Love Letter for a Monday - My Overcrowded Mind and Ways Forward.

My thoughts (good and not so good) have been running away on me over the last week or so.

I decided yesterday to only concentrate on the next hour or just this day.

When life speeds up on me, my mind becomes so overcrowded. Things become blurry and my sense of 'doing' becomes less functional. I get stuck in my head.

 This is when I 'should' come back to my breathing and sit still for a while, or I put my legs up the wall and reset my nervous system because i know that helps. But sometimes when we are in, we forget. It's only on reflection that we see what we 'could have' or 'should have' done. Yesterday I did do a few things that certainly helped.  Simple but effective.

I wanted to share and be honest about the hard 'stuff' because I know there is a lot going on for most of us. To be honest I feel like we absolutely run away from sharing, instead we go underground. This is something I'm working on!

But maybe we need to share this 'stuff' with a trusted friend. When we air how we truly feel, it validates it and when spoken out loud It's almost like the air lightens it alittle.

When this overcrowding comes in, I think it's important to come back to what's important to us and what isn't.

Be clear where we wish to put our energy.  Because this energy is limited.

Be gentle on ourselves.

The small things I did yesterday that helped me……..

* Having a cold shower, imaging the unhelpful thoughts flowing down the plug hole.

 * Drinking water with grated ginger in it.

* Going to my place of worship.

* Visiting a friend and taking them a bunch of     flowers from our garden.

* Laughing and chatting with my family.

* Going to bed early.

* Eating well.

* Writing lists of things I needed to tick off.

 Sometimes these things come easily and other times forced but I am very proactive when my mind becomes overcrowded.

I just try to keep pulling my tools out of my 'life backpack' until I find one that helps.

This life of ours is a journey of lots of lessons.

We are all learning to navigate it in the best way we know how.

I feel in the end that we just need to make it worthwhile. We need to make it mean something to us.

We need to give our gifts, our time, our kind words and our generosity.  It's so important not to focus solely on ourselves but to get out of our own heads and look beyond. It's only then that we gain perspective on our thoughts and situations.

All my love dear ones for today and each day we are blest to hold.

Love Steph xxxx