During Spin Class at the gym, our spirited instructor (snippeteer Jane)  

reminds us several times in the 45 minutes on the bike to "reset." Let go of the handlebars that we are squeezing ... sit up and back on the bike seat ... open our arms wide to stretch our chests ... release the breath that we may have been holding in ... relax our shoulders that we were scrunching and tensing, and basically, start over. We release, we reposition, we RESET.

This is Jane.

This is Jane "resetting."

Last weekend on a 6-girls getaway to Western Maryland as we visited a beautiful resort spa, we all received massages. My masseuse, for one, found a number of knotty and ropy muscles that he worked on. That was the week's stress that I had been carting around. That massage was my reset. Our bodies hold in anxiety, worry and stress and - if we let them - those will turn into illness, low energy, run-down, overeating, crankiness, inefficiency, even disease ("dis-EASE").

 

We reset our clocks when the electricity goes off. We reset our furnaces when they aren't operating on par. We reset diamonds when we want a new setting. We reset dials, watches, computers, broken bones, alarms, odometers and thermostats. So remember to reset your bodies, too! If you are squeezing the handlebars too hard in life, if your shoulders are scrunched up in anxiety, if you are holding your breath and leaning forward too far ... let go before you fall. Sit up. Release. Breath. Relax. Reposition. Reset.

 

Bet. You. Could. Do. This. Right. Now. While. You're. Reading. SNIPPETS. 

RELEASE, REPOSITION, RESET.