The first thing I heard on the radio this morning is that according to a researcher, this is to be the most depressing day of the year! Well I don't know about you but today I feel fine, in fact quite good.
Now yesterday, that was another thing. I woke up after a great nights sleep and jumped out of bed. I decided to cook crepes for breakfast with raspberries, yummy. I love Sunday mornings, breakfast, fresh coffee, papers and conversation....no rush, and we didn't have to be or do anything, fantastic.
Yet within about 5 minutes of being up I got this niggly unsettled feeling in my tummy and head. Trouble is these things don't like to be ignored or resisted as that only gives them strength and substance and almost a significance, and as much as I know about how to deal with these things every now and again I forget and fall into an old behaviour which is not effective. Rather than accepting that I did't feel very 'special' and that 'it's ok as it will pass', I kept thinking about it and trying to figure it out. Of course if we keep thinking about something, we place all our focus on it which gives us more of the same. So instead of having a really nice relaxing morning from the minute I got up, it was a couple of hours later when I became aware of what I was doing that I eventually settled into the gentle swing of the day.
We are not always the relaxed, happy person we want to be. Sometimes we are not at full par. Accept that things are not so special at the moment and that it will pass. The exercise of doing that will reduce any resistance, and where there is no resistance there is no insistance.
It's ok not to be ok all of the time. Be kind to yourself and accept yourself.
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