Healthy

I’m currently feeling:
Unattractive.

My thoughts creating this feeling:
I was sneezing and coughing so much yesterday. The act of sneezing is so unelegant and having to blow my nose so often has left it red and sore. I feel frumpy and like I don’t want to go anywhere or do anything other than wrap up under a blanket and sleep. The rest of me feels fine. I don’t have any other aches, apart from my chest muscles from all the sneezing. I don’t have a blocked up nose, even though it sounds like it. My eyes do feel a bit heavy and puffy but that’s often the case anyway. It’s just there’s nothing attractive about being full of cold.

My desired feeling:
Healthy.

Thoughts to practice to create my desired feeling:
Even though I’m full of unattractive cold, I still want to try to be healthy by making sure I drink plenty of fluids, go for a walk, well wrapped up, and go about business as usual as much as possible. I’m not one for taking medication for colds as I think it just prolonges it, so I tend to let nature do her thing, and ride it out, however I did take a Lemsip last night before bed to help with a good night’s sleep, which helped. I do have my multivitamins and prescribed vitamin D, as normal. I don’t generally become a slave to being ill.

I’ll show up on purpose in my dress, body language and presentation by:
Keeping warm is top priority today. Going into town later, then bellringing carol service this afternoon. Blue jeans and thickish jumper, not too thick so it doesn’t fit under my coat, or I can’t ring in it. Basic jewellry for practicality. Gold stud teardrop earrings from Tiffanys in New York C bought me when he was on a work trip over there several years ago. Need to be chirpy and happy meeting people at the carol service and pretend I like sitting through services. I’m sure there’ll be plenty of people to talke to. My Dad will probably be there too.

I will show up for myself by:
Practicing tomorrow’s peal and quarter peal methods on the computer. One is a refresh so shouldn’t take long, the other is a complete new method to learn from scratch. I’ll do my best.

I will show up for my extraordinary goal by:
Playing my role at the carol service and trying to hint that I would prefer not to stand as Deputy Master again this year if someone would take it on, but if not, I’ll do one more year as notice period, then stop.

I will upgrade my surroundings by:
Time to buy some new fresh flowers. Very christmassy stock and leaves available this time of year, which somewhat limits choice but look forward to seeing what they have and what I could create.

Today I am:
Trying to be elegant and feminine whilst coughing and sneezing.

Today I am grateful for:
The workshop I attended yesterday as part of my coaching course. It was good to finally get into some learning and there was a phrase used that resonated with me regarding my EG. It came from The Chimp Paradox by Steve Peters that said “The person you want to be is the person you really are “.