This year is ending on such a high note as I make myself my priority.
Today I did two sets of pull ups...I am really learning how to let my body hang and pull it up. I also tried puttong my legs steaight out as I lifted...a whole other move to figure out. I am so excited with all of this. 20 minutes on the bouncer focused ln my plsfure eve while I read my book. As my stamina grows and I begin to bounce more vigorously that will be history. I have put a small clock on the shelf so I can see the time without needing to pick up my cell phone.
Next was legs up the wall and the exercises that I do with that. 15 minutes maybe more.. I did ot time. Again raising my vibrations and then filling every space in my body with hesling energies. More mindfully today..feeling the energies expand in every inch of me. A lovely feeling.
Back exercises. ..my mind totally focused on my body and feeling the exercise through my body. It is slowed down and mindful. .a big difference for me. I could only hold the plank for a count of 25 today. I realized that I had already done many abdominal exercises and my muscles were tired. I shall rethink where to include the plank.
I forgot that I had made up a new exerckse while my legs were up the wall. I did a bridge but as though I was doing a shoulder stand so my body was upside dlwn and I held that for a count of about 15. And the while on the met and in a bridge I did 15 pulses and the 10 hip ups from the floor to bridge.
I took my green drink and drank more water so far today
Startedmy belly dance DVD but my lunch was too present for such core intensive moves probably after about 10 minutes. Will have to rethink my timing on this. Before lunch... which will add 30 minutes to my me devoted time in the morning
I did another 15 minutes on the bouncer paying attention to my posture...it is really interesting what you find out when you body is your sole focus. Pulling my body up, lengthening my spine, sliding my shoulder blades down my spine, pulling in my abdominal muscles and stomach muscles as I fix my posture as I am bouncing is fascinating...so totally aware of my body...and as I write this sitting on the couch I am once again aware of my posture and have straightened my back. The more I am aware of my posture the better my body will feel and look. I used to be totally aware of of it years ago when I belly danced all the time. A goal for sure grins... I love it.
I just tried doing a chin up using the arm curl part of the pull up bar. It is going to take a while to figure out the correct way and then develop those muscles.
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Saturday, December 30, 2017
12/30/17
Today is Saturday....I am starting to stay up later and sleep later so my day started at 9am..a late start for me. I had breakfast and then read for a while with my second cup of coffee. Then I wanted to move.
First stop...my pull up bar. I did my hanging and then pulled up for a slow count of 10 and then I thought about pull ups. I saw a thing on Facebook about a mother and daughter who decided to lose weight and exercise together and it showed them doing chin ups. Ha!! I want to be able to do that. SomI added jn 5 pull ups. ..Of course I cannot pull up far but....I could do a little and I did 5. In fact I repeated that later on and then again when a friend visited and we were talking about my goals. She is going to get a pull up bar also
Next into the bouncy room and 15 minutes on the bouncer with focus on my posture... very aware of pulling stomach in, body up, shoulders rolled back, making myself taller. Then legs up the wall for 15 minutes and I did the 90 degree leg stretcn for a count of 30 and then I did 20 pulling hips up so my legs slid up the wall.
Then I did my back exercises. on doing the twist knees to the side while torso is still flat...I held the position for a count of 15 to really stretch that out. I held my plank for a count of 45.
My friend came for astrology and the we went to the store so there was less time available to do more exercise and I am sitting on the couch writing this. I will have to think about fitting exercise around my life once I have my carback. Getting up at 9am means I lose morning time and I am going to think about that. Morning is my time most free for me so I want to be up earlier than 9 am
I am so enjoying doing this for me. it is after 8pm and I am done for the day.
I am feeling good about what I am doing for me. It used to matter years ago that I was in good physical condition and while I have always done some form of exercise. .I am in the worst shape that I have ever been in. Each day I am going to improve my physical condition joyfully.
I did a visualization exercise while Imhad my legs up the wall. I raised my vibrations first and the I imagined healing energy e tering my body throuh my head and slowly filling up my body starting at my head, into my shoulders and down my arms to my hands and then slowly filling my torso and heading down and then filling my legs and feet and then just kind of being. It was an awesome experience. I swear I could feel that energy moving slowly through me...
First stop...my pull up bar. I did my hanging and then pulled up for a slow count of 10 and then I thought about pull ups. I saw a thing on Facebook about a mother and daughter who decided to lose weight and exercise together and it showed them doing chin ups. Ha!! I want to be able to do that. SomI added jn 5 pull ups. ..Of course I cannot pull up far but....I could do a little and I did 5. In fact I repeated that later on and then again when a friend visited and we were talking about my goals. She is going to get a pull up bar also
Next into the bouncy room and 15 minutes on the bouncer with focus on my posture... very aware of pulling stomach in, body up, shoulders rolled back, making myself taller. Then legs up the wall for 15 minutes and I did the 90 degree leg stretcn for a count of 30 and then I did 20 pulling hips up so my legs slid up the wall.
Then I did my back exercises. on doing the twist knees to the side while torso is still flat...I held the position for a count of 15 to really stretch that out. I held my plank for a count of 45.
My friend came for astrology and the we went to the store so there was less time available to do more exercise and I am sitting on the couch writing this. I will have to think about fitting exercise around my life once I have my carback. Getting up at 9am means I lose morning time and I am going to think about that. Morning is my time most free for me so I want to be up earlier than 9 am
I am so enjoying doing this for me. it is after 8pm and I am done for the day.
I am feeling good about what I am doing for me. It used to matter years ago that I was in good physical condition and while I have always done some form of exercise. .I am in the worst shape that I have ever been in. Each day I am going to improve my physical condition joyfully.
I did a visualization exercise while Imhad my legs up the wall. I raised my vibrations first and the I imagined healing energy e tering my body throuh my head and slowly filling up my body starting at my head, into my shoulders and down my arms to my hands and then slowly filling my torso and heading down and then filling my legs and feet and then just kind of being. It was an awesome experience. I swear I could feel that energy moving slowly through me...
I am embracing my body 12/30/17
I no longer sit for hours
Lost in a good book
Or in the black hole of social media
Or in front of the television
As sound and pictures wash over me
I have a purpose
I have a goal
I am embracing my body
I am embracing me
I feel the call to activity
I feel the call to move
I feel the call to rebuild
I feel the call to improve me
I am filled with happy
I am filled with joy
All of a sudden the world is brighter
All of a sudden my heart smiles
All of a sudden, deep within
A bubble begins to form
And it gets bigger and bigger
And I cannot contain it
And it bursts and overflows me
With love
Because I have decided
To embrace all of me
Friday, December 29, 2017
My Purpose is me.... 12/26/17
It is the day after Christmas
The festivities are over
The house still a little upside down
The post dinner detritus
Slowly being dealt with
A day to relax...
To regain my equilibrium
And I realized...
I need a purpose in my life
Friends and the holidays
Have occupied my life
For the last few months
And time has lessened the grief
Of Mum's passing.
It is time for my life
To fall into new patterns
Time to truly focus on me
Time to decide
What do I want for me?
It kind of started yesterday
When I kept no leftovers
Other than some apple cake
My health and my body
Are my first priorities
Time to make the time
For vitamins and green drink
For mindful eating
For keeping hydrated
For exercise and toning
To regain all that I have lost
During the caregiving years.
I have had many other thoughts
Flying through my head
Of what I might like to do
But I am stilling those voices.
One purpose at a time.
My purpose right now
Is rebuilding me.....
A new beginning in life 12/29/17
I started my new focus on me yesterday...
My caregiving years ended this year - a blessing for both me and for Mum who is now gloriously happy and free and truly herself once more. I am 71 years old - hard to imagine when I feel like I am 18!!! I am in good health and on no medications. I eat a healthy mostly organic diet with some meat.
Now I am focusing on regaining me. I have not exercised regularly in five years and am in the worst shape I have ever been in. So I am being loving to myself and starting slowly and easily. I want this to be a fun journey and I want to be proud of my body once more.
So I am going to keep track of my progress here because I love to write and because it is part of my purpose to be aware of what I am doing for me.
I am incorporating all kinds of elements into this journey for me. I have decided to turn the master bedroom on the main floor into an exercise palace rather than move into Mum's old room right now. I don't need to have a big guest room because I don't get guests often enough to warrant saving that much space for them. I can manage that in the front room which is now my study, breakfast and lunch room but has a love seat that makes into a comfortable single bed. It has been tried out successsfully I am happy to say.
So my plans for a king size bed in the master bedroom are toast. Instead I have moved my mini trampoline down there and my exercise mats. I moved my weights in there too. Once the christmas tree comes down and I can move the extra furniture into the living room again - I can finish my love my body room. I put two mirrors in there and think I will add many more - the cheap ones from Walmart... just so I can see what I am doing and watch my body improve itself!!
So - yesterday I began. First I did a pull up on the pull up bar. Now you have to understand that I am not doing a chin up... maybe in the future. For right now - I hang bending my knees so that my entire body is stretched out - and when I feel fully stretched then I pull my body off the floor and up just a fraction. I did not think much of this accomplishment until a month ago when I found out that a much youmger friend of mine could not do that at all. So now I am feeling pretty accomplished that I can!! then I did about 10 minutes just easily bouncing on the bouncer - being aware of my posture. I threw my feet up the wall for another 10 minutes or so and did the 90 degrees apart leg exercise... just stretching and I lifted my butt of the floor 10 times using my stomach muscles sliding my feet up the wall. I put on an exercise program - a gilead? one and did the first 10 minutes of that as well. very aerobic and so happy I could keep up with them. I also did a plank that I held for 20 seconds.
And now today... 12/29/17 - Friday
Once again I started with my pull up. I have the bar in the laundry room door which accomplishes two things. I can use it easily whenever I want and it stops the door from closing so the dog does not get stuck in there. Again I focused on just letting my whole body hang and stretch out completely. And then I did my pull up - I pulled myself up as much as I could and held it for a slow count of ten - more or less 10 seconds... and then I moved on to the bouncer - 15 minutes today - still easy bouncing. I maintained a good posture and read my book. It felt good and I imagined healing energies flooding my body - as I brought my cells into alignment with my higher self. Next it was legs up the wall same as yesterday - with the same exercises. then I did a few weight exercises for my arms using the 4 pound weights. I will have to get a set of 8 pounds as I get stronger. And I have the 80s music channel on so I did some dancing to that.
I am also studying astrology and thinking about teaching a class in basic astrology possibly via the internet as a friend of mine out of state wants to be included. So my mind is also playing with that. I also teach belly dancing at the local senior center. I have not yet added dancing seriously back into my schedule. This is a slow climb for me mentally physically and spiritually. I am just so happy that I can even start my focus on me you have no idea.
I did some of my regular floor exercises to support my back...including leg raises and scissors and exercises to relax the psoas muscle, some legs twisting to the side and a bridge with pelvic pulses to work buttocks stomach and thighs. And I did my one plank held for 30 seconds...phew. but it feels so good to be doing thjs for my body.
and now that my one of my best friends figured out how too hook up the DVD player I can play my DVDs and of course I chose the belly dancing one. Boy do I have work to do but it felt wonderful focusing on all those movements. Time to build up that flexibility and control and stamina!! But....I could do the movements all of them.. well except the reverse belly roll...that is a challenge because I did not learn that one years ago. What a trip!! Intense concentration and I brought those two mirrors out of the exercise palace into the living room...or is that my dance palace...? so that I can see what I am doing. Tomorrow I will dress the part...and have even nore fun!! I am so loving the me that I am and the me I am becoming! ! Life is so good!!
And I took my green drink and next are my vitamins. I did not do too well with my water but tbat is okay. Tomorow I will do better... develop new habits one day at a time!!
My caregiving years ended this year - a blessing for both me and for Mum who is now gloriously happy and free and truly herself once more. I am 71 years old - hard to imagine when I feel like I am 18!!! I am in good health and on no medications. I eat a healthy mostly organic diet with some meat.
Now I am focusing on regaining me. I have not exercised regularly in five years and am in the worst shape I have ever been in. So I am being loving to myself and starting slowly and easily. I want this to be a fun journey and I want to be proud of my body once more.
So I am going to keep track of my progress here because I love to write and because it is part of my purpose to be aware of what I am doing for me.
I am incorporating all kinds of elements into this journey for me. I have decided to turn the master bedroom on the main floor into an exercise palace rather than move into Mum's old room right now. I don't need to have a big guest room because I don't get guests often enough to warrant saving that much space for them. I can manage that in the front room which is now my study, breakfast and lunch room but has a love seat that makes into a comfortable single bed. It has been tried out successsfully I am happy to say.
So my plans for a king size bed in the master bedroom are toast. Instead I have moved my mini trampoline down there and my exercise mats. I moved my weights in there too. Once the christmas tree comes down and I can move the extra furniture into the living room again - I can finish my love my body room. I put two mirrors in there and think I will add many more - the cheap ones from Walmart... just so I can see what I am doing and watch my body improve itself!!
So - yesterday I began. First I did a pull up on the pull up bar. Now you have to understand that I am not doing a chin up... maybe in the future. For right now - I hang bending my knees so that my entire body is stretched out - and when I feel fully stretched then I pull my body off the floor and up just a fraction. I did not think much of this accomplishment until a month ago when I found out that a much youmger friend of mine could not do that at all. So now I am feeling pretty accomplished that I can!! then I did about 10 minutes just easily bouncing on the bouncer - being aware of my posture. I threw my feet up the wall for another 10 minutes or so and did the 90 degrees apart leg exercise... just stretching and I lifted my butt of the floor 10 times using my stomach muscles sliding my feet up the wall. I put on an exercise program - a gilead? one and did the first 10 minutes of that as well. very aerobic and so happy I could keep up with them. I also did a plank that I held for 20 seconds.
And now today... 12/29/17 - Friday
Once again I started with my pull up. I have the bar in the laundry room door which accomplishes two things. I can use it easily whenever I want and it stops the door from closing so the dog does not get stuck in there. Again I focused on just letting my whole body hang and stretch out completely. And then I did my pull up - I pulled myself up as much as I could and held it for a slow count of ten - more or less 10 seconds... and then I moved on to the bouncer - 15 minutes today - still easy bouncing. I maintained a good posture and read my book. It felt good and I imagined healing energies flooding my body - as I brought my cells into alignment with my higher self. Next it was legs up the wall same as yesterday - with the same exercises. then I did a few weight exercises for my arms using the 4 pound weights. I will have to get a set of 8 pounds as I get stronger. And I have the 80s music channel on so I did some dancing to that.
I am also studying astrology and thinking about teaching a class in basic astrology possibly via the internet as a friend of mine out of state wants to be included. So my mind is also playing with that. I also teach belly dancing at the local senior center. I have not yet added dancing seriously back into my schedule. This is a slow climb for me mentally physically and spiritually. I am just so happy that I can even start my focus on me you have no idea.
I did some of my regular floor exercises to support my back...including leg raises and scissors and exercises to relax the psoas muscle, some legs twisting to the side and a bridge with pelvic pulses to work buttocks stomach and thighs. And I did my one plank held for 30 seconds...phew. but it feels so good to be doing thjs for my body.
and now that my one of my best friends figured out how too hook up the DVD player I can play my DVDs and of course I chose the belly dancing one. Boy do I have work to do but it felt wonderful focusing on all those movements. Time to build up that flexibility and control and stamina!! But....I could do the movements all of them.. well except the reverse belly roll...that is a challenge because I did not learn that one years ago. What a trip!! Intense concentration and I brought those two mirrors out of the exercise palace into the living room...or is that my dance palace...? so that I can see what I am doing. Tomorrow I will dress the part...and have even nore fun!! I am so loving the me that I am and the me I am becoming! ! Life is so good!!
And I took my green drink and next are my vitamins. I did not do too well with my water but tbat is okay. Tomorow I will do better... develop new habits one day at a time!!
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