40 Days of Gratitude (Day V / Sunday)
If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness.
It will change your life mightily.
~Gerald Good
Day V - My Health
This was impressed upon me by several things in the last week.
I have several things that are considered "medically wrong" with me. There are easy ones and hard ones. From the outside, I get easiest to my skin (all of it), my joints (ankles, knees, wrists, jaw), my spine (upper and lower). From the inside, there's the reflux, the ADHD, the OCD, migraines, the eating and sleeping problems, just to start with.
I'm not actually or actively seeing a doctor or taking medication for any of them.
Nor am I 'taking it easy' on my life because of them. The opposite, in fact.
Because no matter how many things I have issues with -- mentally and physically -- I continue to walk through my days realizing how incredibly blessed I am. With every square inch of my skin, and every crinkle in my brain, and all the hard work my body does for me every day, no matter how much I dislike or love it. I keep returning to the Hathor ritual. To how much we take for granted in our bodies, every day.
The ability to reach out and pick things up. To breathe and laugh. And write. Just thinking about how much my body does for me to do these things, which fill my heart daily, fills my heart with such warmth and gratitude. For every muscle and every memory. For being full of so much ability, so much beauty, so much continued possibility.