Posted July 4, Reviewed by Kaja Perina. Now what? Here are some questions you might ask of your lists, solo or in conversation, to help them help you do good thinking, maybe planning, and definitely appreciating. If you do some classifying of the items within your looking-after category, what do you find? The first interesting thing to do might be to sort this list into as many themes as make sense.
For me, there are probably seven: movement, stillness, posture, manipulations, clothing, skincare, and food and drink. Then you can look at relative numbers e. This brings us to questions about frequency. What kind of balance do you have between little things you do most days, medium-sized weekly or twice-weekly things, and either regular or sporadic things at lower frequency?
Of course, the list of ill-advised body-damaging things you could in theory be doing is technically endless, but it may feel nice to highlight any where the norm is otherwise or where your decision to do things this way feels particularly deliberate. What can you discover in your daily routines that involve the specific kind of looking-after that comes from rejecting commonplaces?
Your rejections, in times of change, may be very actively of things that past you used to do. Perhaps the most important thing about this list is how it makes you feel when you read it. These might include wholly new things e. Or they might be new approaches to old familiar things e.
I could make a point of doing a bit of foam rolling when I get home on my bike. But they can also just stay random and hard to classify! How it stacks up in overall size relative to the looking-after list is an easy metric to begin with. Doing a new version then, before comparing it with your first one, could be quite revealing. There are so many influences created by other humans that encourage us to ignore and mistreat our bodies.
