Everytime my phone is down, I rush to an outlet and have it recharged. I cannot let my phone get empty as it might imperil its battery life.
I am like my phone. My body, mind and spirit needs recharging and resetting for me to function well and to be more productive in life.
When I was a kid, I caught myself in a daydream of becoming an adult. I wanted to grow up fast. Autonomy is such an attractive word for me. Now I realized that adult life is not an easy go lucky, stress free, and pure fun feat. Adulting means responsibilities you carry on you shoulders as long as you live. And because of these keeping balance is an everyday struggle.
Like a see-saw, you need something that balances the weight on your shoulders and this is the importance of recharging oneself.
My ultimate life charger is nature. It is my outlet to regain myself. When negativities overcome me, I immerse my self with nature. All the positive things that comes with it neutralizes the negativities within me and that is when I regain balance. That is the power of healing with nature.
When my eyes get tired, I look around for the greeneries. It will relax my eyes and help me see new perspective.
When my body is getting heavier with stress, I walk with nature while appreciating its beauty. Beauty that I often neglect before like the little wild flowers, the persistent weeds, the lush green trees, or the grazing cows.
When my mind is entangled with overthinking to an extent of anxiety and voices in my shout their way to me, I calm myself by listening to the raindrops that falls on my rooftop or take myself to the beach and listen to the sound of the waves as it consequently touches the shore. It calms my mind.
When my spirit is dampen with problems and worries, I search for the sun. I bathe in the morning sun to feel its warmth penetrate to my cold spirit. I watch the sunset to remind me that letting go of the thing that keeps pulling me down is essential for a new and lighter tomorrow.
I find solace being alone in a quiet place, away from the noise of work life. My workmates would often ask me to have my lunch with them and they wonder why I would go home at lunch break. I just bike myself home since it's just a few meters away. And I would often answer them that I enjoy having lunch at home alone. It's the only time in a day that I get to enjoy a quiet time alone for myself while my children are with their care taker or nanny. It's the time that I get to process my emotions and thoughts while savouring the goodness of my food on the table. The quietness clears my mind of negative thoughts so I could have more space for positive thoughts. It refuels my body and mind with energy to go on another hours at work.
I am not vocally expressive in my thoughts or ideas. Oftentimes they remain suppressed within me because I feel like they don't matter in this world full of brilliant people. I often find my voice unheard of because it's too soft to be heard among the loud crowd of great minds. Writing is how I express myself. It gives me that safety net from self doubt. It doesn't matter to me if nobody reads, it is better than not able to let these all out.
You will find me being active in this platform blogging and commenting and sharing my experiences and a little of life lessons because that's the way I let go of these words, ideas and thoughts that are suppressed within me. Writing gives me a sense of purpose.
How do you reset yourself? How do you regain balance?
For me , I have to keep my life balanced. Live, reset and repeat the process because finding balance is the way for me to keep on moving forward.
