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“Over a half-century ago, British negotiators learned the power of silence from a negotiator who single-handedly brought the British Empire to its knees. Gandhi also took breaks at regular intervals, during which he remained silent for an entire day. The frustrated Brit who stood waiting for Gandhi on such days was sent home with the message: ‘I am sorry sir, Mister Gandhi has a silence day.’” Radha Kumar’s break, Ode Magazine.

Today was a Gandhi day for me.  Though not quite as silently as the-man-himself might have run his Gandhi days, no, mine was an ‘occasionally silent’ Gandhi day.  After a few days of juggling an unwell son (which I’ll tell you more about soon), and the various projects I’m managing beneath the Happyzine umbrella, I was ready to let it all hang out today. So I got the important stuff done and declared to myself that I was resting.

It wasn’t that easy to relax initially, I felt all wound up, and ready to leap into action, as I had been for the past week and through the weekend.  I tried lying casually in the sun on the deck, but kept twitching with the urge to do something.  It’s funny isn’t it, that sometimes despite exhaustion, it feels almost impossible to slow down?  But slow down I did. Eventually.

It was off to a Bodytalk session today for this girl!  Nicely enough, I have a health clinic across the road, so I didn’t even need to get dressed properly, I just wore my slippers across the road, squinting blindly (being without my contact lenses) at the oncoming traffic.  I love Bodytalk, I found this relatively easy form of deep-healing after a stint of intense counseling, back when I first got all excited about the power of positive thinking.  I thought ‘there must be an easy way to keep moving forward and growing, a way that feels good and is basically extremely easy, whilst being effective, all at once’.  And along came Bodytalk – the chillaxed person’s healing tool.

In today’s session I was informed (by the lovely Tania) that my son’s fever was the result of his Bodytalk session last week, where some work had been done on a cellular level to help him release the effects of a vaccination that either myself or his father or even someone further back up the family tree, had once been given.  Usually his fevers only last twenty four hours, at the most, but this one had hung in there for days.  It was interesting that she said this.  It hadn’t been an extreme fever, but it was a fever all the same, so I was watching him.  He had remained happy and playful all the way through, despite being a hot wee boy.  And I was aware that he was transitioning through something, so this explained things.

As for me, I had my anxiety around ‘not letting people down’ rebalanced, and my’ tendency to go really hard-out’ re-balanced with the needs of my heart.  I thought this all sounded fantastically useful.  I do get a little anxious when people around me are hurting and I can’t help them.  My Grandmother was the same, she was a healer (in a sort of ‘behind the scenes, it’s kinda embarrassing so I’m not gonna talk about it’ way.  Her issue was, she never worked out how to avoid getting all exhausted for days after-wards.  Tania said there must be a line of ‘sensitives’ running down through my family lineage, of which I proud to tell you – I’m one.  I am a sensitive wee button, hence the reason I started a good news website, the negative news was just too much to face everyday.

So now, post a two hour bath, I’m about to go back on duty as a Mama.  This day oughta see me through for another week.  My thanks to Gandhi for reminding me that even people as amazing as him had to step back some days and take it easy.  And my thanks to you, for reading this blog.

Today’s rating: 9/10

PS did you check out the new Ekodo article?  It’s pretty much WAY COOL.

PPS I’ve got a whole swath of amazing articles to post up over the next few days, including a first article from one of my wondrous Positive Writing students, it’s about Mount Everest, and New Zealand, and rubbish, and it is of course, deeply inspiring, keep an eye out for it.

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation (as I raise my gorgeous son and grow my good news website to a subscription base of 100,000 people).  The Low Down on this Blog.

Check out yesterday’s blog.

Tags: chillax, gandhi, rest