Clear Versus Cloudy
Clear heads prevail. How often, though, do we have a clear head during a caregiving day?
Clear heads prevail.
With a clear head, we have the capacity to exercise every day, take time to shop for and prepare healthy meals. With a clear head, we want to work out. We crave fruits and vegetables.
In order to have a clear head, we must be free of worries, pressure, stress.
The worries, pressure and stress create our cloudy heads.
With a cloudy head, we become singular in thought — keeping up with our caregiving responsibilities, staying in the fight. With a cloudy head, the caregiving day becomes the work-out. We crave the food that quiets our stress — Peanut Butter Cups, Doritos, wine. (Okay, those items were on my menu.)
With a cloudy head, we can’t see our way through because the sounds of our stress, worries and pressure are too loud. We are in the fight.
We often beat ourselves up because we didn’t take the walk, didn’t eat the fruit, didn’t stop at a handful of Doritos. It’s more important we acknowledge the impact of our cloudy head. The cloudy head keeps us focused on the fight.
A clear head reminds us that we can temporarily stop the fight in order to give our body, mind and spirit a break. During the break, we can relax so that our body wants the walk, the fruit and the healthy meal.
We need a clear head. We deserve a clear head.
I’m curious: How do you clear your head of the stress, worries and pressure from your caregiving experience? What makes it difficult for you to have a clear head?
(Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay.)
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this is a good post! Oh boy, well on most days my head is definitely cloudy, especially when I do not receive support from my brother because he is working extra hours the past few weeks and he himself is tired. So, just extra stress for me.
Whenever I can, I try to exercise at my gym (right now it is swimming) or even go to what is called a 'stretch lab' where my muscles are stretched out and warmed up, feels great kind of like someone doing yoga stretches for you. Yoga is so healthy for the body and mind to me