Kunbi Korostensky N.D - MAKING LIFE CHANGES SIMPLE

Feeling Overwhelmed - Slow Down!

One thing I'm absolutely sure of is that when overwhelmed, we all withdraw and nothing happens.

I had a full dosage of this recently. I have been away doing a 4 days Workshop and one on one consultation with people dealing with fear and energy problems. When I got back home I was met with a variety of chores that needed to be taken care of.

Needless to say that before I knew it, I found myself recoiling and withdrawing. I noticed that by the middle of the week I had  completely shut down and became very uptight.

So I did what I felt urged to do. I decided to take a day of lazying around. This I did by chilling out and refusing to go anywhere or do anything which required too much of an effort. I listened to music, played with our cats, and thoroughly enjoyed the autumn weather outside, by taking some walks in our beautiful garden. All in all, a fruitful and most enjoyable day.

When I got up this morning, I felt my energy surging back. Now I'm ready to take on the world again. As my mind cleared up, I felt new ideas and inspiration being born. The feeling of being overwhelmed have subsided and nothing seems too much to face anymore. So here I am updating my blog, finishing some other writings and preparing my Seminar program for 2006.

To think that yesterday, all these would have felt overwhelming to me.

it's certainly a wondrous life! I never fail to marvel at how simple life really can be to manage, if one focuses on the issues of the moment.          

            

When Your Body Needs You

Even though I am quite aware of the importance of taking care of your body and health, after all I have spent the last 20 something years getting people to listen to their body and following its wisdom. Still, I was quite taken aback by what happened to me recently.

Our Foundation "Attitudinal Healing" is preparing for its autumn public function. This year, we are holding an art exhibition with music at my own gallery. As president of the Foundation, naturally, I need to co-ordinate a number of things. One of these is organizing transportation for the paintings and the artists.

Well, due to circumstances I'd rather not go into here, I freed up my time, organized a small bus owned by a friend and together with my car, off we went to go pick up the paintings and the artists. Everything went smoothly and together with five other people we got paintings, artists and bus all in one piece back to my gallery.

We spent the rest of the day doing what most other galleries do in the event of an upcoming showing. Hanging up the paintings, labelling them, adjusting the lights, cleaning up, getting things together and thorougly feeling great about our work. In the past I'd left most of this initial work to the Artists and their friends.   

When I got back home that night, the exhaustion kicked in. My body ached, my feet burned from running up and down the stairs and in circles, my head hummed and I felt completely drained.

I realised that there was no way I was going to go through a mentoring class I had coming up at 3:00 AM in the morning! Here was my body telling me very clearly that it needs me. so I flopped down unto the coach in the living room and dosed off for a while. When I got up half an hour later, my body felt like lead which I barely managed to drag along.

That was it! I knew I had to do something fast. I dragged myself down to the bathroom, turned on the tapwater and ran the bath. I soaked away my entire weariness and tiredness in that bath tub, feeling with every passing minute the relief and the lightness of being again.

After the bath, I curled up into bed with a cup of hot soothing holicks for my nerves and went to sleep.

When I got up the next morning, I felt rejuvenated and free of all aches and pains. Really, even after all these years, the soothing effect of water still never stops to amaze me.