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15 things to help you physically

15 things to help you in this pandemic

It’s the beginning of a new year, yet we’re still living with what feels like a never-ending pandemic. Here are 15 reminders that physically can help you in challenging times like these…

To:
  1. orgasm
  2. breathe with your stomach
  3. move & sweat
  4. feel relaxed (lowered shoulders, calm breath and no tension in your face f.ex.)
  5. physically and emotionally be close to people you love
  6. touch and be touched
  7. embrace scents and flavors you love
  8. increase your HR
  9. lower your HR
  10. get enough deep sleep
  11. be comfortable in your own skin (to comfortably walk around naked, f.ex)
  12. not have injuries (and if you do, take care of them)
  13. have a sense of direction in your body
  14. tune in
  15. check out

I could say “so just do yoga, have sex, do your training, eat, sleep, breathe, be close to/with people you love and you’re good” – but we all need different things in this life. So I would say try to make sure your glass is filled up with your needs, and the rest will not be up to us.

Unsure what your basic needs are? Maybe this can be a good time to dig a bit deeper into who you are and what you need.

And as simple as all this sounds, we all struggle. That’s ok. Mental health issues are very real and so is depression. But hopefully these pointers can help you to give yourself a fighting chance.

Mindset & attitude is everything

Do we have a choice

Lately I’ve been thinking about choices and how we all have them. Yes? No?

When facing a crossroad in life – yes, there’s a choice to take. And it’s yours. Sometimes we might say “but I didn’t have a choice“… but I often find that we do.

Blame it on the people, places, parents, experiences, friends, traumas, timing… but in the end – it’s just you. Isn’t it? When no one is around – who do you ask? You, making your own truths. Even when they’re not – they’re your truths – which becomes true, to you. That’s why I believe we need to stop blaming and instead see the fact that there’s an explanation to most things.

For example, there’s a reason to why a certain person is feeling a certain way.. There’s an explanation to why a child growing up with abuse might end up hitting or taking hits, or none of the two… The same way there’s an explanation to why you always go for the easy choice. There’s a reason why we think and feel and act the way we do. Isn’t that quite comforting? And just knowing this, we gain control. We, in the front seat, with both hands on the wheel, are in charge of our own lives, choices and truths. Not cancer, not death, not heartbreak, not time – but us, our actions, our reactions – our voice, our choice. If we choose to.

In many many situations we excuse ourselves and lean back. We let someone else take the wheel. I know I have. But in many situations, that’s just undermining ourselves. Not giving ourselves enough credit. Because making a choice doesn’t always mean making a good or a right one – but it is still making one. Even when you’re scared and confused, or certain and strong.

Isn’t it amazing how we can not control a lot of things in life – but can control our own choices?

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What do you think? Can you find a situation where you felt like you “didn’t have a choice”? What are your choices today and tomorrow?