I've been slightly new agey lately, and I thought I'd share.

Sage Smudging
After a vacation that left me not relaxed but even more hopeless. See, it was around the time of my birthday which is NEVER a good time. No matter how great things are I seem to feel very down. I stayed on the couch most of the time, even TV was boring and TV is NEVER boring. The week before I bought soem sage smudge sticks at the local metaphysical store and looked up the process. I opened everything except the fridge and the one window that doesn't have a screen and proceeded to do my own thing based on what I'd read.
Result: Things have been increasingly positive. Money is all right, I was selected to hair model at a hip, cool salon, and I was selected to go to Iowa to help with the caucus there in January. My mood is better and I'm not crying constantly. Just intermittently.

Chiropractory
Ok, that may not exactly be the way to say it, but I had an adjustment with a chiro. The roller derby league has an official chiro who comes to pratices, so her most recent visit I decided to see what she'd do. I casually dated a dude a while back who promised to fund a chiro visit but I soon lost contact with that half-ass and nothing ever came of it. So, this lady's doing free adjustments and I get in line. She had me laying on the massage-like table and did some feeling around to see what was going on. I had some tension in my back and one hip out of alignment, something I attributed to the scoliosis diagnosis I'd gotten ages ago (remember scoliosis scrrens in gym class? ugh. Not that they discovered it there, but it's just a girl thing I relived just now). After much cracking and twisting I got up feeling a little bit lighter.
Result: I skated so much better that night and felt like the weight of the world was lifted off my shoulders. I was able to pop right up after single knee falls and even joined in a falling drill. This may, however, be better attributed to my newly lathed wheels, giving them a grip they hadn't had in a couple of months. Seriously, good wheels make the difference.

Labels: roller derby, therapy