I am grateful for yesterday’s…

• extraordinary national conference (on #socialprescribing)
• giving a talk: My social prescribing story
• sharing the billing with the Sec of State for Health, Rt Hon Matt Hancock (!) who swung by to announce the government’s plan for Social Prescribing
• the incredible love, kindness, warmth, compassion, care I experienced from the people at the conf on giving my (patient voice) story – oh my….. <3
• meeting such amazing, talented, passionate people, committed to the health and wellbeing of this nation
• winning one of the 3 raffle prizes at the end of the day! – and enjoying our collective sense of delight and amusement in the ‘patient’ getting a cosmic nod. One of the organisers, Prof M, congratulated me heartily afterwards, saying: “God {kiss on the cheek} favours the bold” – which moved me no end.
• getting the train back and hitting the last 10 mins of choir, and then going out for a drink with my handsome love, and having someone so caring/astute/kind/loving/profound with whom to share our days’ news

Yesterday was marked by joy, ease, confirmation, affirmation… God does favour the bold! There was a sense of my two ‘identities’ coming together and merging: the ‘professional’ me and the ‘complicated, raw, honest, broken, bold, passionate’ me. And that felt amazing. I felt emboldened by speaking out about my mental health recovery. I felt aligned to that ‘personal credo’  of mine I identified when asked to ponder it a few weeks ago in Reality Transurfing:

My personal credo: we can all be happy

And today, now, continued focus. I have training to deliver at a university, and much work to do in the coming eight days.

Let’s keep it easy and light. ‘Attend neutrally’… 

Thank you. Yes, I would love to keep swimming in this flow of wellbeing, confirmation, trust, enjoyment and ease…

Good. And so it is. 

What is the thought for the day today, dear heart of my soul?

The Practice

Uhuh, interesting. Tell me more…

We are developing The Practice that sustains health and wellbeing, in a heart-centred state. 

Ooh… What should I know, consider, explore along those lines today?

Ask yourself: is the practice ‘boring’? If it is, then it is feeding a part of the being which needs nourishing, and which the ego would deprive of fuel – and deters you from feeding it by flagging it as ‘booorrrringgg’. The (heart-centred) boring practice leads to the interesting life. The overactive, fluxing, titivating practice can lead to rather overly-complex, dissipated days… 

So I should enjoy, or relish, or make peace with, the ‘boring’ practices?

Ponder that today.

Today I will embrace ‘boring’ practices… from a heart-centred place.

‘Embrace’ may be too strong/loaded/activated a word…

Today I will appreciate ‘boring’ practices…from a heart-centred place?

There’s your ticket… (But are they boring..?)

Today I am appreciating the seemingly ‘boring’ practices…from a heart-centred place

 

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Meditation: 20 mins of MEDITATION? NO – eek

Exercise: ONE HOUR OF EXERCISE? NO – ehem

Diet: BRAIN-MAKER DIET? NEARLY DRY today? NO MORNING: My muesli, coffee with cream, cabbage&scrambled egg& sauerkraut; supplements (probiotic, NAC, Vit D3) Afternoon/Evening: A cereal bar, a squash drink, a tea; roast chicken and courgette; G&T in tinx2 What do I mean by the Brainmaker diet?  My take is a kind of keto, lowcarbhighfat, natural, pre/probiotics… The problem issues for me at the moment are: sneaky carbs, the ‘relaxing’ drink at the end of the day (even if low-carb) and… quantity / timings / overeating Next: I need to think about intermittent fasting, I believe. Eg even 16:8… 11am – 7pm… would help – if I had black coffee or green tea in the morning. I could introduce more of the prebiotic / probiotic foods – kimchi, kefir, pickles…

Sleep: IN BED WITH MY BOOKS BY 10pm? NEARLY Screens off:    10.45pm      Lights out: 11pm Wake up the next day:              7.45am      Total sleep: 8.5h – YES!