The Month of One {wellness & movement}

For this month’s series of posts, I am focusing upon baby steps to {a balanced} life: more ease — less stressing about what is not being completed. Allowing ourselves the opportunity to focus upon one element or aspect of our dailies in order to assign it as a piece to the puzzle of wholeness. Of creating a visual for what we “see” but that which feels daunting at times to achieve.

ex·er·cise/ˈeksərˌsīz/

Noun:

Activity requiring physical effort, carried out especially to sustain or improve health and fitness.

Verb:

Use or apply (a faculty, right, or process).

We accomplish what is in our heart by exercising three steps:

decide

declare

doing

Baby-step-progress tends to annoy us because we aspire to change in one day what took days {months, years} to become what it is today.

When we resist slow and steady progress we are absolutely denying ourselves even the option of change. Because … change takes as long as it takes, Braveheart. And there is no “I’m behind” with change.

Change is transitional.

tran·si·tion/tranˈziSHən/

Noun:

The process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another. And it takes as long as it takes.
Baby steps from one place of mind, will and emotion to another; a better place of mind, will and emotion.

Verb:

Undergo or cause to undergo a process or period of transition: “we were never behind; even when it felt like it”.

Synonyms:

passage – change – crossing – transit – baby steps with intention

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. ~Lord Chesterfield

That progressive process, and the varying time it requires, is especially true with regard to physical wellness and mobility, flexibility and the ability to cope with health challenges.

To maintain the holistic personal space in which I write, consult and create, I weave it within serendipitous micromovements of exercise {mind, body and spirit}.

ser·en·dip·i·ty/ˌserənˈdipitē/

Noun:

The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way: “a fortunate stroke of serendipity”.

Some days are better than others.

While there is a degree of planning {lists of options for beneficial activity and nutrition} and loosely scheduled intervals in which to accomplish this, I have conceded that it does depend more upon happy coincidences than orchestration.

And at long last, I finally consider being physically required to exercise on some level every single day in order to remain mobile to be a gift: unexpected, but delightful — and certainly of benefit.

Some days being better than others!

Exercise, in my definition, includes elements of sensory stimulation.

I recently started practicing yoga outside. It is so restorative to be outside, even in the extremes of Oklahoma weather … This week, the mornings have been cool and the moon full; there were a few raindrops one morning. The sensory benefits of bird songs and the bubbling of my water fountain and the rustling of leaves as the wind breezes through reduce the “noise” of pain {and the occasional longing to live without MS}.