I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.

Hello, hello.

How are you doing?

Am I the only person who has got off to what feels like a

bit of a foggy sleepy start to November? I'm going to be having an early

night tonight and this is a habit that I have really, really embraced this year. So I'm in 2019 just in case she happened to be listening in the future.

And so since in February, I have aimed,

where possible, to have an early night

about three to four times a week.

So typically I'm aiming to be in bed by nine.

But you know what, some days, I'm not even going to lie.

I've been in bed before the kids. I've been like, see ya, I'm after bed.

And they'll come up and they'll say good night to me when they're getting ready to go.

Now, I mention all of this because ever since I did the episode on bandwidth last year

which was on episode 100 I found myself thinking about bandwidth every day and talking about it almost as much.

So as a quick recap, our bandwidth is our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual capacity to be do and have the things that we need and want.

And so this is shown to us through our sense of emotional, mental, physical and spiritual well-being,

and we increase and decrease our bandwidth based on where we are spending our time, energy, effort, and emotions. So our attention.

Where we spend that attention matters.

And the more time, energy, effort and emotions that are spent being and doing things

that we don't need or want, the more time, energy, effort and emotions of attention spent, you know, not taking care of us, you know, not creating

and you know, managing healthy boundaries is the less bandwidth that we have. And so the reason why I think I find myself talking about bandwidth a lot is because so many of us are disconnected from our bodies and actually disconnected from our feelings so we don't know how and what we

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