When do your mind and body disagree?

For me it’s usually when I eat something that turns my guts inside out. Like the time my guts were all haywire and I couldn’t eat anything for three days. (Mouth to toilet bowel in 15 minutes.) And I really wanted to.

When I stay up so long that I get too tired to sleep.

For me it’s when I teach PE or have recess duty. I want to run and jump and play with the kids, like I used to, but my body says, ‘HAIL NO!’ It’s all I can do to walk from one end of the gym to the other, not to mention walking miles a day through school hallways.

When I want to save money verses eating out everyday. Also I want to go swimming and play in the playground swings, but realizing my age and I don’t.

My mind wants to relax but my muscles are tense. Thats when a glass of wine comes in handy.

Yes, this happens sometimes while drinking. My mind says “PARTY!!”, but my body says “I’m gonna puke if you drink any more”. Thankfully my mind seems to always listen to my body eventually.

Every waking moment and numerous dream occurances.
I feel like, while seated, so my body aches. It has ached lots during my life, and I just worked through it. I have stuff I want to do, and if I just get to it will be fine.
After my pep talk, I get up.
No, I don’t. I get two inches off my chair and either fall back to it, or hover, while my arms struggle to raise the body my legs can’t.
My leg muscles are like beef jerky. They are fixed and rigid.
Once I get strength and balance in substitute ways, I start forcing my arms to do what they are not meant to, support my weight and move me forward.
People expect that struggling this way, all day, from one day to the next would make me depressed.
I have my highs and lows, but I am not depressed.
Maybe it is because I am just born sunny, no, probably not.
Maybe I’m just that happy to be alive. Hmm.
Could it be that I can’t choose to walk better, so I go with improving what I can?
I don’t know, honestly.
People are frequently surprised that my mood does not match my physical limitations.
I guess at some point in my life I got tired of waiting for funny, or happy, or clever to happen around me, and decided to force it into being from my own store of sunshine.

By the way, my lats are fucking impressive.

Every time I try to stand up!!! Every night when I try to go to sleep.

My mind has the stamina of a race horse. My body not so much.

When I eat a lot of nuts, because they taste so good, but my body doesn’t digest them well.

My entire life wanting to jog with my friends and not being able to do more than a minute. Low stamina.

When I want to dance now for three hours, and there is no way anymore, because of muscle weakness.

When I lie down at night to relax, but start to feel my heart arrhythmias, and it causes me worry. I almost never feel anything abnormal while active.

When I want to lean on my husband’s chest while in bed watching TV, and I have to be really careful because of my neck injury. Additionally, right now my vertigo is severe on that side, the side my husband is on, so my world spins around and I need to hold on for dear life when I turn towards him while lying down, because I feel like I’m going to be thrown out of bed even though I’m in the middle of the bed. I need to tell my mind I’m flat on the bed. The most fascinating part is not that the world is spinning, but that the sensation of the bed seems to disappear while the world spins.

In fact, I would say of everything I listed, the vertigo is the winner, because there is a disconnect with the mind’s perception of the world, and where the body actually is. Gravity is perceived incorrectly, and so up is down. It’s fascinating, but I’d rather not have intimate knowledge of it. Impossible to really imagine if you’ve never experienced it.

My body lies to me saying, “I’m hungry!”. But my mind knows that I just ate an hour earlier. So I tell my body, “Cut the crap and do some work. I’m in charge here not you!” HA!

Good on you @gondwanalon!

And just the opposite….my brain is going “We’re gonna have 4 (or 6) grandkids (<the age of 10) overnight on Friday???” I start dreading it, really. But when it happens it’s all a cool, magical trip, and as much work as I expected, but not so bad as I expected.

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: and neither Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Or all your Tears erase a Word of it.”

I have been up for 36 hours trying to get a submarine underway. At some point my body said “sleep!” and my mind said “no time!” I have also gotten woken up with a bj. that’s a tough contradiction. On one hand you were sound asleep. On the other you are now fully awake for a really good thing!

Wait, do I know you?^^