Dear Anita,

I am glad you shortened your walk, this is not a weakness, but you also being “inward” and listening to what your body needs.

Yes, when I read the concept of inward oriented, as an outsider, as when you wrote it just now – it almost sounds silly!

Well inward oriented, where else would you be? Funny how it seems this way, yet the “innate” sense of thinking of yourself first, or prioritizing yourself – for someone like me with my history – is foreign and a deliberate practice.

I also want to note that I would have read this prior as “selfish” or “self-centered” yet, it is so far from that. In fact I have noticed a trend – when I am NOT, inward – I will retaliate out of anger – “gosh, why can’t I be more focused on MYSELF, agh! Well screw that I am going to be SELFISH today.”

This in fact is much more detrimental than being cool calm and inward from the get go.