The weather has been yo-yoing up and down in temperature, teasing us with glimpses of a thaw and then smashing us with snow again. I was doing fine with this until today, when I just feel particularly "off" and migrainous.
On the one hand, being out of an office job makes this much easier. Most of my day is very active - moving among people and places, using my entire body to sing, focusing on where to go with staging, and being completely engaged with people. It's a very different existence from parking myself in front of a computer screen, trying to generate content and ideas and mold them into some sort of cohesive PowerPoint. I no longer feel myself digging deeply just to muster enough oomph to keep going.
On the other hand, because I'm now much more aware of my entire body as my instrument, I feel more keenly the times when I'm not entirely "aligned." I try to stay away from caffeine because I sharply notice my muscles tensing under its reaction. That means I don't really have that "energy boost" as a go-to. Instead, I'm more likely to just let myself be when I feel tired. A good thing in some ways, but definitely not as "productive" as I used to be.
Of course, that begs the question of whether "being productive" should really be the ultimate goal and value in life anyway.
All that to say that I hope the weather settles down soon, even if that means we're back into a consistency of cold. In the meantime, I'll try to add more tea, yoga, and sleep to my life. Mmm.
~Hope
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