working with weakness

Today I did not feel great. But I went to yoga hoping Hatha would realign my strange not quite together feeling in my body. Throughout the class I enjoyed the stretching and carefully avoided the poses I knew my body was in no state to handle. Instead, I moved into restorative poses while others did more active moves. 

Afterwards, I did not feel much better. It seems that I cannot cool down despite my best efforts (cold shower, lying under fan, cool cloth on neck and forehead). I went downstairs at one point much to my boyfriends surprise. I sat for maybe 10 minutes before he led me back upstairs and suggested I try to take a nap, "just rest" he says. Oh like it's so simple. Rest. I don't want to. I want to watch Netflix, write on a novel, be on the couch with you. But I must rest. 

Hours later he is waking me up to see if my headache has passed (it has) and if I have cooled off (I haven't). 

Our body communicates with us every second of every day. Mine was not happy today. And I didn't want to listen, but he heard it and helped me listen and act appropriately to my body's needs. We can feel weak in a variety of ways. Sometimes it manifests itself physically; whereas others it lingers in our spiritual or emotional being. We must listen. When we cannot hear the need for rest, it is up to those close around us to verbalize the identification of the weakness so that we are able to deal with it and not let it break us down.