I have a headache. I know why. It's not because I couldn't sleep last night due to nervousness about the test I am going to have on my leg today. It's not because I haven't been drinking enough water or too much water. I didn't even drink any alcohol yesterday. No. My headache is because I think too much.
That sounds funny, I know. But it's true. Have you ever had so much running through your head that it literally gave you a headache? I have...frequently. Whether it's stuff going on at work, home or social life, it all seems to come back into the head in the evenings leaving me with one whopping of a weird dream and a headache in the morning. Why does this happen? Why does my head fill with so much that it lead to the headache? Because I allow it to.
I know that sometimes we fill our live with so many things we force ourselves into these predicaments. Sometimes though, we have no option. Our health, our family, or environments all need attention and the responsibility falls on us. Sure we can take time out for ourselves to try to recoup, but most of us don't have the luxury of doing that every day. While my dream in life would be to sit in my log cabin (a dream yes...) out in the country somewhere surrounded by nothing but nature and write my novels that is not a reality. I have responsibility right now that I can't avoid. I have to think about others in my life. Thus...the headache.
So, I guess today I am not saying that I am going to work more on clearing my head or anything like that. Rather, I am going to just deal with it. I will eventually take something for it (Tylenol, Excedrin or whatever later that I can't take right now due to a procedure/test in a few hours.). Sometimes we just have to allow those headaches to happen. It helps us acknowledge that we are human, that sometimes we don't need to take on the world on our shoulders and that we need to take some time out for ourselves.
Headaches...they are a part of life. They happen. Life happens. Today is about life happening. And I am just going to let it. It keeps me on my toes.
Dang it, I lost my comments again. When will I learn? Getting back to it. I suggested that you get a timer. OH NO Dawn, not the timer again. Yes, the timer. Set it for 10 minutes which is all that is allowed for chaotic thinking. Reset it for 10 minutes and go to the log cabin you speak of with all of nature surrounding you. See if that doesn't allow you time to calm down.
ReplyDeleteWell, here's the thing; if you go to your doctor complaining of a headache, they will give you a prescription that is meant to cure it; If you go to your chiropractor with the same, he will bend your neck all around claiming that he/she can cure it; and if you go to your acupuncturist, they stick needles into your body saying that this will cure it. On the other hand, I found that with me, I developed a dependence on aspirin. When I didn't take it, my headaches would return. When I finally decided to stop taking aspirin, my doctor told me to take aspirin for my heart. I can't win for losing, but I do only take the 88 mg baby aspirin for my heart, so it isn't near as bad as 2 tabs of the high potency aspirin that I used to take all the time. Now I rarely have a headache. And if I do, it's usually because of something specific that causes it; too much sunshine, using the computer all day, etc.
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