Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Whack and Un-Whack



Sometimes we get out of whack.  Our usual healthy routines of eating and sleeping and moving get disrupted by a family celebration or disaster, a work deadline, an injury, or even something as pervasive as extra traffic.  We get tired, stressed, irritable, over-caffeinated, and generally unpleasant.  And that makes it all the harder to take that first deep breath and start again.

I confess that I don’t remember a lot about my physics class from high school, but at least one important concept stuck:  inertia.  In most contexts, we use half of what inertia is:  a body at rest tends to remain at rest.  Here’s the good news:  the other half is that a body in motion tends to remain in motion.  What that means is that we just need to get started.  We can dig deep and find just enough oomph to start our metaphorical ball rolling and then it will get easier.

We can do it.

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