Regenerative Sleep and Recoup

Recently I was doing a whole lot of writing and working, and essentially running on empty for a bit. I was suffering some consequences due to that so I decided it would be a good idea to take several days of a break off. It felt good to regenerate my mind and get some sleep!

I love writing and being on Hive but at the same time, just like working and taking a few days off, we need to have time off chain to do other things and especially refocus and regenerate in whatever ways we can. I decided to focus mainly on engagement and getting caught up with the Rant community posts that I was neglecting but most importantly go to bed by 9 or 930pm every night for a few nights!

There is a fine line when it comes to being productive and mildly tired and just being exhausted lol. I was hitting the exhaustion phase and knew that I had to take a step back! I'm glad that I also didn't get sick at the same time, when I've been that tired in the past, I would unfortunately fall sick but we got so much sickness this time around, I am glad that I seemed to have fended it off!

Being able to identify the signs of exhaustion are also important because sometimes we ignore them or take additional things to suppress it and that causes a host of other issues. We've been so conditioned to ignore our bodies these days, and it's got all kinds of mechanisms to tell us important things about our health and mental state. We are conditioned to take a pill to do X Y or Z in order to turn these things in our body off which is unfortunate! Yes we should be able to overcome some of these physical limitations when appropriate but there are too often times when we do it reflexively instead of letting our body rest and recover.

I'm certainly guilty of not letting my body rest and recover, as everyone else is certainly capable of confirming at some point in their adult lives. I think there is certainly a limitation to that though - when it comes to hobbies, you have to find a balance between doing it and overdoing it. Hive is certainly hobby, even though writing is really important for me at the end of the day it is a hobby and you have to treat most hobbies the same. Take breaks from them when you're getting over exerted!

I am at fault though LOL during the few days that I took off, the first day I drank a beer and that fucked up my sleep pretty good. That set me down a path for a few days of not getting enough sleep, because I was playing catch up. I have unfortunately come to the determination that I can't drink alcohol the way I used to. It's challenging but at the same time, it is what it is. I would rather sacrifice drinking some alcohol and getting an hour or two of relaxation or enjoyment to having a shitty night sleep and plenty of things to do the next day that I can't easily get out of, my son and his energy being the primary driver there lol.

I'm glad that I prepared myself for the few days of rest by just getting some posts scheduled and published - I have some catching up to do but thankfully during that bit of a break, I was writing down various topics to get writing on so that was a benefit! I guess I wasn't totally removed from it all haha but with things that you enjoy, it's difficult to completely unwind these days!