“Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.”
Smiling is Going Make You Feel Better
A University of Kansas study found that smiling—even fake smiling—reduces heart rate and blood pressure during stressful situations. So try a few minutes of YouTube humor therapy when you’re stomping your feet waiting in line or fuming over a work or family situation. It’s difficult not to smile while watching a favorite funny video.
My eyes are fixed on tomorrow, my feet firmly planted in today, and my arms outstretched to catch my blessings.
Joe: ” Pete do you know the difference between mashed potatoes and pea soup?”
Pete: “Can’t say I do. What is it?”
Joe: “Anyone can mash potatoes.”
Pretty Good World
Frank Stanton
Pretty good world if you take it all round—
Pretty good world, good people!
Better be on than under the ground—
Pretty good world, good people!
Better be here where the skies are as blue
As the eyes of your sweetheart a-smilin’ at you—
Better than lyin’ ‘neath daisies and dew—
Pretty good world, good people!
Pretty good world with its hopes and its fears—
Pretty good world, good people!
Sun twinkles bright through the rain of its tears—
Pretty good world, good people!
Better be here, in the pathway you know—
Where the thorn’s in the garden where sweet roses grow,
Than to rest where you feel not the fall o’ the snow—
Pretty good world, good people!
Pretty good world! Let us sing it that way—
Pretty good world, good people!
Make up your mind that you’re in it to stay—
At least for a season, good people!
Pretty good world, with its dark and its bright—
Pretty good world, with its love and its light;
Sing it that way till you whisper, “Good-night!”—
Pretty good world, good people!
Is your glass half-empty or half-full? How you answer this age-old question about positive thinking may reflect your outlook on life, your attitude toward yourself, and whether you’re optimistic or pessimistic — and it may even affect your health.
Researchers continue to explore the effects of positive thinking and optimism on health. Health benefits that positive thinking may provide include:
Source: MayoClinic
In the midst of chaos and the turbulence that seems prevalent I imagine my mind being as still as this lake (Grateful to a friend who recently went camping with her family by this lake for sharing this photo).
Feel like you want to RSVP to a personal Pity Party? I’ll be sharing some tricks to slam the door shut on the pity party.
The body craves movement. Exercise really works. Let’s not think of it as exercise though. Nothing is gnarlier to the depressed person than imagining him/herself at the gym in ill fitting sweats, panting on the stair master while svelte athletes are bopping around in all directions. As Woody Allen says, 90% of success is showing up. Once we’ve got our walking shoes on, once we get endorphins cooking, the doldrums have less power to penetrate.
Hang on as long as you can. When you feel you can’t hang on any longer. Hold on tighter. You can do it.
The Past
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Fling my past behind me, like a robe
Worn threadbare in the seams, and out of date.
I have outgrown it. Wherefore should I weep
And dwell up on its beauty, and its dyes
Of Oriental splendour, or complain
That I must needs discard it? I can weave
Upon the shuttles of the future years
A fabric far more durable. Subdued,
It may be, in the blending of its hues,
Where sombre shades commingle, yet the gleam
Of golden warp shall shoot it through and through,
While over all a fadeless lustre lies,
And starred with gems made out of crystalled tears,
My new robe shall be richer than the old.
