Embody Mental Health

I am one always up for a challenge.  Even and especially a both beneficial and slightly masochistic one when I least have time for it.  As I have been feeling life a little off kilter lately with more work and more work and then work after work and little personal or reflection time I think I am in desperate need of a forced regimen for a solid 21 days!  So, wandering through my blogosphere favorite blogs taking a night off from paperworking myself into a stupor and I stumbled upon it’s all yoga,baby’s post about Bindu Wiles 21-5-800 challenge.  I gulped and clicked on the link knowing full well that I was clicking myself into a commitment but knowing it was one thing I really, really needed.

I had my lists of why-nots (don’t we always) such as upcoming speaking engagements, workshops, trainings, long-as-heck-workweeks, and overexhaustion, but those were also, it turned out, my “whys” as well.  I was in desperate need of some mental, bodily, and spiritual replenishment and what better way to instill this into my June than with a challenge to myself to build it into the next 21 days–no matter what.  I figured it was also no coincidence that I had stumbled upon it’s all yoga baby’s post just as I felt myself on the brink of life burnout.  A sign? Un segno de dio? (as I remember the old Italian woman in “Under the Tuscan Sun” saying over the fortuitous bird poop that got Diane Lane into her Tuscan home)  Maybe.  It definitely felt like it.

So 800 words a day, 5 yoga practices a week, and 21 days to go–here I come!  What a great way to get me in gear with my work on the book and to get me back in a blogging groove–I have been a little tuckered and a little off lately .  Please feel free to join me by visiting Bindu Wiles site and comment here about this venture!

http://binduwiles.com/buddhism/my-new-project-21-5-800/

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