Me Time ✨

Hello everybody. Happy Sunday. Jane Mitchell's here, coming into you from Joshua Tree, California. Just hold space as we come in. We'll invite you to take a deep breath. Trying to find a place maybe over here, taking a little mean time. My invitation to you when you come in, whether you're listening on replay and if you are listening on replay, really cool, type in the comments that you're replaying in. My invitation to you is to simply take a breath, one long inhale, one exhale, just allowing yourself to be present in this moment, in this space.

So I am calling to you, dialing in, joining us, creating space for us from Joshua Tree, California. And I'm out here on a little mini retreat. I took a leap of faith to come to a retreat with that I'd never heard of. Only a friend of mine had attended one before and quite honestly I signed up for it probably six or seven months ago and literally had forgotten that I had signed up until only a few weeks before the retreat when I started getting all of these emails saying can't wait to see you. And it just reminded me as I'm here, a few things.

You know, we get so busy in our days that we forget about ourselves. We have good intentions to do things for ourselves and if we wait until the day of that intention for ourself might not come right because we get so busy and things can happen and there's a rush of everything. So my invitation right now is what is one thing you can do for yourself in the future, for your future self? So as I mentioned, I signed up for this retreat back in March. I didn't know what I was doing, I didn't know who I was going to meet, I didn't know what my life was going to be like.

But I signed up in advance and then I forgot about it and I showed up here and it was exactly what I needed to just take a time away from myself. And as I mentioned in post before, retreating is really about treating yourself. So what is a treat that you might give to your future self? Do we ever think about that? I don't think about that enough. So if we think a month from now, what would we say to ourselves? If we think six months from now, what would we tell our future self? I've heard opportunities for us to go back as we're healing traumas or healing ourselves to go back and tell our our past self.

What would we tell our past self? We tell them that we love them or we tell them that we're proud of them. But I Invite us to think forward. What will we tell our future self? My future self. I tell her to slow down. Busy. I would tell my future self that she's beautiful. I tell my future self that she is courageous for all the things she's about to do, and some of them are going to be hard. And I don't even know what those things are. We just know that life will toss us plot twists. I would tell my future self to book that trip, whatever that trip is that she's thinking about, that she's unsure about, whether it's with a group of people or just by herself.

I'd tell her to book the trip. I'd tell my future self to take the class. If you feel it in your gut, it's something you're curious about, take the class. You'll figure it out. You always do. So today when we talk about me time, it's about pulling in perspectives. And the perspective I just offered up to you was your future self. I, on this retreat, have been uncomfortable in a few different ways. I've been uncomfortable because I did a polar plunge, a cold plunge. I like warm. I take out baths almost every single night.

Cold. It's hard because my body temperature is typically cooler by a degree or two than the average temperature. And I have a really slow heartbeat, which is a good thing. But also, it's like I can get a little cold. But I did it. And they say that the therapeutic benefits are somewhere between a minute to five minutes. So I challenged myself to just stay in it for five minutes, and I made it and I breathed and I focused on my breath and I got cold and I changed my body so that the cold water would hit my body differently.

And I did it and we celebrated. And then I got out and I naturally warmed up my body because I didn't realize that that was important versus just jumping in a hot tub. And then I considered what might be the benefits if I did it again, not only psychologically, but physically. And so I got into a pool that's outside because I'm in Joshua Tree, California, and it's 55 degrees, so it's chilly, windy. The water in this outdoor pool and this place that we're staying for, this retreat is cold and it's outside, it's really cold.

The water temperature was somewhere between 50 and 50. And I did it. I got in the pool and I stayed in for five more minutes, and then I was done. What wasn't important that I did or accomplished the five minutes, the fact was I got out of my head and I got into my body and I allowed myself to do something that is actually really healthy for me. But I was so in my head about it that I wanted to try to see if I could do that for myself, not for anybody else. It wasn't for anybody else on the retreat, wasn't to brag or say anything.

It was really just about whether or not I could get out of my head enough to allow myself to be present and do this thing. And so I did. We did yoga this morning. For all you people that do yoga, I love you. I am not that girl. It's hard. It's really hard. But I realized that I can do hard things. And I realized that I probably need to do more yoga. And not for any reason other than allow myself to be slow, to move slow. I move a lot. I love to move. It's how I think. It's how I create. It's what feels good.

So what if I changed my pace and I just slowed down and I moved slower? So today, on me time, I'm just offering you a few invitations. Two. First, one, what would you tell your future self? And be kind with those words, because words matter. And what you tell your future self right now will have a butterfly effect, a ripple effect into that future. And two, how might you find something that is good for you, that might make you really uncomfortable, but it will shift your perspective? Find what's out there for you.

Maybe it's a thermal culture. Maybe it's a polar plunge. Maybe it's taking a filling your bathtub with ice water and taking a cold bath with ice cubes in it. Maybe it's just sitting outside and breathing and putting your phone down and not having earbuds and just listening to the wind and the birds. So those are my two invitations to you today for me time. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day and I'll see you soon.