Perspectives of the Heart - Part Two
As I continue from last week’s blog in which I shared observations of healing from the outer perspective and what some of the inner changes are occurring for my own heart health. Sometimes we are more aware of numbers based on our immediate experiences.
With both my grandfathers, two uncles, my dad, and a family friend having heart-related experiences, our family was in the early game of tracking cholesterol results and questioning the whys of it all. As well as attempting to understand the magical solution and getting to the point that there isn’t one answer that fits all or some, it is doing the soul and personal homework to learn what it is for your body.
I addressed personal nutrition modifications, behavior, and timing shifts as well as feeling into our own emotions in part one last week.
In addition, I have researched over the last eight years to understand what is doable on an energy level regarding my business travel and number of visits, what works, and that which doesn’t. I reduced the number of visits per day and those included with overnights as I learned it must be sustainable and healthy for me especially when doing many days in a row.
What this looks like is anything beyond 14-16 hours with travel for days with overnights or over 5 to 6 individual visits plus travel time are not beneficial to energy sustainability for me. Part of this is learning what my body needs for sleep requirements and rest or recovery time wherever I am. This can change based on the environment, beings to be watched, and the situations at hand. It is also looking at the effects of compassion fatigue which shows up in my book although I did not always know that was a thing.
The one I have been working diligently on is finding ways to bring in healthier movement for my body during the summer months either before sunrise when my schedule permits or finding the online walking fit videos for walking inside, stretching or doing something else. It must bring me joy for my improved health routines.
Discovering the right cocktail of ingredients that works for me is integral and only time will tell if I have combined the right elements for my body, heart, and soul. What I do know is that keeping the circulation moving for my body, my heart, my life, and my business is important.
We each have a body and a heart. Your chemistry, your magic cocktail is unique to you. We think that by doing things others are doing will help us - yet it is listening to the story of our own heart and body along with what he or she requires that is the most important factor.
Only we ourselves know what makes us happy or sad, what adds to our stress or decreases it, what sends us into an emotional rage or calms us and therefore it us only us looking and feeling into what we are experiencing from within and the peripheral view that will help us reach what health means to us.