
No more "work first, sleep (and relax) later." Sleep, stress reduction,
and relaxation are now top priority. General shift from time spent
working to time spent relaxing.
Getting used to asking for help from both friends and strangers.
Shift in time and energy from doing things to planning, organizing,
and coordinating what other people are doing.
Change in attitude toward money, relatively more toward spending
on the present and relatively less toward saving.
Taking vacations has dramatically improved my health in a relatively
short period of time.
Grieving for loss of health, and grieving when contemplating healing
and improvement. Living with an injury day to day, it is emotionally
difficult to imagine improved health, even when it seems realistic and
likely that improved health will occur.
Approaching both healing and particular circumstances as problems
to be solved, and turning attention toward solutions.
Saying "no" to others when a particular task would be stressful or
physically difficult.
Saying "no" to myself (setting limits); learning to weigh benefits of
task against physical costs.
Organizing home and office to reduce stacks of paper and make it
physically easier to be productive.
Learning to direct people who help me and perform services for me.
"Ordering people around" can take getting used to.
Continually growing awareness of posture and body in general.
Interest in alternative medicine and holistic health that did not
previously exist.
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