I know, I know. I always preach to you, take 10 minutes on weekdays to apply \"Chi instead of Botox\", that's enough for wonderful results. I've been doing it myself for years. Well, and then of course there are always phases like this...<\/p>\n\n\n
I stopped doing it a few weeks ago. Why? Hmm, I had so little time and so much stress and blah-blah-blah. I\u2019d love to tell you that. But it\u2019s not true. So, if I\u2019m being completely honest, it was just plain old laziness. I didn\u2019t fancy it, full stop. At first I thought, \u2018Just take a week off, it doesn\u2019t matter\u2019 (translation: it doesn\u2019t matter \ud83d\ude09). One week turned into two, then three, and nothing happened, and then I just completely forgot about it.<\/p>\n\n\n
Last week we were in Croatia. You relax, feel better, become more mindful. And so here I am, sitting at the breakfast table, listening to my children chattering away, and I don\u2019t feel well. My head feels strangely heavy, and my eyes just won\u2019t quite wake up. I realise I\u2019ve been feeling this tired in the mornings for a few days now. I have another coffee. It doesn\u2019t help; it just makes my stomach ache \u2013 I\u2019m not much of a coffee drinker. It takes a full two hours before I no longer feel as though I\u2019m carrying a swollen melon on my shoulders. The next day, it\u2019s the same. I put it down to the heat. It\u2019s only when I\u2019m standing in front of the mirror, applying my face cream, and thinking, \u201eWow, my skin feels strangely rough and it feels as though the cream isn\u2019t sinking in at all,\u201c that it occurs to me I\u2019ve been neglecting \u2018Chi instead of Botox\u2019 for ages. A feeling of happiness washes over me, because I now know that I won\u2019t be feeling like an old elephant for half the day today.<\/p>\n\n\n
The first thing I do is facial yoga. Twice as long as usual, so a good quarter of an hour. After that, the feeling of tiredness and heaviness in my head is gone. I already feel better. Unfortunately, I don't have a scraper or a cupping spoon with me. I get a soup spoon and try to scrape with it. It feels uncomfortable, it's too intense on my freshly tanned skin. I remember the email from a reader who wrote that she is scraping with an espresso saucer for now. I search the kitchen again and try it out. It's not the same as my scraper, but it works. My skin looks fresher again, feels softer, I can literally feel the lymphatic fluid draining away. I feel completely different to how I did half an hour ago. Feelings of happiness are spreading.<\/p>\n\n\n
This great, fit body feeling is pretty high up on my scale of values. For me, it has nothing to do with vanity, but simply with quality of life. If I don't feel fit, I have gloomy thoughts and that leads to a whole rat's tail. The puffiness around my eyes is gone, I feel twenty years younger in one fell swoop. And because I feel so good right now, I tell my family that I'm going for a walk on the beach, alone with myself, just to start the day with mindfulness and a contented smile, to feel good about myself and listen to the waves, to be happy, grateful and connected. Honestly, how often does a woman - and even more so a mother - get to have moments like this?<\/p>\n\n\n
Well, and then I thought that instead of sending you new material today, maybe I should send you some motivation in between. That's why I'm telling you this story. Stay tuned, it's worth it. Take a break, but go back to chi instead of botox soon. Treat yourself to this youthful freshness, this body feeling that doesn't stop at the neck, but also spreads to the face, head and throughout the whole body.<\/p>\n\n\n
If you don\u2019t yet know what Chi is instead of Botox, you\u2019ll find all the information here:<\/p>\n\n\n