Where’s your Happy
Place?
You probably think that this is a
trick question, but ummm, no. It’s quite the contrary, thinking, dreaming, even
closing your eyes and envisioning can help with a bad attitude. Now, I’m not
saying, it takes you from a not so happy mood to a heart that leaps for joy but
something like that. Thinking of where you’d like to be or what you’d like to
be doing can actually release squirts of jolly juice in your brain called
serotonin.
I find that creating goals for
myself helps me deal with a sad mood, whether I’m telling myself, “Self, at the
end of the week you’re getting a pedicure and lunch” or “Self, you deserve that
handbag that you’ve been eyeing”. In other words, when all else fails, I
totally pamper myself! Although, they’re have been times when the pampering
doesn’t help and I need something else, such as a spiritual pick-me up, I turn
to nature. Nature has done for me what I couldn’t do for myself, I find myself
feeling grateful as opposed to burdened and healthy as opposed to helpless.
There’s something about meditating in Gods creation that sets the spirit free,
I find a private area, whether it be in a park or my backyard and breathe in
deeply. Taking deep breaths not only relieves tension but it helps to realign
the body’s chakras, which can release negative toxins in the body, try it
sometime and let me know what you think!
