Honestly, any health benefits that I achieve right now will be incidental rather than intentional. I was doing okay until I hurt my knee. The pain kept me from walking. So, exercise was scratched off my list. Then I was too tired one night to add any thoughts to my journal. So, my evening journaling got more and more lax. Then, one day I woke up too late to do my morning meditation. So now my meditation has become haphazard. If I don't stick to a structured routine, I lose my discipline. I convince myself that it will be okay "this one time." The truth is I'm just lying to myself. I know better. I know I need to take concrete steps every day toward my physical, emotional and spiritual health.
My knee is feeling better enough so that I can take a water aerobics class so today I will go sign up for the class at Dekalb Medical. Here are my other public commitments for this day:
1. Watch my portion sizes. Those extra bites count!
2. Journal.
3. Meditate 15 minutes.
4. Tell the truth.
What about you? Are you living a life where your physical, emotional and spiritual health is intentional rather than incidental?
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ReplyDeleteI have been like Lillie and have procrastinated the last few days in writing down what I eat each day. I did it tonight. I planned to go to water aerobics yesterday, but unlike the coffee philosophy I allowed events to grab a hold of my emotions and stop me from going. The bright side is after doing the laxative thing this weekend, I have been committed to eating right this week. I also walked up two flights of steps yesterday. Yea, me. I read this week that we should name one thing we did well each day. So today I drank a half gallon of water. Yea me!
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