What I should do
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What I should do, according
to health professionals
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What I do
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Get up slowly, have a peaceful morning
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Get up slowly, have a peaceful morning – most days
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Meditate or do guided meditation
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Nope – not regularly
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Exercise
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Does doing the laundry count?
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Do 200 eye convergence exercise reps a day
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Was doing 50 a day. Dr. said I
had made no improvement. Quit doing
them
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Journal
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Was doing 3 pages in the morning regularly, liked it, quit. Think I will start again.
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Eat healthy food
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Crave sugar and chocolate. Often
give in to cravings. Regular diet is
far too much on the carbohydrate side.
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Make healthy supper
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Often loss energy and motivation and declare it is “fend for yourself
supper.”
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Enjoy my life
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Talk to my family as they rotate through my house
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Have lunch with friends once a week
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Play on my iPad, some of the games are reported to improve my brain
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Listen to audio books
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Sew, quilt
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Watch TV while doing hand work like quilting or crocheting.
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Host family dinners, play with my grand children
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Enjoy the people I’m with
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Walk or train the dog
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Haven’t done that regularly since May. Now I am too scared of slipping and
falling.
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Take breaks and don’t overdo it
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I’m learning to do that. I
plan for a period of work and a then break.
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It is very difficult to keep up with standards imposed by others, and impossible to keep up with standards imposed by ourselves. I was reading about the sermon on the mount, and the author said that while we are to strive for these ideals, part of the point is that we can’t live up to them, and we are supposed to realize that we need forgiveness and grace!
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