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Are we lacking community and connection in our lives?
Most of us can relate to the feeling that we don’t get to spend enough time with the people we love. We’ve got busy lives. There are so many different calls on our attention (I recently wrote about one of the major culprits last week). But I think we also know what’s really important.
It’s so easy to get wired in.
Many of us, especially if we work in an office, spend hours every day staring at a computer screen. Then we go home and turn on the television or fire up Netflix, and spend another hour or three decompressing after the day. Of course, this doesn’t even count any time we spend one-on-one with our smartphones.
Many of us grew up with the idea that we need to be hard on ourselves to get ahead. Somewhere along the way, we got it in our heads that the way to succeed is to approach ourselves with a critical, unkind, or even punishing attitude. When we make a mistake, we feel like we need to yell at ourselves.
Most people don’t walk into a chiropractic office until they are in pain.
So often, we don’t think much about our health until something goes wrong. It’s easy to get caught up in other things, or to put caring for ourselves on the back burner. Only when we get sick or start to experience serious pain do we seek help.
You’ve heard the old phrase “spring cleaning.” When the trees begin to green and the flowers start to bloom, the energy in the air becomes electric and we may find ourselves motivated to take on the projects we’ve been putting off all winter. It’s a good time to open all the windows, sweep out the dust bunnies from under the bed, and make space for the new.
Sports start really young!
There are yoga classes for mom’s and babies (fun for both!), toddlers and beyond. Children begin soccer, baseball, swim team, skiing, martial arts, tennis, and pre-ballet, for example, as young as 4 or 5 years old. Sports such as basketball, football, track, lacrosse, hockey, rock climbing, archery and fencing typically start around age 8, though the natural athlete may start sooner. Tiger Woods is said to have been fascinated with golf at 6 months old!
