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January 2008 
What gets you out of bed in the morning?
Posted on Jan 11th, 2008
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Lucente
Lucente
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 11, 2008:
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I got out of bed this morning so as to do my physical therapy exercises, so as to alleviate the pain within my body. As difficult as it is to be grateful (and not discouraged) I am standing in the light of thankfulness. A year ago, a pain flare-up required total bed rest and resuming physical therapy. This week, it has merely meant I had to slow down and allow for extra rest and strengthening and exercise.
Getting out of bed this week has been more challenging than it has been is very long time. I know why ... Just don't like the reasons. :-(
However, reading Otter's post inspired something within me. (As usual, as she is gifted in the art of inspiration!) The reasons I "don't like" are my internal jellyfish — beautiful and even delicate but fully capable of a deadly sting! I do find healing in the knowledge I am not alone with my jellyfish ... But this week has sure been icky. High highs, and low lows.
Something else that gets me out of bed is the view I have regarding what is next. However, ironically, it (what is next) is also the reason I have to search out and identify a reason to get out of bed — to enlarge the boundaries around my days to include other people and experiences and all the ... Ick, ick! ... Unfamiliarity of what is coming.
Oh, well, I will just stock up on jellyfish repellent! ::grin::
I got out of bed this morning so as to do my physical therapy exercises, so as to alleviate the pain within my body. As difficult as it is to be grateful (and not discouraged) I am standing in the light of thankfulness. A year ago, a pain flare-up required total bed rest and resuming physical therapy. This week, it has merely meant I had to slow down and allow for extra rest and strengthening and exercise.
Getting out of bed this week has been more challenging than it has been is very long time. I know why ... Just don't like the reasons. :-(
However, reading Otter's post inspired something within me. (As usual, as she is gifted in the art of inspiration!) The reasons I "don't like" are my internal jellyfish — beautiful and even delicate but fully capable of a deadly sting! I do find healing in the knowledge I am not alone with my jellyfish ... But this week has sure been icky. High highs, and low lows.
Something else that gets me out of bed is the view I have regarding what is next. However, ironically, it (what is next) is also the reason I have to search out and identify a reason to get out of bed — to enlarge the boundaries around my days to include other people and experiences and all the ... Ick, ick! ... Unfamiliarity of what is coming.
Oh, well, I will just stock up on jellyfish repellent! ::grin::
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Your metaphor of the “internal jellyfish” is really neat. I've never thought of it that way. My best jellyfish repellent is reading or watching something funny. My daughter just got some, “I Love Lucy,” DVD's yesterday, so early this evening I shall give my jellyfish a dose of that. I remember one time feeling so achy and low that I wanted to live immersed in warm water. My eldest daughter had some, “Pearls Before Swine,” books and I took them in to read. Some of those comic-strips even made me laugh out loud. It was a tonic for what was ailing me for sure.
Oh, the DVD's sound divine! I actually watched an episode of vintage Lucy during a sleepless night last week! :-) My reality-escape is quiet darkness. Eye mask, iPod playing … no interruptions.
I netted my jellyfish today. I have been dealing with some physical pain issues that sort of caught me off guard as I have been without chronic pain for most of the past six months.
However, today the tonic (in the form of exercise, rest and meditation followed by light gardening and basking in the sun) finally soothed the effects of my stinging enemy. It is amazing how much better the mind functions when the cranky pain monster is no longer screaming …