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By Peg

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Bring Your Spirit to Work

On her Facebook page this morning, life coach and friend Marilyn Lynch Carpenter reminds me that my work effectiveness is impacted by the health of  mind, body and spirit, then asks where I’m spending my time on mind-body-spirit fitness.

I wish I had a better answer.

Here is what I know about me: Mind and body fitness follow fitness of spirit.

If my spirit is not in a healthy spot, I don’t give my body or my mind what they need for fitness. I don’t walk. I don’t do yoga. I don’t sit on my patio and breathe in nature. I don’t find the joy in tearing tender lettuce onto a plate with avocado, goat cheese, sweet peppers, tomatoes, sunflower seeds, so I tend to eat things I’d rather not admit right out here in public. I feed my brain reruns of Law & Order instead of the books or music or movies that allow my spirit to flourish or give it something of substance to chew on.

It all starts with my spirit, then spills over into mind and body. And when I don’t nurture mind and body, spirit is fed in ways that promote dis-ease instead of health. So the cycle can become a downward spiral.

So I must start by spending time on things that lift my spirit: meditation, reading that inspires me, good companions, time under the sky, slowing mind and body with yoga, WDAV and WNCW (Bach and bluegrass work for me), rooms of people speaking spirit, a cat that sleeps on my neck.

When I start there, mind and body fall into place and work effectiveness takes care of itself.

What feeds your spirit?

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6 Responses

  1. Kelley April 26, 2010 | 3:35 pm

    I think that is a perfect answer! And, how true it is. I just wish it didn’t require so much discipline for me to do the things that feed my spirit.

    One of the things that feeds my spirit: I run w/o the distraction of music piped into my head. The quiet works as a rigorous moving meditation and I talk w/ God. I love the time spent doing this.

  2. Peg April 26, 2010 | 10:00 pm

    I love hearing that you run without blocking the world out with music. Music is wonderful, but when I’m out walking it’s a wonderful opportunity for me to get out of my head and just be…a moving meditation is so right, Kelley.

  3. MarkSpizer May 3, 2010 | 2:38 am

    great post as usual!

  4. Peg May 3, 2010 | 7:18 am

    Thanks, Mark!

  5. Brenda May 4, 2010 | 6:49 pm

    I love “time under the sky”. Not only do I love the phrase, I love the act of spending “time under the sky”. Time under a canopy of trees pulls me into a place of nostalgia, a place of God-ness where squirrels can quarrel and I don’t mind. Somehow, their bickering is just my “comedy hour”, and with the birds hanging on to the wind with their own sweet music, I realize that I am, indeed, one with the Universe. This leaves me refreshed, and ready to face anything that might come across my path, for that day. Peg, thanks for reminding me to spend more time “under the sky”!

  6. Brenda May 4, 2010 | 6:50 pm

    I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS BLOG SITE! IT’S BECOME MY FAVORITE!



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