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

[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.