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Bev and I have been spending a lot of time together - online. Our skype lines are open to each other several hours a day, many emails, use of a couple of web based collaboration tools, cross tagging and sometimes I think, mind melding half way cross the world as we work on a project together. Back on May 11 she posted something that rang a bell for me, Having a turn!.

My body may look like it's just sitting on the sofa. But in reality I'm rushing from room to room, person to person, task-to-task in a social universe located inside my computer.

Could that be the reason why me and my body keep getting out of synch? I can be talking to someone, brushing my teeth or giving a presentation when suddenly I feel like I've been dislocated from my physical self. It is very disconcerting. Today I found myself coming out of the lift on a different side of the lobby to my body!

For those of us who work, play, or spend a good chunk of our days online, our boundaries are far beyond the physical constraints that we can touch and see around us. Our heads may be in Setubal, Portugal, while our sore fingers are on purple keyboards in Seattle.

This suggests that we have to take care of our minds and bodies in a way that reflects our world. I want to start with bodies, because minds are, of course, much trickier. :-)

For those of you who are online denizens, what are you doing to take care of your body? I have renewed my attention to mine and here is what I've been doing:

• Take my vitamins and calcium every day - with lots of B-complex to prevent RSI in my hands
  
• 30 minutes of aerobic activitgy 5-6 days a week, with 3 of those including some weight bearing (sometimes I just dance around the living room. Thank god I don't have a webcam.)
  
• Have water at my desk and drink more of it.
  
• Make an effort to get up and move around every hour. Probably should be more.
  
• Get outside - fresh air, sunshine (or cloud shine here in Seattle!)