prana and babygrowing
Being pregnant continually offers me opportunities to respond to prana without judgement.
For example, if I HAVETOEATRIGHTNOW, I eat. Simple enough. no worries about how my ass is going to look because I am eating all the time. I don't typically eat all the time, so I can embrace that I am responding to very natural and healthy impulses to nourish myself and my baby. Of course, it is also helpful for me to consciously eat healthful foods (though ice cream every day is so compelling).
The most major change I've been experiencing that I keep realizing is not a "problem" is when I become sleepy, groggy, tired, needing to just stop, sit down or lay down, and relax. I have often perceived this to be an unhealthy sign - that is, the thought that "if I am feeling so tired in the middle of the day, I must be unwell/out of shape/eating poorly".... and I catch myself starting to think these thoughts and wondering why I'm so tired..... then I pause and consider how much work my body is doing to set up the biosphere for my baby, pumping twice as much blood, building extra cells, filtering digested food to nourish baby, changing muscular structure to move along with the growth and development, etc. No wonder I feel so tired!
We move out on Tuesday. To the Residence Inn. On Thursday, the movers come to trek everything out of the house. Then the week of Feb. 26 we will close on this house and hand it over to the buyers. I have been packing like a mofo for days, weeks. And of course we are also moving Grandma's belongings out of her current facility and moving it to her new facility, all next week too. Again... this shit would make anyone tired. Prana is expressing itself in ALL kinda ways.
So I'm sitting down. Watching Happy Gilmore. Gazing at two of the cats who are napping so so peacefully that it feels like a drug just to be around these energies.
I lovingly honor and care for this sacred body, and this sacred life within me.
For example, if I HAVETOEATRIGHTNOW, I eat. Simple enough. no worries about how my ass is going to look because I am eating all the time. I don't typically eat all the time, so I can embrace that I am responding to very natural and healthy impulses to nourish myself and my baby. Of course, it is also helpful for me to consciously eat healthful foods (though ice cream every day is so compelling).
The most major change I've been experiencing that I keep realizing is not a "problem" is when I become sleepy, groggy, tired, needing to just stop, sit down or lay down, and relax. I have often perceived this to be an unhealthy sign - that is, the thought that "if I am feeling so tired in the middle of the day, I must be unwell/out of shape/eating poorly".... and I catch myself starting to think these thoughts and wondering why I'm so tired..... then I pause and consider how much work my body is doing to set up the biosphere for my baby, pumping twice as much blood, building extra cells, filtering digested food to nourish baby, changing muscular structure to move along with the growth and development, etc. No wonder I feel so tired!
We move out on Tuesday. To the Residence Inn. On Thursday, the movers come to trek everything out of the house. Then the week of Feb. 26 we will close on this house and hand it over to the buyers. I have been packing like a mofo for days, weeks. And of course we are also moving Grandma's belongings out of her current facility and moving it to her new facility, all next week too. Again... this shit would make anyone tired. Prana is expressing itself in ALL kinda ways.
So I'm sitting down. Watching Happy Gilmore. Gazing at two of the cats who are napping so so peacefully that it feels like a drug just to be around these energies.
I lovingly honor and care for this sacred body, and this sacred life within me.