Where's your Happy Place?

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!