Activating myself

[Hope67]

Hi Blueberry,
I also enjoy the feeling when old items of clothing find a new home - it is a nice feeling.  Glad you found some items that you wanted as well.   

[Blueberry]

Not very active today or yesterday. Today I remembered there's quite a bit going on tomorrow and Sunday and that I often slow down in advance of busy days. So that feels better, remembering why I might be acting like this.

[SenseOrgan]

Makes sense to me Blueberry. In a bit of a similar spot today myself. Saving energy for tomorrow, allowing myself to take things easy today. Good luck tomorrow (and today) 

[sanmagic7]

blueberry, i actually do this a lot.  like storing up energy for what's to come.  also downtime afterwards.  i think you're achieving good energy management, which equals good self-care.  love and hugs

[NarcKiddo]

It sounds very sensible to slow down a bit in advance of busy days.

 

[Blueberry]

Thank you all, I tend to forget how useful downtime in advance is for me and get self-critical about not doing much. I've been on my sofa much of the day and my dreams have been crazy and wild, so there's been something going on under the surface too. Plus my landlord and his son-in-law have been here building stuff outside, which is a bit triggering for me tho they're not doing anything wrong.

[HannahOne]

Glad you could take today easy! I took it relatively easy today, too. Always managing the battery. There's wisdom in that.

The landlord making noise outside would be very triggering for me too! if it's ok, I hope there is some respite from the sounds, whether you can drown it out with music or the sound of ocean waves, or take a little walk as a break.

[Blueberry]

Hooray for exercise!

Hmm. Foot and toe exercises aren't quite the same as exercise! Somewhere you will find a thread I started for those of us who feel 'allergic to exercise'.

I haven't really continued with my foot and toe exercises, what else is new? Well, keeping going with all sorts of things is one of my major difficulties.
The past few days i've been curled up in the fetal position for reasons which may be apparent for those reading my journal on the private part of the forum. What I have been managing though is to at least wiggle my toes and do ankle rotations, and foot forward and back (at ankle), which is supposedly a particularly important exercise for my foot problems.

It's more useful in the short, medium and probably even long-term to look at what I manage as opposed to what I don't.

[HannahOne]

I stand corrected, foot and ankle exercise is not exercise, it's something else! Please, carry on and ignore what doesn't suit! Solidarity in the struggle to do exercises, or not-exercises, whatever they are.

[Blueberry]

Sorry Hannah1 if it sounds as if I was being pedantic. Maybe just overly self-critical, not accepting that my foot and ankle exercises are exercise even if not the hard workout many people see as exercise in this day and age.

[NarcKiddo]

not accepting that my foot and ankle exercises are exercise even if not the hard workout many people see as exercise in this day and age

Any movement, especially done with intention to benefit the body, is exercise in my book. Due to my own current limitations I am being forced to re-evaluate what I see as exercise, and appreciate what I am doing for the benefits it can bring. Even if, as is the case with me, I would actually enjoy working myself into a sweaty heap.

Whether or not you want to think of it as exercise, or call it that, probably depends on your feelings around exercise, which are nuanced as I recall. Especially given your allergic to exercise thread. Whatever they are, the foot and ankle exercises are therapeutic and I'm glad you have been getting some movement in, even if it is not the full suite you have been prescribed. Well done. I think you are very wise and resourceful to be finding the strength to do something, instead of concluding that if you can't do the full prescription you may as well do nothing.

 

[HannahOne]

Your feelings are valid! Exercise to you may mean aerobic running. Or whatever kinds of exercise don't work for you, is real. There's certainly a big difference between jogging, and ankle physical therapy movement. I felt I had tripped into a trigger by cheering for general "exercise" and I'm sorry for that. I should have just apologized directly instead of playing with words, I guess thats a defense, I'm a poet and I know it. and I should be a bit more careful what I cheer for.

[Blueberry]

No, I'm sorry Hannah, I'm pretty triggery atm, thin-skinned. Partly i was bouncing off your post with a comment to myself, but it's good you replied and NK too to help me realise I was being self-critical, overly so, which just drives people away.