Beauty is more than a pretty face and no
amount of money can buy a beautiful soul.
Yesterday I had fun, after the Summer Fete at
the school, where I did a spot of one of my favourite pastimes of people
watching, and that always makes for interesting viewing. It’s no secret that I adore having children in
my Weight Watcher meetings ;D, heck I even supply lollies, so yesterday I
watched lots of the little people running round a school yard, even when it
poured down with rain they were oblivious to it all, one little girl stood
devouring a cup cake, focusing on it so intently as if it was the only thing in
world at that moment, she took little mouthfuls and chewed them completely
whilst looking at the cake in anticipation on the next bite, but not eating it
greedily, she was taking her time and all the time she was getting soaking wet,
she hadn’t got a coat on but she didn’t care.
That’s called ‘mindfulness’ and we could all do with practicing some of
it in our lives. We can learn a lot from
these little people, mindfulness being only one thing, the next time you
indulge in a cup cake or something equally delicious give it that amount of
attention, because I watched grown ups eating those same cakes yesterday and
they didn’t even taste it because they continued walking round, talking and
doing other things at the same time.
Yes we had lots of fun, Lynne drove over with
her husband and their two kids to keep me company and we had fun, face
painting, henna designs on the hands, bouncy castles - this is just the kids and I was sooooooo
jealous, I wanted to go on the bouncy castle, I wanted my face painted and if
it hadn’t of been raining so much at the end of the day I would have had my
hand painted with henna, but we’d already waited 20 minutes in the rain for Jen
to get hers done and she was getting soaked.
So instead we’ve ordered some henna from ebay and Jen’s gonna paint my
hands for me in the holiday, that’ll be fun – I’ll post photos ;D
Well I don’t believe I’m writing this but
after the fete we went to the Wacky Warehouse!
Yes I coped again, I’m not a fan though, I still don’t understand why
you can’t check the kids in at the door and go sit in the restaurant next door
till their down! When we finally did get
to go eat, we had a a real good giggle, Jen practiced some designs ready for
when the henna arrived and she also drew me a picture which is on my wall in my
office now. Me and Will shared dessert –
OMG - it was a little bit big and it beat us, we couldn’t finish it.
So I left with belly ache not from overindulging
but from laughing, did you know that humans and apes are the only animals with the
capacity for laughter. Why waste such a
precious gift? A good laugh can make us
healthier, happier, more productive, more at ease and shared laughter forges
friendships even with the little people!
Here’s a random bit of info for you, someone calculated that if you
laughed uproariously for an hour, you’d burn more calories than in an hour of
walking! So if you needed a reason to
have a good laugh, there’s one, it also tones 15 facial muscles so it’s a
natural cosmetic surgery.
Laughter really is good for you and kids
really know how to do it unreservedly, you can learn a lot from them, they don’t
care who’s watching them and whether they’re embarrassing themselves they just
laugh and have fun. So stop being so
self aware, let go a little and have a giggle.
Really tiny babies can teach us a
thing or two also! In my meeting on
Thursday was the tiniest baby, 5 days old, as you can imagine it got a lot
of attention. Have you ever watched a baby when their sitting on the floor in
their nappies. All babies usually have plenty of baby fat, and
they couldn’t care less. They are happy and joyful; they has no feelings of
shame towards their body. They just sat there, smiled and play with those belly
rolls. I wonder at what point that shame
kicks in. For almost all of us, it eventually does. Maybe it’s when kids tease
us for being fat in school. Or maybe it’s we’re dumped in favour of the pretty
one. Or maybe it’s when we look in magazines and see the impossibly airbrushed
bodies.
Clearly, shame is not
something with which we are born, a babies behaviour is proof of that. We need
to learn to dislike our human bodies – and it’s an art that we hone finely. It’s easy to point fingers at the media or
the culture around us, however we also need to share the responsibility; we can
want to create a healthier body without hating or disliking the one we already
have. You can lose weight whilst loving what is at the same time. (That’s the
point of my website www.happyowls.co.uk)
Loving our bodies as they are
today is natural – and possible. Turns out, we can learn a lot from a baby.
Having said all this, I still
don’t want any of my own ;D I’m happy to borrow from time to time and watch the
really small ones from afar.
If you have a
child, why don’t you go have fun with them today, it doesn’t have to cost
money, it’s just a case of bringing yourself down to their level and having
fun. We ate yesterday but I never once
thought about food, I was too busy having fun.
xx
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