Vibrancy Booster Bites April Edition
Up your Vibe by combining the seven pillars of health into little bites to feed your body and soul
Hey, it’s the first Wednesday of the month and rather than an EOTM (exercise of the month) I thought I’d round up and combine the Seven Pillars of Health into some easily digestible snacky hacks to UP your vibration for the month.
VBBOTM is a bit of a mouthful and also looks a bit rude so feel free to help me out with your catchy acronym suggestions. Click below and give it your best shot🙏
So…
My goal is to give you a few different options; things you might want to sample to improve your health.
As always, take what works and leave/ignore the rest. You’ll have the whole month of April to do them so maybe try one new thing each week - who knows you might find something that makes you feel really, really good!
What are Those Seven Pillars of Health Again?
Movement
Relationships & Community
Sleep
Nutrition
Environment
Mindfulness
Creativity
These seven pillars overlap and intertwine and let’s be honest, it’s hard to keep all seven of them strong, all the time.
To shore them up we need awareness of which one(s) might be crumbling a bit.
The goal for this post is to remind you to pay attention to them and nurture them. Even incremental changes can bring us closer to the fully vibrant life we envision.
For April we’ll be combining an MB with an SB, an NB with an EB, a CB with an MB and then have an RB all on its own😉
Confused? Don’t be, all those abbreviations pare down to 4 snacky hacks.
#1
This is the one I’m going to start with since my sleep’s not been the best lately. It’s the perfect thing to do in bed just before your visit to Snoozeville.
Booster Bite
Two videos:
The explanation of what you’ll be doing with all the exercises/stretches shown in detail.
The seven minute wind down flow to be done in your bed - how delicious!
#2
Booster Bite
This one’s pretty simple although maybe have less appeal.
Find a food that’s good for you that you’ve never tried or you’ve only tried once or twice
Take your shoes off and take that food outside
Sit somewhere with your bare feet on the ground and eat your new to you food
What about:
quinoa?
sauerkraut?
açai?
sardines?
kombucha?
kale?
I used to not like kale at all but I have a recipe that literally tells you how to make your “kale not shit”. Want it? Message me and I’ll send it over
#3
This creativity booster was the impetus for the post, hope you like it🤞
Booster Bite
Supplies:
smart phone or camera
notepad and writing implement
5-10 minutes
Take a Photo, Preferably Outside, then:
Set timer for 2 minutes which trust me will feel like forever!
Study the photo intensely: Notice the lines, shapes, angles, colours and any other details - use those eyes to pore over everything. Shut out the outside world - btw this is your Mindfulness Booster
Set timer for 5 minutes
Describe the photo (or even just a small portion of it) however you want. It can be florid language, it can be hyperbolic or matter of fact, it can lead you to weird tangents. It does not need to make sense, it does not need to be literal, it’s whatever comes out of you
Feel Brave & Courageous!
Post your photo in the comments at the bottom of this post
Feel Crazily Brave & Wildly Courageous!!
Post your description in the comments!!
I’ll go first:
Look for my description in the comments and add yours!
#4
Oooh, this one I’m excited about as well.
Booster Bite
Write a message to a friend that you’ve quasi or fully lost touch with
You choose if you want to message, email, or go old school and pull out a beautiful notecard from your vast stationery supply (just me??).
Here’s something to get you started:
Hey (insert name here),
I know we haven’t talked in a while but I just wanted to let you know that I’ve been thinking about you lately and wondering how everything’s going with you and (insert name here)?
We’ve been pretty good - just dealing with the usual shit - you know, the lifing stuff, but man we’ve also had some crazy weather lately. Don’t know if it made the news over there but we’ve had tonnes of rain with significant flooding. We personally didn’t flood (our little house is on a pretty big hill) but the Mary River came up and my world is soggy right now…
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
… anyhoo, that’s the news from our part of the world. If you and (insert name here) ever want to come for a visit, we’d love to show you around.
Take care and write back if you’re so inclined.
xxx
Okay, you have your marching (or walking quite gently) orders. Let’s see what April will bring (besides me having a bit too much chocolate around the 20th🐰🐣)
Let me know which ones you get up to and I can’t wait to see your photos and read your descriptions in the comments.
Have a fab day, week, and month!
Remember to breathe & move and move & breathe.
Okee Dokee, here’s the result of my CB & MB:
Black and white repeating patterns: one silly dog in transit, one silly stationary cow (with good for nothing friend in the background). The dog starts to notice the cow but is the glance reciprocated? I think not, she’s probably cursing the weather as she should be. Who wants to stand in the fog? It’s interesting how the fog becomes a curtain dropped down at the fence line. What a moody morning.
The dog shows us her white points and tips symmetrical in their placement but not in their design. Oh the wonder of a dog. She’s a good dog, she knows she’s a good dog until she’s a bad dog.
Love that tree, it’s a Jacaranda and every time it blooms it reminds me that nature has the best colours. So rich! Such a purple or would you say a heavy, deep lilac? You could say either, you could say both, you could describe that colour exactly however you want. The delicate lace like leaves against the monochromatic, misty sky is pretty dang cool.
The curve of the gravel turns it into a dry creek bed that’s getting choked by all the damn grass and infiltrated by all the damn weeds.
Five vertical fence posts reflecting the tree trunks, they’re old and decrepit enough that they’re returning to nature, their only job anymore to keep the cows out (or in if you’re the cow) and hold up a struggling bougainvillea. You can’t make out the rusty barbed wire but I know it’s there having made friends with in on a couple of occasions.
This photo makes me want to go inside, make a cup of coffee and sip it with the dog at my feet until the fog burns off, revealing six more cows.
Before I read further, here's my description (it'll be plain, since English is a foreign language to me and I don't need any added cognitive load):
Misty field. Must be about noon, if I'm seeing correctly: the tree on the right seems to cast its shadow vertically. (It could be that the grass is a bit darker over there, but I think the former is the case.)
The picture is divided horizontally in the middle. Bottom: green short grass, dark grey for a curvy line of gravel path. The shape of the path gives a sense of depth, of perspective. Top: the other side of the road. A wire fence with short poles to keep a cow inside. Mist (can barely see behind the cow), taller grass.
At the left side of the picture, a black doggie (going towards the cow, perhaps) adds motion to the picture. The doggie wears a white collar (or is it the colour of his neck?), has white feet and a tiny white spot at the tip of his tail. At the right side of the picture, a dark green mass of a few trees (one is closer to us, the others are in the background behind it) balances the dark volume of the dog while also giving a vertical thrust to an otherwise horizontally stretched picture.
In the middle of the horizontal axis, the cow, standing next to a young tree, looks towards the doggie.
A trivial moment well captured.