I'd been having a conversation with myself about all of these Things I Have to DO, that can't go on without me.

Ha! Many - maybe all - of those things can also happen without any help from me. What in your life is like breathing? What could be?

Comments

[goodgothgirl.livejournal.com]

Your message about breathing happens without any help is the one I talk about at work every day. :)

You take 25,000 breaths each day, and we do take them for granted.

As for your question ... I'm not sure, mostly because the majority of stuff in my life is what I've volunteered for. I opted to not let these things happen without me. The stuff that I didn't volunteer for includes house cleaning, errands, etc., which I try to share. But your question has me thinking.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

I'm not assuming that anyone would completely check out of the world, simply that we don't need to think about controlling things - they will happen, and our presence in them will happen, without conscious control or worry. Does that make sense?

[firecat]

Maybe related: I'm trying to apply the concept of intuitive eating to exercise.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

Yes! This is very much the feeling I get when I move the way I need to at any given time - it's thought-less.

How is intuitive exercise working for you? What is it like?

[firecat]

Right now it's mainly about trusting that I will exercise when I feel like it, rather than thinking of exercise as something that I have to make myself do.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

How is it different? How does it feel?

[firecat]

I used to exercise more or less naturally, without feeling like I was forcing myself. But then I got into a state for years where every kind of exercise hurt or exercising tired me out for days afterward. But exercise (short for: moving my body) is really important for managing my diabetes. So it got to where I was beating myself up a lot about it.

Now rather than beat myself up I wait until I feel like exercising. And I have noticed that I do feel like it on a regular basis (if not "vigorously every day for 90 minutes," which the gummint says that as a fatty I need), it's not something I Have To Make Myself Do.

Feeling like exercising feels like a small restlessness combined with a small brain fog.

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

LACTATING

[belladonnalin.livejournal.com]

Thank you. This was very very well-timed for me, something I needed to think about.