The Noble Pagan Forums - Freeze...Putting Time On Hold

It's been a long day with a whirlwind of activity so blurringly paced that by the end of it you are not even sure what you did. You probably feel tired, maybe even exhausted or irritable.
Did you take time out today for yourself?
I know... WHAT kind of question is that right? After all you are not even sure if you forgot anything important, accomplished all goals set, or when the sun punched the clock in to call it a night.
It's important though no matter HOW hectic your schedule or lifestyle is that you take a little bit of time out for yourself. This allows you to relax, unwind, and get back in pace with all the things that you raced by( and by the way ..... sleeping does NOT count as "down time").
With only 24 hours in a busy day though, how do you cram in that "me" time. You don't "cram" it in. You make room for it ( even if this means gently letting something else take the back burner for a moment).
Do you enjoy reading? Then set aside some time to enjoy a chapter. You owe yourself that much.
Are you a Nature person? Then make time to see the sun rise, or set, or enjoy the stars that come out at night. Maybe take a walk in a park ( or on a trail if you are lucky). Too tired? Then just sit on your porch or in your yard and just breathe it in. It's raining though! Then let your inner child come out and splash in the rain or play in a puddle. Whatever helps you de-stress.
Too tired to read? Have no energy for some outdoor fun? Then take 30 minutes to just soak ( or shower).Treat yourself with a favorite scent ( bubbles, satchets, salts, bodywash, etc). A scent that says "Ahhhhhhhhh". A half of an hour a day dedicated to just YOU is really nothing to feel guilty about.

So next time you are rushing about hurry scurry and willy nilly.....take thirty seconds to make a plan....to freeze time for yourself sometime in your day. After all you deserve it.

C.S.

I am horrible at doing this. By the time my day has settled, I'm too exhausted to pamper myself-- unless sleep counts?

You have been my 'self pamper' for the last week. Talking to you is my treat-- talking to someone as smart if not more so than myself and enjoying company even at a distance.

It's her shift this week ... Mine's coming ... I can feel it ...

LMFAO I feel like I'm being passed around.

It's an inside joke with us. My shift may not include a particular person, but may be part of a particular event or subject etc. Her's tends to deal with emotions and targets *ducks and runs*.

She is currently working with me. As she says "I'm on her shift".

I think this weekend I'll do some cleaning...and then...a hot bath...and then flail in clean sheets.

This sounds like paradise to me.

Lol!
You are so on my shift hun.
I wish I could explain it so others can understand it better......I will try...
Sometimes a person needs help ( the type can vary from emotional, spiritual, physical whatever). Sometimes when I come in contact with that person ( phone,net, in person whatever) I get this "ping" that means whatever it is they are needing ( and I am not remotely clear at the time WHAT it is they need) I can help them with it.
Sometimes it's a few bucks. A meal. An ear. Some laughter. Advice or a finger pointing in some direction. Each person is different. Each situation is different ( even if it be the same person).
I could no more turn a person with that "ping" away than I could survive without oxygen. I wish I could explain it.
At any rate years ago it sorta made me feel like a free lancing volunteer caseworker of sorts...... as this sort of thing happens a lot with me ( usually and oddly enough in streaks).... so I have come to terming these occasions as "being on shift".
This has happened so much that even my husband knows that if I am on the puter, phone, or with a person in person and I tell him "I'm on shift" he knows to leave me be until I have some down time to address what he was asking me. LOL!
I tend to get people on my shift.
CR tends to get projects. LOL!

I hope that makes some sense.

Any ways......I like your idea of just sitting back and flailing in some sheets. Whatever makes you feel relaxed. For me it's mah bubblez bath. I love my bathtime and I pimp it out with bubbles and incense. People know better than to bug me with anything when I am taking my MY time ( because the only other me time I get is sleeping and that do na count as I have been told and pass on as sage advice ).

BTW CR.....The UnderCurrent of PAGANY in the Universe is trying to kill me. Maybe your shift comin up because I gonna needs to be talkinz to you soon.

*enter suspenseful musix*

C.S.

Can I be in on someone's shift? I need some lovin'... :laugh:

Seriously, though- personal down time is a must. I do in fact love to read. I'm mostly done with Word Without End. It's damned near as good as Pillars Of The Earth! (World Without End is the sequel.) It takes place in 13th century England, right as the Black Death hits. The author does a great job of making you understand what it might have been like to live through the religious hysteria of the time, and the horror of the plague.

Mood has changed from gloomy to drunk. The Reverend is hammered.

Lol. Drunk is a good mood sometimes ... Mmm ... Blue spider.