Listen to Your Body?
Oct. 9th, 2005 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebThere are many situations where it is recommended that one listen to one's body. For example, if you are jogging and your knee starts to hurt, you should stop. Or if you start panting way too fast, you should slow down. If you are hungry you should eat, and when you are full you should stop eating. Thirsty? Drink. Sleepy? Sleep. Excruciating pain? Call the doctor. Hand burning? Yank it off the hot thing. Stressed? Take a break, or at least take some deep breaths.
Listen to your body to see when your blood sugar's off, when you're getting too stressed, and what foods you're allergic to.
These are great. But I'm starting to suspect there are times you are not supposed to listen to your body. Actually, I know it--you're not supposed to scratch mosquito bites continuously, even though that feels so good. But that is because other species are subverting our system for their own uses or something.
I suspect our own bodies don't always communicate so great. Now that I think about it, I know this too because horniness is not always something you should be listening to.
Today I was trying to download a program (still am) and it didn't work because it couldn't find something. After that, each time I try it locks up. (I hate that the one time I want to cancel something is the one time I can't--when it's locked up. Stupid computers.) I think it was the increasing level of frustration that made me think I really, really wanted a nap.
Lying down for the nap felt really good. I had planned to try a short nap next time I wanted a nap because normal naps are no good for me (I wake up feeling much worse, and then can't sleep at night). But I forgot if it's supposed to be 15 minutes or 30 minutes, and my secondary alarm clock didn't have a good battery. Basically, for a lot of stupid reasons, I just went to sleep without setting an alarm. I ended up with a 40-minute nap, directly followed by a 30-minute nap. I awoke feeling sleepy, but not worse. After being up a while I felt better. As soon as I sat down at the computer again, I started feeling sleepy again.
And the whole time I haven't felt like I had the energy to do very simple things that I want to have done by the end of the weekend, like do laundry, make something to eat, do some cleaning, and figure out a menu for the next week so I can figure out a shopping list.
At times like these, I probably should not listen to my body and sleep all day or play solitaire all day or whatever. I should just power through the things I need to do.
So far I've gotten a meal cooked and eaten, got one load washed and on the laundry lines and another load in the washer. It's just not really that hard.
Listen to your body to see when your blood sugar's off, when you're getting too stressed, and what foods you're allergic to.
These are great. But I'm starting to suspect there are times you are not supposed to listen to your body. Actually, I know it--you're not supposed to scratch mosquito bites continuously, even though that feels so good. But that is because other species are subverting our system for their own uses or something.
I suspect our own bodies don't always communicate so great. Now that I think about it, I know this too because horniness is not always something you should be listening to.
Today I was trying to download a program (still am) and it didn't work because it couldn't find something. After that, each time I try it locks up. (I hate that the one time I want to cancel something is the one time I can't--when it's locked up. Stupid computers.) I think it was the increasing level of frustration that made me think I really, really wanted a nap.
Lying down for the nap felt really good. I had planned to try a short nap next time I wanted a nap because normal naps are no good for me (I wake up feeling much worse, and then can't sleep at night). But I forgot if it's supposed to be 15 minutes or 30 minutes, and my secondary alarm clock didn't have a good battery. Basically, for a lot of stupid reasons, I just went to sleep without setting an alarm. I ended up with a 40-minute nap, directly followed by a 30-minute nap. I awoke feeling sleepy, but not worse. After being up a while I felt better. As soon as I sat down at the computer again, I started feeling sleepy again.
And the whole time I haven't felt like I had the energy to do very simple things that I want to have done by the end of the weekend, like do laundry, make something to eat, do some cleaning, and figure out a menu for the next week so I can figure out a shopping list.
At times like these, I probably should not listen to my body and sleep all day or play solitaire all day or whatever. I should just power through the things I need to do.
So far I've gotten a meal cooked and eaten, got one load washed and on the laundry lines and another load in the washer. It's just not really that hard.