#25 Rolling With The Seasons

February 21, 2024

Have you ever come back from a vacation and felt a bit disoriented? In this episode we dive in to how to make the most of those situations. We can all use a reset occasionally and a change in our environment can spark some great change within ourselves.

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Episode Transcript

Hello.

Welcome to The Own Your Health Podcast.

I'm Cyndi Lynne, and I can't wait to

help you step into your health power.

So I usually have pretty specific notes that I take that

I use when I want to talk on a particular subject.

I don't want to get sidetracked, which I sometimes do,

wrapped up in a particular point and then miss some

of the things that I really wanted to tell you.

But today I want to share a little bit more in

terms of feelings and an experience that I had recently that

some of you may really be able to relate to.

And I call this rolling with the seasons. And I

call it that because it actually took me a little

while to figure out that that's what was going on,

that that's what I needed to do.

Now, those of you who've been following the

podcast or me for some time, know that

recently, last couple of years, my husband and

I have been spending January in South Carolina.

We spend time with family, we spend time

out of the cold of Minnesota, and it's

just kind of a change in our lifestyle.

And this year was the same.

We had a lovely Christmas in Minnesota.

No snow, fairly warm weather.

I think Christmas dinner, I just wore a light

wrap, not even a coat, and then we left

right after Christmas, went to South Carolina.

Now, South Carolina is great.

It has a variety of weather, and it

does get a little bit colder in winter,

but it's also almost always outside weather.

So you can spend a lot of

time outside in the sun, walking.

You don't have to worry about a lot of

ice and snow, any of that kind of thing.

So spent the month, come back early February

to an unseasonably warm winter here in Minnesota.

Like it was 50 degrees and I was kind of disoriented.

And it took me a little time to even

figure out that's what I was feeling.

Last year, in the past, when we've been away, even on a

vacation, you come back into winter and you step back

into those patterns, what you need to do.

And this was just so different, and it

was kind of like disorientation is the best

word that I can think of for it.

What am I supposed to be doing in this season?

What am I supposed to be working on?

What are the typical house projects?

There was a part of me that wanted

to open the screen porch, drag the cushions

out and start looking for plants.

That's just not going to happen.

It's not going to work well in Minnesota.

But that's where my brain was, because I had daffodils coming

up where I was, and I realized how much the external

cues that we get allow us or demand that we live

within the seasons. And I've kind of discounted that.

I've thought about living within the seasons, especially when

it comes to health, eating seasonally, what's available in

markets, all of those kinds of things.

Yes, that makes a lot of sense, and

that's something that I try to do.

But in terms of exercises, in terms of time outside

in the cold versus time in my sauna, all of

those kinds of things, I've never thought of as being

as seasonal as they really are and how much I

respond to what's going on outside, to what I cook

inside, to when I can walk the dogs.

Because when it's cold like it is today,

I think we're probably in the high teens.

I try to wait until noon or the warmest

part of the day to walk the dogs.

If you're someplace real warm, if you're in South

Carolina and it's going to get quite warm during

the day, you're going to walk in the morning.

This is common sense, but I'm not

accustomed to evaluating that every day.

I kind of evaluate it by season. Oh, yeah.

January, you try to hit midday for the dogs.

February, you try to hit midday.

What's the warmest part of the day?

And some of this is going on automatically

in me, and I never really realized it.

And when I hit this misstep or when

I hit this mismatch where my usual cues

weren't there, it really caused me to pause.

And I realized what I wanted to do is to

do, what am I supposed to be doing now?

I want to plant something.

I want to sit on the porch.

I want to do.

And after a few days of this, even mentioning it

to my husband, he's like, yeah, it's just weird.

I can't kind of get in sync after some time of

sitting with this and journaling about this in the morning saying

what's, you know, am I losing my mind here?

I realized that I just needed to be, not to do.

I needed to be where I was to soak up and

understand where I was. To feel the different light. To feel,

yes, the different temperatures as they've cooled off

again and snow helped because now Minnesota looks

and feels how it's supposed to feel for

where I am in this time.

So all of this is kind of a long share, but

I think a lot of you can relate to this because

I think we get a little taste of it, especially if

you fly someplace very different on a vacation, and you have

that sense of, okay, four or 5 hours ago, I was

in snow, and now I'm in a sandy beach, or a

few hours ago I was perfectly comfortable at 50 degrees, and

now I'm standing on a ski hill.

And you get that little piece of disorientation

when you get the bigger chunks of it

I think it takes a longer

amount of time to re acclimate.

So I wondered how much of, really,

my health follows these automatic cycles.

What do I automatically do or not

do based on the external cues?

And how can I best use the external cues

to make the most of what it is that

I want to accomplish with my health?

I want to accomplish, really is to stay in touch, to keep

that awareness about me so that I can pay attention, so that

I can see, okay, what is it my body needs?

Do I need a little bit of a reset to figure out

what my patterns are, what I want my patterns to be?

Because as we've talked about many times,

owning your health is about intentionality.

Secondly, I wanted to be aware of this

and to pay attention so that I'm not

always trying to do, because that's the default.

I'm uncomfortable.

I need to do something about it.

I'm not sure what I'm feeling, what I'm experiencing.

I want to do something about it.

And sometimes you just need to be for

a little while, you just need to settle

in where you are, and that's really difficult

for some people, and it's counterintuitive.

And if you look at my situation,

I was away for all this time.

I had clients waiting for me,

waiting for appointments at the office.

I was packing in loads of stuff.

And many of you will have experienced

the same thing after a vacation.

It's just this, okay, I got to catch up.

So you almost step on the same treadmill that

you were on before you left the situation, but

it's a little different and it's a little skewed.

So, like most things, when I'm uncomfortable with something and

when I have time to sit with it for a

while, I say, okay, how can I turn this around?

How can I make this work for me?

How can I use this opportunity to

say, all right, something has shifted outside.

It's signaling kind of a shift in me.

Let's not automatically override that

to go back to comfort.

Let's pause, sit with it a bit, and

then really be intentional about what we want

to do with our life at that moment.

Now, this might be one of my I try to

give good examples of things during the podcast or when

I'm explaining something, and this may seem a little bit

vague, but it's because it applies for tiny little things

like your daytime routines, or when you're going to walk

the dog, or really, when I record podcasts, it shifts

and it changes depending on where I am and what

my routine is in that place.

We also have these seasons in life where we

make much bigger changes, where a job is no

longer comfortable, it's not fitting well, it's not quite

right, and we're frustrated with it, or it's not

fulfilling us, or it's boring, or so much has

changed within the particular company we're working on.

That represents kind of a season of your life.

And when you sense that outside shift, it's an

opportunity for you to pause and then intentionally decide

how you want to either react or change course.

And we always have those options.

So this has been, like I said, a little bit more

of a philosophical kind of walk down the podcast scene.

But I know that those of you out there who

can relate to this are going to grab onto it

and hopefully take that moment to pause and say, what's

going on in the season of my life right now?

And what shifts do I see out there?

What shifts can I make intentionally here?

Because owning those feelings, owning that mood, owning those

rolling with the season moments is a really big

part of owning our health in general.

So until next time, let's go out and own it.

#25 Rolling With The Seasons

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