If you experience Achilles Tendinitis, or just an irritation of the Achilles Tendon, as I did when I thought I could just jump into working at my new retail job, doing non stop physical labor for my entire shifts, the following is a good exercise.
Exercise. The following exercise can help to strengthen the calf muscles and reduce stress on the Achilles tendon.
Calf stretch
Calf stretch Lean forward against a wall with one knee straight and the heel on the ground. Place the other leg in front, with the knee bent. To stretch the calf muscles and the heel cord, push your hips toward the wall in a controlled fashion. Hold the position for 10 seconds and relax. Repeat this exercise 20 times for each foot. A strong pull in the calf should be felt during the stretch.
Marketing isn’t just the vaguely ambiguous professional explanation for your lax bro friend’s summer home; it’s also often to blame for many of your impulse purchases. My dukes are out for whoever invented those roving internet ads that invade your Instagram feed every time you talk yourself down from yet another compulsive purchase (that marketer owes me big time). In this week’s Strategy newsletter, we’ll be talking about marketing gimmicks and the psychological forces that make us fall prey to them.
Try This Tactic
Prime yourself for level-headedness by keeping a picture of your family nearby a work computer. That’s according to Linjiang Lora Tu, a professor of marketing at the Baylor University Hankamer School of Business. Professor Tu’s got a new paper about one the most famous marketing gimmicks of all time: charging $0.99 for something instead of a dollar (a tactic known as “nine-ending pricing”)…
The morning we brought Ellie home, I was out with Cricket in the morning and we came across a little robin, sort of hopping on the walkway in stutter steps, and then belly flopping onto the grass. Cricket had had a moment of uneasiness with her legs a few minutes earlier, possibly as a result of the ACE she takes to tolerate grooming, so I was extra sensitive to motor problems in animals at that particular moment. When I tried to get closer to the robin to see what was wrong, though, she hopped behind a line of bushes and disappeared.
Not the exact bird, but a relative.
We saw the robin again in the afternoon, when she was bravely crossing the lawn to the tree-side, in her faltering little hops. The bird was able to sort of hop/fly up onto the first step of the retaining wall, where she…
“I’ve been taking these stutter steps towards my future for a long time now, unsure if I can do it, unsure if my difficulties are just growing pains or permanent disability. I need to take a lot of breaks to rest and re-group, but even if I have to hop instead of fly most of the time, I keep going. Just like the little bird.”
“This week, you may be feeling exhausted and in need of an energy boost. Remember, all your energy reserves and strength come from within. Take some time out this week to pause and reflect, and gather up your energy. Even though you may be lacking in strength, vitality and energy, it doesn’t mean you have to be completely incapacitated this week. Instead, go within to access your energy reserves and restore your inner strength.
You may also find that your inner strength and confidence is compromised this week. You may be doubting yourself and your ability to move through any challenges that have come your way. This is your opportunity to go deep within, and reconnect with your inner source of power and strength. You may have relied on others to provide this to you in the past, but the important lesson here is that only YOU can do this and you will be at your strongest when you discover how to find that part of you that is fierce and powerful!
Ask the Tarot: How can I restore my inner strength?”
(Esselmont)
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I am indeed “feeling exhausted,”“lacking in strength, vitality and energy,” and “doubting” myself and my “ability to move through … challenges” this week (Esselmont). So this card is a nice reminder and encouragement for me.
I also had never thought of viewing “feeling exhausted” as an Opportunity – an “opportunity to reconnect with” my “inner source of power and strength (Esselmont).”
Literally – like – “Yay, this week I get to really challenge myself”, or “Awesome, I get to utilize my inner reserves!”
So that’s an interesting way to view it instead of just “Oh my god, I”m so exhausted.” I’m going to give that a go, I think.
My exhaustion is temporary anyway, and I know it. Started work at a retail store last week after 15 years of cushy office work and my body is coming up the physical labor remembrance curve hard and fast, taking no prisoners. So positive outlooks have been getting washed away by “Oh my god I just need to sleep 16 hours to rejuvenate.” I’m feeling good tonight, but that’s only because I slept all last night and half of today, and that seems to be what it takes to recover from working.
Going to come back to this and re read after my next shifts so I can remember that its a blessing to have the opportunity to give my inner reserves of strength a trial run here and there.
Hope it helps some of you as well!
And you can click here if you want to read up on Biddy’s official Strength card attributes, both Upright and Reversed, in more detail.
Works Cited
Esselmont, Brigit. “Strength Reversed.” Received by Michelle Sebly, 6 Aug 2018.
We pray;That peace may reignIn our hearts;We pray;That peace may reignIn our homes;We pray;That peace may reignIn our families;We pray,That peace may reignIn our neighbourhoods;We pray,That peace may reignIn our towns and cities;We pray,That peace may reignIn our couhtry;We pray,That peace may reignIn our continent;We pray,That peace may reignIn the world.
Not the exact bird, but a relative. 
Fiery K. Tarot 