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Laura Rainbow Dragon

Laura Rainbow Dragon

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"Striving to be the change."
PetiteSheWolf said:
It takes some mindfulness to slow down and enjoy the advent / winter season / winter solstice!
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Yup. It also, unfortunately, often takes saying no to people who will get very upset with you if you say no to their Christmas plans. I refused to visit my parents on December 25 one year because I lived a two hour drive away, the only vehicle I had available to me was a pickup truck (with nothing to weight down the back tires), and the roads were super icy. Fishtailing down a 100kph highway (where everyone actually drives at 120+) is not my idea of a good time. So I called my parents and told them I could not come.

My father lost his shit. Both of my parents accused me of all sorts of horrible things. Then I hung up the phone and spent the rest of the day alone in my attic apartment, eating leftovers and watching Xena: Warrior Princess on my tiny little television set (tuned in via the set's rabbit ears). Best December 25 of my life up until that point! Which taught me just how stupid and inappropriate all of the pressures we put on people to do miserable and even dangerous things at this time of year are. It's much easier to be mindful and stay healthy once one has figured this out.
 
TopNotch

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"Motivation is temporary. Discipline is forever."
Fremen said:
I've noticed that I always end up getting sick in December, so there's something wrong. In recent years I've managed to mitigate the end-of-year ailments a lot, but there's still something wrong :P
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People often get sick when they begin to relax, when the majority of the usual stress is off - so basically, when you finally get holidays, you become crook! I would see it as the body's way of rejuvenating (though I can think of nicer ways!), of getting rid of various toxins and of cleansing so as to prepare you for whatever comes next.
Be gentle with yourself and remember that after this troublesome 'rebirth' you will emerge fresh and whole again. Once you've got rid of all the snot.
 
Fremen

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"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
@TopNotch I like your approach, it's optimistic :)
unfortunately between my regeneration and the new year there is Christmas with my parents :P
@Laura Rainbow Dragon my wife and I will celebrate our christmas tomorrow so as not to take any risks with my family :LOL:
 
Fremen

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"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video) [10 min]
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video) [15 min]

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BEFORE LUNCH

Fit December Day 6
One & Done: Butt Kicks Challenge Day 6
Surya Namaskara (5 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

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The flu symptoms seem to be going round in circles in my body but I've organised myself to do the minimum possible so I'm going to take it very easy :)



Have a nice day bees
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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. Patricia Neal
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Fremen

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"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video) [10 min]
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video) [15 min]

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BEFORE LUNCH

Fit December Day 7
One & Done: Butt Kicks Challenge Day 7
Surya Namaskara (5 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

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Today we happily celebrated our Christmas, we pampered ourselves, we had breakfast with pancakes, maple syrup and honey, we turned on all the Christmas lights in the house and opened the presents laughing, Merry Christmas to us :)



Have a nice day bees
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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. Mary Lou Retton
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Fremen

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"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video) [10 min]
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video) [15 min]

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Fit December Day 8
One & Done: Butt Kicks Challenge Day 8
Surya Namaskara (5 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

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Our Christmas went very well, we ended in style with the first Harry Potter film in the evening :)



Have a nice day bees
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For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fremen

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"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video) [10 min]
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video) [15 min]

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Fit December Day 9
One & Done: Butt Kicks Challenge Day 9
Surya Namaskara (5 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

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I really liked @TopNotch 's suggestion that my body is purging to regenerate.
If my body needs to slow down and purge to regenerate, that's okay and it's right that I give it all the help I can.
Which is still much better than thinking that you're sick because you're sick and hoping that it will pass as soon as possible, suffering in the meantime :LOL:
I'm really enjoying Fit December, it's a maximum of 10 minutes of training (without rest), perfect for doing something but without exaggerating, a perfect active recovery :)





Have a nice day bees
:coffee:


Positive thoughts are not enough. There have to be positive feelings and positive actions. Kamari aka Lyrikal
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Fremen

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"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video) [10 min]
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video) [15 min]

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BEFORE LUNCH

Fit December Day 10
One & Done: Butt Kicks Challenge Day 10
50 Push-ups for the ornament
Surya Namaskara (5 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

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Last night we had a very pleasant aperitif with the Muay Thai group from the gym, laughter, jokes, a good time spent together in a light-hearted way, getting to know each other a little better.
It is for this kind of healthy sociality that I go to the gym, not for the class or the training but for the people.
It only took us 3 years to get organized :LOL:
but now the road is open :)





Have a nice day bees
:coffee:


Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore
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Fremen

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"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video) [10 min]
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video) [15 min]

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BEFORE LUNCH

Fit December Day 11
One & Done: Butt Kicks Challenge Day 11
50 Push-ups for the ornament
Surya Namaskara (5 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

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I am almost completely healed but I will continue the regeneration with active recovery, since next week we leave and go to my parents to spend Christmas :)





Have a nice day bees
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Get busy living or get busy dying. Stephen King
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Fremen

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"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video) [10 min]
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video) [15 min]

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Fit December Day 12
One & Done: Butt Kicks Challenge Day 12
50 Push-ups for the ornament
Surya Namaskara (5 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

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I'm really impressed with my ability to stick to the plan of doing 50 push-ups a day during Fit December to earn the ornament :LOL:





Have a nice day bees
:coffee:


I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe
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Fremen

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"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video) [10 min]
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video) [15 min]

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BEFORE LUNCH

Fit December Day 13
One & Done: Butt Kicks Challenge Day 13
50 Push-ups for the ornament :completed:
Surya Namaskara (5 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

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Today I finished earning my spot on Darebee's Christmas tree :)





Have a nice day bees
:coffee:


Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us. Unknown
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Fremen

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Posts: 4,293
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video) [10 min]
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video) [15 min]

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Fit December Day 14
One & Done: Butt Kicks Challenge Day 14
Surya Namaskara (5 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

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The Christmas Regeneration project is going well, I feel good and I like having slowed down a bit :)





Have a nice day bees
:coffee:


The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. Mark Caine
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Fremen

Fremen

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"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video) [10 min]
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video) [15 min]

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Fit December Day 15
One & Done: Butt Kicks Challenge Day 15
Surya Namaskara (5 min)

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

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Since I was very careful to get well before going to visit my 80-year-old parents... they got sick on their own :LOL:
So they will be the ones to make us sick :thinking:




Have a nice day bees
:coffee:


It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress. Jacob (Lost)
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Fremen

Fremen

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Shaman from Italy
Posts: 4,293
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 First Thing Water Challenge
📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video) [10 min]
📌 Wu Qin Xi - (instructional video) [15 min]

°°°

BEFORE LUNCH

Fit December Day 16
One & Done: Butt Kicks Challenge Day 16

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

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Today I made a further downgrade of training that will last for the next few days.
Today there are the big maneuvers before leaving and tomorrow we really leave :)




Have a nice day bees
:coffee:


Passion pushes you to learn more, create more and to create better. Best of all, it’s contagious. Robert T. Kiyosaki
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Fremen

Fremen

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Posts: 4,293
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
For the next few days...

BEFORE BREAKFAST

📌 Five Rites Workout - (instructional video) [10 min]

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BEFORE I FORGET

Fit December (Hall Pass)
One & Done: Butt Kicks Challenge

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BEFORE BEDTIME

📌 Daily Gratitude Challenge
📌 Counting Victories Challenge

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Until I get home my training will be minimal and always the same and that's fine :)
Yes, I'll throw some snowballs, if I can ;)



Have a nice day bees
:coffee:


I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. Herbert Bayard Swope
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Fremen

Fremen

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Posts: 4,293
"“Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.” Percy Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone."
🎄Quick update🎄
Everyone is sick except me.
I have managed to reduce my parents' tantrums with each other to acceptable levels.
Yesterday I helped my dad put up Christmas lights on the house.
This evening my wife and I are going out for dinner at a Japanese restaurant, a healthy couple's outing :)
We have organized lunches and dinners in an optimal way for everyone but I am definitely eating too much.
My wife says I'm much less hysterical than usual when we visit my parents, I'm trying to handle the usual explosive situation sensibly :LOL:
 
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