11/03/2020
"ever changing, constant
rhythmic and random
silence, full of sound
like cold water
soothes my soul
gull cry awakens
saline cleanses
and vastness dwarfs
as I sit and breathe
the salty air
sometimes I talk
and the waves listen
but mostly the waves talk
while I sit still
and listen"
🌊Bronagh M. Dunne
For a few weeks, our hosting platform blocked me from posting video.
It was an interesting experience trying to engage this strange world of technology, social media & what has become many people's most consistent access to community during Covid.
An off the grid, face to face person that usually doesn't know where my devices are until I leave the house, I can't say I didn't feel some relief to put down such an unnatural-to-me habit.
🐾
(I got that much more time to adventure out in the mornings with Bodhimanda!)
The majority of my clientele come to me from personal referrals or sweet meetings with pups, or vegetables or kids...
not social media posts, anyways.
My mission here has been more-so to contribute free health information to the wider world, if they somehow come across it, as unlikely as that is since I don't have the slightest idea or desire to chase algorithms, buy followers or bully my way into feeds with marketing manipulations.
The random censorship, however, did prompt some concern as to what could be happening on much more "involved" pages that the general population falsely assume as reliable news sources.
People are so emotional entangled with social media, they often forget this is a data mining site for our commercial & political economy.
They become personal invested in the emotionally bipolar highs and lows of posts (that are primarily productions, not reports) to the detriment of their health and sanity.
Social media is, in fact, such a prevalent and persistent influence for my patients, that it almost always is a key negative influence on:
✨stress management
✨sleep quality
✨eye health
✨headache & migraine relief
✨neck, shoulder, back strength & function
There is SO much going on, we have SO little factual information and truely NO 100% factual resources.
With Covid cases higher than ever, people are safely physically distancing, but unsafely over consuming in screens and media.
But in a time of extreme, chronic stress AND physical distancing we NEED to relieve anxiety stress, are desperate for information and crave community connection for the hormones that are necessary for mental health.
So HOW? NO SCREENS AT ALL? But...
No, I am not saying NONE or NEVER.
The reality right now is that:
⚠️ work and school are on zoom
⚠️ it isn't safe to gather socially
⚠️ escaping into a RomCom does ease anxiety
⚠️ my kids are home ALL THE TIME. Videogames, PLEASE!
⚠️ how else will I know what is going on?
My encouragement here with this week's
MONDAY MORNING MINDFUL ME MINUTE
is to invest time into resetting to a peaceful place WITHIN you
BEFORE engaging with what the OUTER (or cyber) world is dangling in front of you.
FROM THAT SPACE step out into your days KNOWING your needs.
Assess that which you come across:
does it support or disturb that spacious and grounded place in you?
When you show up to the world
focused & rejuvenated with inner self awareness,
you show up empowered to discern WHAT & HOW you take in of the "productions" (read posts, people & triggers) that pass your view point.
It is going to be a BIG week of distractions and stimulation
that can knock you off balance into:
💥media dramas
💥displays of social distress
💥extreme expressions of opinions
💥globally intense attention
Know that you can CHOOSE with what and how much you engage with upcoming information, or NOT AT ALL, for a bit.
You can CHOOSE:
💛 daily routines
💛 nature get-aways
💛 yoga, dance & movement
💛 short & small 6ft visits with friends
💛 emotionally nourishing phone calls
... or other safe practices that contribute to that safe, peaceful state.
So we practice now:
Inhale... 2... 3... 4.
Exhale... 2... 3... 4.
ENJOY!
🙏🏽
