I hope you remembered to put your clocks back overnight and you aren’t wondering what time it actually is??

It always takes a few days to get over the change with our clocks no matter which way they go … for me anyway, as Keith says — no matter what way they change, we will still feel tired 😳

It does mean of course that November and December are fast approaching so it’s about getting our minds and bodies prepared for the Winter and for that time of year (which will go unnamed in this Newsletter as yet!).  However, I do talk about this a little more in Your Whole Self this week — see below.

As mentioned in the introduction above, November and December are fast approaching, and I think it is a good time of year to step up the taking care of self, and I am not just talking about exercise. 

I think it is also about allowing ourselves to take a step back saying no to the demands and expectations we place on ourselves sometimes. 

I was reminded about this earlier in the week, after feeling a bit blah recently.

I have felt tired but not able to sleep, and generally my enthusiasm has dipped. Anyone else feeling like this?  

Chatting this through with a fellow teacher we started to talk about having a sense of hibernation when it gets colder and darker. 

Now as I am not a hedgehog — these have all disappeared from the track where I walk, so I can only assume they have already gone into hibernation — I can’t really hibernate and go into hiding completely, but there are things that I can do for myself to help. 

Usually I journal every day, I meditate every day — two things that I have used regularly to support me and yet I am doing them without conscious thought at the moment so the question is are they helping me? … Well obviously not. So I am taking a step back, a short break from these two things, things that I do to push myself that suddenly aren’t serving me as they were. 

They may seem small but they are taking me away from being and have become things I am doing. There are other things that I will look at over the next few weeks to ease off from myself for a bit.

If you are experiencing a time of feeling blah, perhaps you may be able to identify some things you do regularly in your life that aren’t helping you to be, so why not start to explore putting different things in place to serve you better?

When we come out of hibernation we will start to feel renewed, with better energy, and our enthusiasm will be back, so show ourselves appreciation and gratitude now and keep supporting ourselves.

Have a great week folks, and I look forward to hearing your hibernation stories!

Keep moving, keep looking and feeling good.

With love

Jane xx