Heeding Your Body’s Signals
January 12, 2012As I sit here at my desk, I can hear the whoosh of cars driving by on the main road outside my door. It’s been raining, so, the sound is louder, and it’s carrying better because it’s night time. I’m pretty tired, because I’ve been working hard on a project for work that has to be completed tomorrow and presented. But more than anything, I just feel brain dead.
I’m at that place where my head doesn’t want to think anymore, it doesn’t want to try to figure out the best way to do something or say something or look at something. It doesn’t want to consider what my food choices for tomorrow will be, much less what I’m going to wear to work.
Spacing out is about all it wants to do.
Yet, it seems to be processing a lot at night because the dreams I’m remembering are vivid, and filled with obscure things that don’t really seem related. Like this morning I remembered a dream about the executive director at my company searching for a restaurant that sold biscuits made from scratch, and then seconds later, it seemed, I’m dreaming about a letter from the first guy I loved. To my waking mind, those things are completely unrelated and unrelatable! But my unconscious mind firmly believes they are related as it processes through the night, filing and ranking and put my thoughts and experiences in a retrievable format; working away, all night.
Consciously, though, writing this post is a struggle – I’m trying to keep it nice and tight in terms of content, but my head keeps flitting off to la-la land as my eyes find the shiny lights outside my window and just stare, seeing the steady stream of headlights, but not really seeing.
Pushing myself to do more, be more, accomplish more sometimes takes its toll. Like tonight. It’s times like this that my body takes over and says, enough is enough. Close it up and say good night. So, my head gets fuzzy, and I’m easily distracted, and I just feel brain dead.
It’s important to listen when our bodies give us signals that they’ve had enough. So, having written this, and said that, I’m going to take my own advice and heed my body’s signals. I suggest you do the same when your time comes!
Cathy Lynn
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I’ve had some ‘just had enough’ feelings lately. I just feel like my brain is mush towards the end of the work day, and when I make mistakes, I feel embarassed and not very worthy of my job. I am frequently assured by my co-workers that everyone has these issues. I’m looking forward to the idea of 2012 being a year of a highly increased consciousness to help get our world out of the mess that we’ve gotten ourselves into.
Hey Ross – me, too. I’m hoping that there will be a shift in consciousness as well.
I tend to make mistakes when I get brain mushy as well. But, we can’t be perfect all the time!
Cathy Lynn