Hi Friends,
This morning while I was cooking breakfast for my family I accidentally placed my forearm on a hot fry pan. I got a nasty burn. I went and grabbed my Lavender oil and put it directly on the burn. It is amazing how much it helps burns. My burn does bother me a bit, but the soreness is nothing like it might have been without the Lavender oil.
Then right after I got burned, my daughter Addy came to me with an itchy back. I looked at her back to see what was bothering her and it honestly looked like she had a bad sunburn. Some sort of odd rash. I again went and grabbed the Lavender oil and put it on her back. Within 15 minutes her rash was gone! She went to school itch-free. Pretty amazing huh?!?
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Loving Running
Hello My Friends on this cold and wintery day in Idaho. I am sitting here enjoying a delicious bowl of Grapenuts cereal with fresh blueberries and rice milk....yum! I am cooling down after my run today. It feels wonderful to be running again and having this incredible tool back in my life. I am older (almost 50 people) and so I am taking things very slowly with my running. I am still at only 2 miles per day but this is huge for me. In the next couple of weeks I will begin adding distance again. Today I added running at a harder pace. Here is how I do things:
I first begin by walking for about 2-3 minutes on my treadmill at a pretty quick clip. I stretch before and after my runs too, I forgot to mention that. Then I move my speed up and begin to run. I have some fun music my kids dance to and I cranked it up pretty high and I get going. Running is funny, for the first few minutes I think thoughts like "Why am I doing this....it is too hard today." or "My legs feel like wood! I can not do this right now." But I learned an incredible thing from my great friend Felicia who is an AWESOME runner. She told me "Running is hard, and there are times and days that you just have to push through it and make it happen." So while I am running along about the first 5-8 minutes I think deep thoughts (and pray) then my legs start to loosen up a bit and then I get really enjoying listening to the music or lost in my thoughts and then all the sudden I am at about 15 minutes and I am just sort of gliding at an easy pace. (Me! isn't that amazing!)It is the most incredible feeling to be 50 (almost) and to be running more than 5 minutes...and to be running more than one mile. It is so fun and so exciting. So I keep running for another 10-13 minutes or so. Then I increase my speed and make myself really push hard for about three more minutes and the sweat comes and for a runner, that is sort of a badge really. Ya know the cool runners you see along the road running with sweaty shirts and you think "Wow they are so in shape!" Well I sweat like that each day now! I admit not along the side of the road, but down in my basement in the privacy of my own family room, but even so, it is progress and I am proud of me, and now you can be too cause I am sharing this with you. After I run at a higher pace, I slow it down and run the last 5 or so minutes just back down to my beginning pace, but it feels like I am walking almost. I am loving this. I love running. I am so grateful to be moving again.
Do I have lots of pounds to lose? Yes. Am I rather old to be starting this? Probably, but life is for living and I am living and it feels great!
Have a good day. I need to get a shower and wash off my badge.
I first begin by walking for about 2-3 minutes on my treadmill at a pretty quick clip. I stretch before and after my runs too, I forgot to mention that. Then I move my speed up and begin to run. I have some fun music my kids dance to and I cranked it up pretty high and I get going. Running is funny, for the first few minutes I think thoughts like "Why am I doing this....it is too hard today." or "My legs feel like wood! I can not do this right now." But I learned an incredible thing from my great friend Felicia who is an AWESOME runner. She told me "Running is hard, and there are times and days that you just have to push through it and make it happen." So while I am running along about the first 5-8 minutes I think deep thoughts (and pray) then my legs start to loosen up a bit and then I get really enjoying listening to the music or lost in my thoughts and then all the sudden I am at about 15 minutes and I am just sort of gliding at an easy pace. (Me! isn't that amazing!)It is the most incredible feeling to be 50 (almost) and to be running more than 5 minutes...and to be running more than one mile. It is so fun and so exciting. So I keep running for another 10-13 minutes or so. Then I increase my speed and make myself really push hard for about three more minutes and the sweat comes and for a runner, that is sort of a badge really. Ya know the cool runners you see along the road running with sweaty shirts and you think "Wow they are so in shape!" Well I sweat like that each day now! I admit not along the side of the road, but down in my basement in the privacy of my own family room, but even so, it is progress and I am proud of me, and now you can be too cause I am sharing this with you. After I run at a higher pace, I slow it down and run the last 5 or so minutes just back down to my beginning pace, but it feels like I am walking almost. I am loving this. I love running. I am so grateful to be moving again.
Do I have lots of pounds to lose? Yes. Am I rather old to be starting this? Probably, but life is for living and I am living and it feels great!
Have a good day. I need to get a shower and wash off my badge.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Running...still
It has been almost three months since I started running. When I started I could only run about one minute. I would run one minute and walk 5 until I gradually added more time. I am happy to report that I am now running 30 minutes per day and running over two miles per day. I hope to be running three miles per day six days per week by summer.
I have learned that if I take small baby steps with life, big things can happen. Three months ago I never would have thought I could run over two miles, but now here I am doing it.
I have a long way to go with getting to the fitness level I want to be at but I am going the right direction and that is what really matters.
Running is defining me in many ways. I am currently facing some hard times with some people I love deeply in my life. Running helps me find some sort of peace with it all. Running helps me deal with the grief I have for the loss of my sweet mother. Running works, it is some sort of magical thing in my life I can't really explain how it is saving me but it is.
If you are dealing with hard things, run, you will get better faster...maybe we "run" to our solution in the end. Interesting idea.
I have learned that if I take small baby steps with life, big things can happen. Three months ago I never would have thought I could run over two miles, but now here I am doing it.
I have a long way to go with getting to the fitness level I want to be at but I am going the right direction and that is what really matters.
Running is defining me in many ways. I am currently facing some hard times with some people I love deeply in my life. Running helps me find some sort of peace with it all. Running helps me deal with the grief I have for the loss of my sweet mother. Running works, it is some sort of magical thing in my life I can't really explain how it is saving me but it is.
If you are dealing with hard things, run, you will get better faster...maybe we "run" to our solution in the end. Interesting idea.
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