Throughout my life I’ve occasionally had spells of a few weeks or months in which I don’t feel great: I seem to have low energy, brain fog, a lack of optimism, and indecisiveness. Sometimes it’s only a day or two.
There doesn’t need to be some life event that triggers this compromised state, so it’s hard to know what to fix. In this state I don’t quite know how I’m doing, only that some things feel off, and getting ordinary things done seems inexplicably difficult.
I hope you’re doing okay on this particular day of your life. But in case you’re not, I want to share something that has helped me move through the murk, even though I don’t know what the murk is exactly.
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I'm David, and Raptitude is a blog about getting better at being human -- things we can do to improve our lives today.
The ice cream example made me laugh. Even getting exactly what we wanted can turn straight into reaching for the next spoonful. Using just one inbreath as the starting point makes this feel much more approachable than setting out to “be still for twenty minutes”.