Balance…not a goal for the faint of heart. Also not a goal lacking for change.
How do you incorporate new routines and goals into a life that is just now leaning in to a rhythm? I have the soul of a wanderer but the life of a settler. Overcoming auto immunity seems best supported by the settler. The predictable relieves stress right? Right. Except for when it doesn’t.
My dream is to wander while always tethered to my roots of home. Home has always been fluid to me. It was where I was at the time. And today, although I live long where I land I rent every moment here. My haven is not mine. And wanderlust is setting in. So knowing I’m physically rooted here in my rented home. What do I do? What do I do that is shift enough to be change, but still keeps with my vision for stability towards healing?
Enter creative expression. Vision board above my door…always within my sightline. It’s weekday yoga practice to give expression to expressionless work days. It’s a new book. It’s writing. It’s allowing deeper awareness of what my body reacts to so I can either experience it more often or adjust it for better well being. Little changes.
But I’ve also changed up a little something in order to gain stability. Alkalinity testing.
Dis-ease cannot survive in an alkalized environment. So test strips in hand I’m monitoring my bodies response to food variety, sleep (quality or not), hunger, stressful days (which might be a standard ‘ol day but one that I’ve acclimated to as the norm), lighting….I’m sensitive to EMF and fluorescent lighting kicked my butt last week. I’ve discovered how quickly my body will alkaline and how quickly it will go acidic again. Instability…. the villain of settler. The friend of dis-ease.
Somehow I am all too familiar with stability and it’s alter ego….the acidic and the alkalized. I will find my footing between. I have my sights on the vision my dreams are made of. Health, healing, happiness.
Inner Calm 