We are talking about spin control....how to take back control of your life when it's a spinn'! As I have already told you...I have a gold medal in spinning and recovery. WELL I would if it was a recognized international sport! Honestly how could it NOT be because I cannot be the only one who feels like their life starts to spin out of control sometimes. Really...we could have team t-shirt...but I regress :)
Back to dealing with spinning out of control. Step #1 is that you need to breathe. Really breathe deeply to center yourself.
Step #2 is as important. Once you have started to breathe again...you need to reach out. Reaching out helps to steady yourself.
You can reach out in a couple of ways. The first way just involves yourself. You physically raise your arms out to balance yourself. Think it's nuts?! Heh where is your sense of adventure? Honestly it helps -it really does. If you are feeling that you are losing your footing, being knocked off your path..spinning...then you need to balance yourself.
When I was in high school I had a gymnastics class. HATED IT! I went to high school before the Olympics made gymnastics look cool. I went when it felt like it just way to torture yourself before you ended up on the floor mat!
I was very short and having to climb up on the parallel bars was very scary to me. Once I got up there and started to walk and was told you could not look down at your feet...I automatically raised my arms up to help balance myself. And help balance me they did until I panicked and start flailing my arms like a panicked duck...then I soon lost my balance, my footing and crashed. Had I just calmed down, got centered and continued forward I would have made it to the end. But when you are spinning sometimes you need more help...
That brings me to the second way to reach out when your world is spinning...reach out to someone. Whether you do it physically or mentally...you get to choose...but reaching out to someone you trust can help you stop spinning.
They can give you a reality check. Maybe things are not as bad as you think. Or maybe they ARE but they can help you find your balance.
Back to my parallel bars example. When I had someone walking beside me holding on to my outstretch hand..I made it to the end. And after a few times of their help I was able to do it by myself. I gained confidence each time I walked on that parallel bar. And in the end I was able to do it without losing my footing. That hand of support helped me get there. It can help you too if things in your world start spinning.
Here's what is VITAL...you need to reach out for someone who has your best interest at heart. I have people in my life...less and less..put there are still a few that if I would reach out to them I would not put it past them to give me a little tug to make me feel even more unstable.
Hard to believe but it's true...not everyone has your best interest at heart. Their reasons could fill pages and pages and I don't want to spend time on them...this is about us. You just need to use your best instints and reach out for people you trust.
And if they prove to be untrustworthy...well we will deal with that later.
Tomorrow the last step...Step #3.
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