Life? What is life? How is it that I am here? I am here due to a rhythim. We are all here due to the many different rhythms of life. It is these very rhythms that all of life is perfect, even though imperfect. Most rhythms of life however we are not aware of. Life has a pulse, a rhythmic, wavelike movement between activity and rest. The ebb and flow of the tides, the movements between seasons, and the daily rising and setting of the sun. Likewise, all organisms follow life-sustaining rhythms;birds migrating, bears hibernating, squirrels gathering nuts, all guided by rhythms-both those dictated by nature and those encoded in our genes. Our breathing, brain waves, body temperatures, heart rates, hormone levels and blood pressure. all have healthy or unhealthy rhythmic patterns. We are oscillatory beings in an oscillatory universe.
Full engagement requires cultivating a dynamic balance between the expenditure of energy {stress} and the renewal of energy {recovery} in all dimensions. The rhythmic wave is called oscillation it represents the fundamental pulse of life.

But when that natural rhythm is interrupted the following can happen;
A centipede was happy quite,
Until a frog in fun said,
'pray which leg comes after which?'
This raised her mind to such a pitch,
She lay distracted in the ditch.

We too are at times, thrown into a ditch when sicknesses, pain, a change in life, strikes. Our natural rhythms, or what we perceive as our rhythm of life, is thrown off course. I cannot tell you what to due, for we each have a unique rhythm. What works for me may not help you. What to do then? Understand your own rhythm. Understand your own body. Know your limits, your pain, your purpose, simply know your unique rhythm and work in harmony with that rhythm.

Helen Keller once said
"I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
I will not refuse to do the something I can do."

With a wink and a nod, HeWal