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There is no malady in medicine that is called “feeling weird”. It’s not about dyeing your hair orange and wearing strange clothes. It’s about that feeling that something just isn’t right. Maybe it just happened this morning or maybe it is a familiar but unwelcome guest that shows up unannounced way too often.
You know how it starts. Something doesn’t feel right so you take a personal inventory and hope to find a cause to treat. Is it a bug, a nutritional deficiency, the beginning of the end, etc., etc. Far too often there is no answer and fast on the heels of “feeling weird” comes anxiety who is more than happy to take “feeling weird” to the next level.
The next level is the unholy trinity of feeling weird, anxiety and fear. At this point your mind is flooded with dark possibilities and only dark possibilities. You reach for anything that is floating because you feel like you are drowning. Maybe it’s prayer or maybe it’s food or drugs or alcohol or sleep or anything to reclaim a better feeling. The battle is on.
But is battling the answer? Do we want to fight this feeling? Do we want to declare war on our anxiety and fear? Do we want to be in the ring with an adversary who is familiar to us but who has unknown abilities? Has it worked before?
How about we try something different? How about we stop battling and start building. How about we focus not on what is wrong but about what needs rebuilding? Can we honestly answer some questions?
For instance, are we sitting too much? Are we actively pursuing wellness? Are we walking, exercising and breathing in a productive, conscious way? Are we filling our minds and our environment with beauty? Are we focusing on that which brings us joy? Are we getting enough sleep, enough touching and enough smiles and laughter?
Focusing on building wellness is not going to empty the hospitals or even make you immune to “feeling weird” but it will change your perspective. It will give you hope. And maybe, just maybe it will give you the clarity and the courage to see and take the next step in building a more content and powerful you. In building we have possibilities. In battling we always have the fear of losing.
Ask yourself – Where can I be building instead of battling? Health? Relationships? Self esteem? Whatever the answer, build don’t battle.
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