Taking Control

After the last few years of doctors, medicines, tests, sickness, and hospitals I am deciding to stop letting this illness control me. It took my energy, happiness, friends, and hobbies. I am not going to let it take anything else. I am going to beat this illness. This illness is going to lose... I really like to win! (Thank you Grandma for my competitive spirit). The doctors want me to exercise so that is exactly what I am going to do. I am stopping the continuous resting by going on walks. This started last Monday. I went on a walk for 11 minutes and got a .7 miles. Tuesday I walked for 15 minutes and reached a mile. Wednesday I decided to walk faster, I did a mile in 13 minutes. Thursday I did the mile in 12 minutes and 50 seconds. Friday I went on my adventure with my sister which consisted of a lot of walking. Saturday I wanted to walk longer... so I did... for 25 minutes and reached 1.7 miles. Today I went to the USS Iowa with my brother, it was so much fun and was quite a bit of walking with stairs. Each day I have been taking a picture while I do my walking adventure. Here are the ones I have taken so far...

Breath of Life

Today I was searching for a quote that would fit for my day and life but I just couldn't find one that I liked. Later my sister  sent me this one. 

 

After reading this I thought how amazing it is. We keep all the stress, chaos, and heartache in our life bottled up inside of instead of letting it out. Does it help you?... I know it definitely doesn't help me. There is so much more in life to breathe in like love, joy, and peace. For some reason we let all the negative in our life take over all the good. So now when I think of a breath I think of letting out all the bad and inviting all the good in. Try it, hopefully it will help you on a chaotic day.