LOVING ENDURANCE is the best way to move through all kinds of challenges, large and small!

I’ve got a bit of a cold today. First time I’ve caught anything like that for well over a year. I have some body aches and pains, I’m a bit woolly-headed, and I’d really rather be in bed. But there are things to do. This blog, newsletters, socials, business tasks, consults with people on Zoom, meals to cook, and of course our lovely animals to care for.

Loving endurance is how I get through and get what needs to be done in the gentlest, kindest, and most enjoyable way possible. I don’t push too hard. I rest when I need to. I back off on my regular fitness and exercise programs (though, and this is IMPORTANT, I don’t stop them altogether). I will cancel things if I need to, depending on what the challenge I’m facing is, and how sick I am.

I do what I can in a way that doesn’t make things worse. I care for myself, listen to my body, adapt and change everything that I can to make it as easy as possible for me to keep on going at a slower, gentler pace.

Loving endurance isn’t only about being loving with myself; it’s also about me being loving with everyone else. I cancelled my massage today, even though I really need it, because I don’t want to share this lurgy around. I won’t be doing men’s circle tonight for that reason, and because I need an early night to rest up and get well. I know I’m likely to be grumpier than usual, so I take extra care to be kind to my beloved and our animals.

Endurance: ‘The ability or strength to continue and last.’ The older meanings include ‘be firm, solid, steadfast’.

LOVING ENDURANCE needs to get started (and be maintained) long before you need it.

Here’s the thing. If you don’t continually practice some kind of healthy endurance practices in your life, when you hit a challenges, you will struggle. I know this, because it’s only since I have been doing serious exercise, meditation, and energy practices 5 mornings a week, ALL THE TIME, that I have found that I can do loving endurance well when I meet challenges.

The best ways I know to practice loving endurance are through exercise: resistance and aerobic. Exercise is uncomfortable to at least some extent. The more you endure that healthy discomfort, the greater your capacity for loving endurance through challenges in life becomes.

And the greater your capacity is, the better you can help your pets when they have challenges. Our little cat, Loki, had his testicles removed this week. He had to have the cone of shame on to stop him licking his wounds. He didn’t like it. I had to help him through that. Because I’m good at loving endurance, I could stay calm, kind, present, and supportive, no matter how annoying he was. That helped him cope better too.

Loving endurance is also all about learning to LOVE the healthy discomfort of endurance. Once you get strong in this, it starts feeling good in a strange kind of way. You feel strong, even when you feel crappy. You know you can rise to and move through challenges for you, or with your pets, in a powerful way.

Another way you can put opening to possibility into practice is to come and learn Whole Energy Body Balance™ for Pets Bodywork for Pets. Not only will you learn how to find and heal your pet’s Silent Pain, Anxiety, and Trauma, but you’ll learn how to open to possibility as you explore therapeutic touch with your pets (who will LOVE IT). 

Here’s a short video of me discussing this topic.

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Gem with her new whippet friend!