Went gym with my gal friend today. She managed! Finished the Zumba Fitness Dance Class! Was satisfied. Treadmill for 52mins while waiting for her. A great workout ending with a good & long awaited meal. After the whole excruciating happenings of the day, still I managed to stay out of the "blues". Though not always Mondays, I seemed to get alot of such "blue" days. After all, such days are incessant. So, grit your teeth, brace up & bear through all.
After self nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted. You felt impossible to quiet down the wants. It seems as if you have too many unfulfilled desires & delayed dreams. You're sick & tired of waiting for inner changes to manifest themselves on the outside. When the dark days come, we need to remember that even if a secret saboteur - depression - is at work, temporarily derailing our progress (or so it seems), each day offers us a gift if we will only look for it. Sometimes we are sad for a very apparent reason. Other times we don't know why we feel so bad, which makes us feel even worse. It could be for a million different reasons - an appalling lack of appreciation (by ourselves & by others), or simply part of the process of personal transformation.
I wish I could tell you spiritual & creative growth was smooth, predictable & without pain. "All the best transformation are accompanied by pain," Fay Weldon tells us. That's the point of them. Personal growth, as I observed, comes in spasms : three steps forward, two steps backwards, & then a long plateau when it seems as though nothing is happening. But it's important to realise that this dormant period we often become depressed & decide to give up.
It's on days like these that you can barely get yourself dressed & out of the door. You looked like hell & couldn't care less. Life seems bleak, not bright with promise. It's taking more work than you expected to discover who you really are, & now you are no longer sure if you even want to find out. When dark clouds hover, what should you do besides holding on & riding out the storm? You have two choices. One is simply to give in, stop resisting. You got the blues, so sing to them. But before you do ask for grace. Then have a good cry (if it works for you). Sleep it off or indulge. soak in a hot tub (if you have one) or simply pull up the covers & snuggle down and then turn out the lights.
The alternative blue-kicker is to shift gears. Ask for grace. Call a good friend & talk. No matter which route you take, within 24 hours the day will be over. Tomorrow should be better. Dark days come to all of us. Yet discouraging days bring with them golden opportunities when we can learn to be kind to ourselves and stop berating ourselves of our misdeeds. Believe it or not, today offers you a hidden gift, if you are willing to search for it.
DaRkAnGeL'S WoRdS oF WiSdOm :
"Perhaps if one knew when one was happy, one would know the things that were necessary for one's life. In my life's chain of events, nothing was ever accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need."
After self nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted. You felt impossible to quiet down the wants. It seems as if you have too many unfulfilled desires & delayed dreams. You're sick & tired of waiting for inner changes to manifest themselves on the outside. When the dark days come, we need to remember that even if a secret saboteur - depression - is at work, temporarily derailing our progress (or so it seems), each day offers us a gift if we will only look for it. Sometimes we are sad for a very apparent reason. Other times we don't know why we feel so bad, which makes us feel even worse. It could be for a million different reasons - an appalling lack of appreciation (by ourselves & by others), or simply part of the process of personal transformation.
I wish I could tell you spiritual & creative growth was smooth, predictable & without pain. "All the best transformation are accompanied by pain," Fay Weldon tells us. That's the point of them. Personal growth, as I observed, comes in spasms : three steps forward, two steps backwards, & then a long plateau when it seems as though nothing is happening. But it's important to realise that this dormant period we often become depressed & decide to give up.
It's on days like these that you can barely get yourself dressed & out of the door. You looked like hell & couldn't care less. Life seems bleak, not bright with promise. It's taking more work than you expected to discover who you really are, & now you are no longer sure if you even want to find out. When dark clouds hover, what should you do besides holding on & riding out the storm? You have two choices. One is simply to give in, stop resisting. You got the blues, so sing to them. But before you do ask for grace. Then have a good cry (if it works for you). Sleep it off or indulge. soak in a hot tub (if you have one) or simply pull up the covers & snuggle down and then turn out the lights.
The alternative blue-kicker is to shift gears. Ask for grace. Call a good friend & talk. No matter which route you take, within 24 hours the day will be over. Tomorrow should be better. Dark days come to all of us. Yet discouraging days bring with them golden opportunities when we can learn to be kind to ourselves and stop berating ourselves of our misdeeds. Believe it or not, today offers you a hidden gift, if you are willing to search for it.
DaRkAnGeL'S WoRdS oF WiSdOm :
"Perhaps if one knew when one was happy, one would know the things that were necessary for one's life. In my life's chain of events, nothing was ever accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need."
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