Houses of Healing

Between Activity Recovery Rituals

Do you find yourself continually on the move? As soon as one activity is complete, you are already into the next thing. Non-stop action can be a detriment to good mood and energy management.

The time between activities is critical to maintaining good mood and energy management and adequate healthy recovery. Any time between meetings, phone calls, events and activities is not wasted, dead time, it is the essential renewal and preparation time that ensures that you are not pushing or stressing your body past its limits. Between activity recovery can be conscious rest and renewal in preparation for the next wave of activity.

Between activity recovery rituals allow your mind, body, and spirit to synchronize. These rituals allow you to become complete with your just finished activity, to process and integrate the experience, and allow space and time to gain insight from your actions.

Between activity recovery rituals pave the way for you to be fully present and focused on your upcoming activity. The more present you are in your current action the more of yourself you bring into what you are doing and the less drag you create for yourself and those around you. Being present fosters full access to your wisdom and strengths.

Some questions to help guide you in designing your Between Activity Recovery Rituals:

• What can you do after phone calls to recover and prepare for the next action?
• What can you do between meetings to recover and prepare for the next action?
• What can you do during the day to take recovery breaks and prepare for the next wave of activity?
• What rituals and routines regarding timing activities do you use to keep your mood and energy at their peak throughout the day?
• Do you follow any trained recovery program to keep your mood and energy at their peak?

Are Women Still Different Than Men?

Despite politically correct notions, I find that women are different from men and have a distinct function in the world. Generally, women still hold the ancient and traditional position of being the gatekeepers and caretakers of families - in all their varied forms.

Before I get all those flaming comments of protest - Sure there are exceptions and I’m glad to see them. I wholeheartedly support a woman’s right to take on any role. And men have an equally valid and important – but different role in the family. (It is just not my job to work with them.)

It is fundamentally woman’s work to raise, shape, and form the family structure and it is a full time job. Now that it has become the societal norm for both parents to work full time on jobs other than raising the family – Who cares for the shaping and forming of the family structure? Who cares for the mother attempting to do both jobs?