Listen...

Listen to your body. It talks to you all the time. You just have to listen--and pay attention. It will tell you when you are hungry, thirsty, tired, need to stretch.... Listen to it! Sometimes we get so caught up in our day to day lives that we don't pay attention to the signals we are getting. You need to eat (more than one time a day), you need to hydrate, you need sleep and you need down time. If you don't take care of your body, you are wasting one of God's greatest gifts--YOU. You have to take care of yourself so you can take care of everything else--your job, your children, your friends, your life.


Paying attention to your body is important, but paying attention to your soul is important too. You need time for nourishing your soul--read, write, paint, listen to music, take a walk with the dog, sit in nature and enjoy what you see. Some people feel that they need to "do" something all the time. It is necessary to NOT do something sometimes. The dishes can wait, the grass will still be there tomorrow, the laundry will too. Take a breath, take a walk, take a nap. Take care of you...