Sunday Reflection: Feeling Blah?
Allow yourself to surrender to what your body is asking. Plus, highlights from my weekend and your weekly empowerment prompts!
Happy Sunday! In today’s post, I share a journal prompt designed to help us establish new beliefs that serve our highest good and break us out of patterns that do not serve us. I will also share a reflection or a realization that you might resonate with, intended to inspire and empower!
This Sunday’s reflection is a rather longer one. I hope you enjoy it!
Today’s Journal Prompt
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My Body Wanted Rest
We went on a road trip for a mini family getaway this weekend, but before we headed out, I could feel it coming on.
The stuffy nose, slight sore throat, cloudy head, and fogginess.
“I can’t be getting sick”, I thought. “Not now. I really want to enjoy this time with my family.”
But I knew that I brought this on myself. I remember feeling by Tuesday morning like the week was exhausting. We had been working nonstop, I had been helping the kids prepare for a final project and presentation at school, I had looming deadlines that were stressing me out, and I let the busyness from the previous week bleed into this one.
I don’t even think I took time for yoga or weightlifting last week, which is something I strive to make a daily practice.
I did, however, make sure that I meditated and journaled daily. These are non-negotiables.
Even in my journaling and meditation, I received the intuitive guidance that I somehow needed to stop stressing and do less.
I would try to rationalize with myself, even in meditation, as to why I couldn’t stop or slow down.
One way or another though, my Higher Self and Inner Child were working together to ensure I slowed down so I could actually get the message.
The Message from My Higher Self
I was planning on taking my laptop with me on the family trip. So I could work whenever we had downtime back at the hotel.
I knew I would be working against myself, but I was planning on pushing through and doing it anyway.
But suddenly, I felt illness coming on, and I knew this was my cue to listen.
‘Simply be with your family and enjoy them, Stephanie”, was the message I heard.
“You have nothing to do but be in the moment with them.”
I knew at that moment that if I took my laptop, I would be bedridden for the trip. Just having my laptop there would send all kinds of stress signals through my body.
So I left my laptop at home, popped some vitamin C, made tea, went to bed early, woke up early, and headed out with my beautiful family without a worry about what else needed to get done.
My Higher Self was directing my attention to my inner child’s requests for rest and play.
Quality Time Was The Remedy
The sun, the fresh air, and my family were the remedy.
My body wanted me to rest and recollect.
My inner child wanted unstructured playtime.
When we resist our intuitive guidance, then sooner or later, the guidance will typically come in the form of a physical symptom or unwanted circumstance so that we can actually get the memo.
Eventually, stress catches up and results in what we typically call burnout. If we keep treating ourselves this way, we cause ourselves to self-destruct. Did you know that in cancer patients, the one common factor among a majority, if not all cases is high levels of, or chronic stress?
When we’re burnt out, we become susceptible to illness, as our immune system becomes suppressed since our body is working so hard trying to regulate itself.
Notice the signs before you become ill. You may think they aren’t there, but they are. We usually don’t notice them until hindsight, but if it’s happened to you before, this is your reminder to become more aware this time around.
An Invitation to Connect With Your Inner Child
No one likes to be sick. But I have learned to really embrace the invitation when I do get sick with a cold or flu. I ask myself now: “What do I need?”
In this case, it was quality time with my family.
It’s also an invitation to slow down. Be with yourself. Take care of yourself. Be that nurturing parent to yourself. Wrap yourself up in a blanket, and cozy up with a book and a cup of tea. As much as I hate being sick - there are some things I appreciate about it! Especially being a mom. It’s time for ME to be taken care of.
We often move through life with this “work hard, grind daily” mentality. We are often hardest on ourselves when things need to get done. We make up all kinds of excuses for why we can’t give ourselves the loving attention that we need on a deeper, more spiritual level.
But when we connect with ourselves on that deeper, more spiritual level…
the clarity arrives.
We’re all grown-ups with little inner children inside of us that need tender loving care.
Think about what you would have needed when you felt sick when you were a child who was growing and learning at such a rapid rate.
You would never tell your child when they are sick, that they had to clean their room, do the dishes, go to school, do their homework, and go to soccer practice anyway, would you?
No - you would take care of them. Give them a warm blanket, a hug a cup of tea, and endless amounts of love. When you were a child, you wanted that love and care. You needed it.
So why do we do it to ourselves as adults? You’re still growing and learning.
We need to be the parents to our little inner children too, especially now.
Instead of resisting the cues your body gives you, listen. Give yourself the loving attention that it’s asking you for.
Embracing the Invitation
At that moment when I felt the illness come on, I realized that it was okay, and it was perfectly safe to let my worries go and be present. I was so focused on what needed to get done in the future, that my energy was scattered all over the place. Everywhere except exactly where I needed to be.
I accepted that I may be sick during our family vacation, and I took the invitation to simply be with myself, take care of myself, and enjoy my family.
The trip was amazing!
I felt a little bit of a cold, but it was manageable because I didn’t make anything else a priority except being present.
And since I didn’t RESIST it, I overcame it very quickly. I was back to full health after the necessary R&R that my body was forcing me to take.
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Hey Stephanie, this is a great post and I love this perspective! At the end of the day, we all have that inner child in us that needs that tender love and care. It’s easy with our adult minds to want to be in a million places at once and avoid listening to our bodies. But I’ve noticed that the more I listen to my body, the better I feel and the faster I heal. Thank you so much for sharing this and I’m so glad you enjoyed your family vacation! Keep up the great work! :)