This is my time. Time to renew myself, to come back to me.Time just to be. Time to reflect on how I’m living my life, what I want to keep and what I want to change. Sometimes being sick is an opportunity to reascess. It lets me slow down enough to pay attention, to tune into my life long enough so I can feally feel it.I have images floating through my mind. If I pay attention, they tell me what I’m doing that’s too much for me.And they quietly point the way towards what I’d like to experience more of if I pay attention. The images that make me feel a little frantic, I will take a closer lookat. Am I pushing too hard? Does my attitude need to change or is it the activity itself that’s out of balance?

A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter