I discovered yesterday that my memory isn’t as bad as I thought.
I listened to George Michael’s Faith album and I pretty much know all the words. I remember listening to the album on tape, which meant I had to listen to the whole album, like we did back then.
No selecting tracks individual on Alexa.
Today, I proved my memory isn’t that great when out on a bike ride. I asked my mates where we would be coming out on a track I must have rode down 50+ times over the years. I’d rode those tracks at the back of Coombe Abbey when I was in single figures.
How does that work?
Song lyrics from the 80’s, where I was, who I was dating, etc, etc.
Things that we have from our pasts can bring forward memories of happiness and sadness. The emotions we attach to songs, foods and events can be good or bad.
Bad only if the story we attach to them continues to affect our behaviours. If a song reminds you of a bad relationship, that’s ok. If that then makes you eat a kilo bar of dairy milk, it needs to be dealt with.
That could be as simple as writing down exactly what happened, why it makes you sad and filing it away.
It could be much more complicated, you’re the only one who knows that.
Emotional eating is not something that can be fixed in one email, it is something that you can get control of though. Like everything, you have to take action.
I crashed my bike while thinking about what I was going to have for breakfast earlier rather than paying attention to my friends moving to the side of the path. The bollard I smacked my knee in to didn’t care about hollowed out loaf with a full breakfast in.
I chose something less calorific in the end as my knee was sore and I didn’t have enough calories left in my week to justify the loaf thing.
Maybe next time.
Tomorrow, our challenge is to review those same questions from Day 1. Some measurements and where we are on energy etc.
What album do you know all the words to from years ago?
Darren “Wham” Checkley
