Today is 'chore day'. Not one of my favourite days of the week. I would much rather be drawing, painting, reading or writing in this blog! Oh wait, I am! lol Part of my chores, though, will be one that I think I will enjoy. I will be cleaning out food cupboards and totally reorganizing what I have in there. OUT goes the white sugar and flour, and IN comes the healthy food choices. Not that we have ever been people who ate badly, but really cleaning up our food environment makes it so much easier to stick with the excellent nutrition that I want to be part of my daily life. I bought kale for the first time in my life yesterday! I recently purchased a book called "Super Immunity" by Joel Fuhrman, M.D., who says that kale, (along with collard greens, watercress, brussel sprouts, bok choy, spinach and many others), is among his top 30 super foods that are part of a healthy diet that helps to protect you against diseases. I have a great cookbook that my hubby bought me and there are so many great recipes that I want to try. The book is called "Moosewood Restaurant New Classics" and is a vegetarian cookbook. Today I am going to go through it and decide what recipes I will try out this week.
Of course, all this organization and planning takes a lot of time and effort. Changing my day to day activities has taken off to a different direction as well. One big difference is going on a daily walk. Since our weather here has been great lately, (so unlike a typical Alberta winter), walking in the sunshine is good for the heart and the soul and your mood. Making small and large changes in my life is helping me to cope with all the uncertainty I am feeling at this point. Like that great quote by Anthony Robbins, "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." Changing something about yourself is difficult to do, but if you are faced with any kind of a negative issue in your life, I think it's best to look at where you could improve.
So, I was thinking about something that happened to me more than once and now I am realizing that my body was saying to me..."Pay attention"! Back in 2004 just before I found out about the breast cancer, I had a very big panic attack. It was extremely scary and I just couldn't understand why it has just seemingly come 'out of the blue' like that. I was actually driving at the time, as well. Talk about an intense experience! I was extremely lucky to get home safely! So, that happened one month before I found out about the cancer. Then, just recently, I had another panic attack. It was about a month before I found out that I had a mass on my rib. I am thinking now...that this is NO coincidence. Panic attacks, I think, are a way for the body to tell you that something is going on that shouldn't be. For them to just 'happen' is amazing to me. First time I was driving, second time I was sitting on my bed reading a book.
Anyway, this is just a thought and I have absolutely no medical proof of any kind to back up my statement. But then again, it is my blog. lol
I am going to put up some pictures I took when we were in Victoria, B.C. while visiting good friends of ours last year. These pictures we taken at Butchart's Gardens.
that is interesting that your panic attacks seem to coincide.
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