Slow down!

Hello guys,

I hope you are all well and enjoying the beauty of the fall. I know I have not posted for a while here or on my social media, but I had to slow down. 

I am a very energetic, hyperactive and always on the move person. Never stop! Stop? Sit down? Relax? Never really was in my vocabulary. To be honest, during the past years I have gotten better, but I am still addicted to stress. I couldn’t leave without it. Well, now I had no other chance, because life just actually did shut me down.

Two weeks ago I got a really bad cold. People who know me, also know that cold never stopped me from working and especially never forced me to stay in my bed…at least not longer than a day. I have spent five whole days in my bed, having tea, medicine and everything to get better. I literally couldn’t get out of my bed, I physically wasn’t able to do so.

And that made me think about the importance of slowing down, stopping, relaxing and listening to my body. 

I believe that your body and your soul are always telling you what to do and what is the best for you. I worked a lot, never stopped stressing, I had so many activities after work too, the blog, the pictures, the new projects which I have just started…well I got overwhelmed and my body physically stopped me and saved me from myself.

In my opinion a cold or any kind of illness has two parts:

a.) Physical. This is clear, your body is tired and needs to stop to recover.

b.) Emotional. It can be any kind of “negative” (or how I call “emotions that no longer serves you”) emotions.

I believe that we only will be better for good, if we start with the emotions part. We need to find out how we hurt ourselves, not always consciously, sometimes we do not even realize. Sometimes these are “small” things (at least no one even thinks about those that can affect us in a really bad way) such as guilt, sadness, judging, and negative self-talk. 

Have you ever caught yourself you made a mistake and you just said “oh, I am so stupid”…do you see my point? We don’t think it could hurt. Or what about when you see someone on the tube and you start “really, did she/he not have a mirror, what does she/he looks like”?…yes my friends, pure judgment. I could tell you a million other examples, but I think you got it.

We are always so busy in our everyday life…grab the kids from school, cook something for dinner, go to work, do some exercise, even we stressing ourselves when we try to relax…our mind is not relaxing even when we finally dedicated the time to do so…how many of you just sit down to watch a movie and in the meantime you thinking about that you need to go to grocery shopping the next day, make the presentation on time, need to visit the parents, etc. My special favorite, that’s what I do most of the time: schedule X amount of time to read, exercise, even with meditation and during my relaxing “me time”, I can’t relax, because I am constantly checking my clock, just to make sure I will not spend one extra minute on each “task”, because than the whole schedule will be screwed up. Yes… I know, it is so pathetic that I am stressing about my relaxing time. 

What I want to say here is that please listen to yourself. And now I see someone’s eyes are rolling and asking me the magic question: How? Well, that’s easy, just ask yourself frequently “What would make me happy?”. That’s it. And let it go. Don’t force the answer. Maybe today it will be a bunch of flowers or a cake…cool, do it. (Maximum tomorrow you will spend an extra half an hour on the gym🤷🏼) Go for a walk, call a friend, watch a movie, have a glass of wine…whatever makes you feel happy, but ask and listen!!!! Don’t wait until your body shuts you down…trust me it will do it sooner or later.

Fall is about to slow down and prepare for the winter. As nature transforms itself and starts to prepare, slowing down, we should do the same. During the summer we collected a lot of energy from the long days, from the experiences during the holidays, we spent so much time in the sun, we did it to be prepared for the colder months. As the days get shorter, everyday is getting darker, our body must be slowed, must be prepared.

I will try to share with you from my life and my preparation as much as I can, to do it together and slow down together. So follow the blog on Instagram and Facebook to get tips to slow down and ask as many questions as you like. Even a Spitfire allowed to slow down and relax a bit. ❤

I love all of you so much! ♥️

XOXO

Krisz🥰