Are you connected to your rhythm?
Welcome to this week’s blog.
May is known as Mental Health Month, as we move into May I wonder how often you take time to assess and nurture your own mental health? Often I find it is something people think they will do when life slows down. Because it is not easily seen by others they often delay looking into it. But how long do we wait, and what detrimental things are happening to your health whilst you are waiting?
I’d like to reflect on some simple yet powerful ways that might help you begin to nurture your health better.
How is the change of seasons going for you? For those of you here in the southern hemisphere we are well and truly into Autumn now with Winter fast approaching.
Within the Vedic philosophies of which I am dual-trained, Autumn is a time of transition. We begin to slow from the hectic fast pace of Summer/Christmas/NewYear and begin to gain momentum and settle in the routine of the kids back at school, the year at work and the flow of the middle of the calendar year. Daylight savings ends and nature is beginning to reflect to us at a slower pace (well that is if we are noticing!).
As a Vedic Practitioner, one of the main things I see in the community and around the world is a fast paced, out-of-sync-with-nature lifestyle. We have technology that keeps stimulating our brains until late at night, mobile phones which keep us constantly checking social media and creating an expected quick response to everything including our nervous systems. This can greatly affect our ability to relax and gain a restful sleep.
Yet, nature, as she has done for literally thousands and thousands of years, reflects to us daily how to live an abundant, healthy life. Understanding that impermanence, change, seasons, day and night, creation and evolution are all part of a natural existence. Nature encourages when to be active when the sun is high in the day and when to slow when it is dark and it is night.
I reflect that once you become aware of something you are empowered to make a choice.
If you feel you would like to slow your life down, look to nature, watch how the days are growing shorter and the leaves are starting to change. A beautiful time of transitioning to a slower, more nourishing pace of winter.
Why not? Isn’t it your life, your choices to choose whether it is fast or slow?
We often think we need to wait until a better time to create the change we long for; that a slower more nourishing paced life is for someone else to achieve or around the corner once we get a few more boxes ticked.
Yet doesn’t change occur because you take a proactive step towards it? Isn’t your mental, emotional and physical health important enough to place first?
I hope the week ahead nourishes you deeply because of the choices you choose to make.
Take care,
Alli
xx