Find Your Gratitude
I can’t feel both optimistic and pessimistic at the same time. So today I continue my ongoing practice of guiding my thinking back to the positive. As I do so, I am less able to hear the Grumbletudes. Pretty soon, I forgot what they were clamoring on about in the...
Drama Drama Drama
My mind can be a drama queen. It takes a small piece of information and blows it up to epic proportions. Proportions that are always disastrous and worst-case-scenario. And then it won’t stop talking about it. Or screaming about it. Today I tell the drama queen that...
Group Therapy
Coming together with others for a bigger purpose lifts my spirits. I may sit with others in a group meditation. I may march with others for justice and freedom. I may join with others to sing and dance. As I merge into the collective energy, I feel my own energy...
Switch It Up
If I’m feeling bad, there’s a really groovy thing I can do to switch things up. I can sing about my mood. It’s one thing to think, Everything sucks. But when I sing Everrrrry thiiiiiing suuuuuuuucks, the energy changes. I can’t help but smile, even a little. The music...