Comments on: Listening to your Body, Listening to your Life

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:15:32 +0000

In reply to Mollie Lyon. Hi Mollie, Lovely to hear from you. Imagine hearing a pop! How stressful. I do love yoga, but frequently do injure myself, injure my ankle in some poses, especially those which require you to place all your body weight on your toes, or just on one foot while you fly. I think I will continue... though I am nervous since the ankle pain after the last class meant I could no longer walk for exercise for almost a week! Ah, well, aging!! Anita xx

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:10:51 +0000

In reply to David C Brown. Thanks, David. I was also in the Lake District at the start of June, near Bassenthwaite, and loved it. I have never been to the Scottish Highlands. Do you recommend it?

By: David C Brown

David C Brown — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:31:50 +0000

Sciatica can be very demanding; in everything we need to learn God’s grace, but also to be patient since He is the Healer. I was in the Lake District at the start of the month and enjoyed it. Have you tried the Scottish Highlands?

By: Mollie Lyon

Mollie Lyon — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 02:24:20 +0000

After many years of problems with irritable bowel syndrome, I found a regimen that is working. I am eating more healthily than when I first empty nested. I want to put pure food in my mouth.
I always walk, a slower walk now that my dog is eleven. I noticed about a month ago my thighs going numb when I stand too long, which I do with my charting as a home health nurse, write as I do my assessment .I thought I would try a childhood friend’s yoga class. I believe I overextended my left leg and Sunday morning after resting it all day Saturday, I heard a pop when I was walking. I sprained a muscle , a thin long one and fortunately, I have a week off work. It is hard to rest, but them I do some activities and the pain is there. So, I, too, am listening to my body. Live younger longer- a Shaklee slogan, but I do like it, or as a ninety four year old patient told me, “I’m going to live until I die.”

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:02:42 +0000

In reply to JoAnn.

JoAnn, you are dealing with SO, SO much. Don’t go it alone. I am working with a health coach, and recording everything I eat, and then going through it weekly, changing my diet, and losing a pound a week over the last 4 weeks. We are aiming to double that in the next four weeks. Please consider getting someone to walk beside you in this difficult stretch of the road… a personal trainer, a therapist, counsellor, health coach, as you feel led. ( I am a fan of anti-depressants, whether natural like St. John’s Wort, or prescription to help us over the hump of sad times which devastate brain chemistry. I don’t use them myself, any more, but I have in the past.
Journalling, and reading the Bible and journalling our honest responses are also therapeutic.
My blessings, JoAnn!

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:48:35 +0000

In reply to John MacArthur.

The “the acute, the ‘do something now’ kind of agony, off the scale” agony sounds excruciating. I am so sorry to read this, and hope it’s all over now.
This is actually my first experience of chronic pain, which, though mild, prevents much walking… and I guess I am being a bit of a baby about it!!
Aging has been fun for me… it’s a more spacious time of life, with more time, more perspective, and a more light-hearted, and amused perspective on things. Of course, at this time of life, everything can change in a moment with a unfavourable health diagnosis!

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:30:12 +0000

In reply to Ken. Thank you, Ken, and good wishes for good health, and a swift recovery. Blessings, Anita

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:28:44 +0000

In reply to Serena Kaylen Crompton. Thanks so much, Serena. I wish pain hadn't forced me to listen to my body, and put it first.

By: JoAnn

JoAnn — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:41:03 +0000

Excellent advice that speaks to me. I have been dealing with a great amount of stress taking care of family business, as well as grieving the loss of my husband. Lately I have been having more frequent bouts of depression, which leads to eating too much and lacking motivation for anything, including my writing. Your words inspire me to put myself first so that I can be fit and filled with God’s strength and grace to handle each day’s burdens. Thank you, Anita, for sharing your story.

By: Serena Kaylen Crompton

Serena Kaylen Crompton — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 13:29:15 +0000

I always devour every word you write, Anita. Thank you! At 64 and having dealt with severe arthritis for two plus decades, I am only now learning to “listen to” my body. I wish I’d read this long ago.