The past week has been distressing, to say the least.
When I am agitated and upset, I depend on two things to calm myself: yoga and drawing. To practice yoga, I must inhale and exhale repeatedly, regularly, fully, focusing on making the poses that connect body with mind. To draw, I must focus completely on the form I see and the form I am making, a continual rhythm between body and mind, back and forth, like breathing. They both take my thoughts away from the source of the distress and bring me back to the here and now, my own body and mind.
After reading and viewing too much news, I walked around the neighborhood and made a sketch. Then I came home and unrolled my yoga mat. Inhale, exhale, repeat.
Yoga and sketching help...for the minute, but then life smacks you in the head again. This past week started off so good with the election, but then it was downhill from there. How do me make it until the 20th? He scares the hell out of me.
ReplyDeleteI'm really scared too, Joan... inhale, exhale, repeat.
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