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How long has it been since you've laughed like this? Lived life so completely like this? I was so interested to learn recently that holding onto a sense of constant appreciation quite literally (and biologically) eleminates the capability to feel fear.
Doesn't that sound like a coup you want to claim?
On the claiming note - how about reclaiming your joy a little? I know I want to. The weight of life can crush it so easily, yet my goodness - it's a powerful asset to own.
My darling friend Mez just inspired me to do an exercise (based on cognitive therapy) that can certainly help reclaim the joy. You need to list five things you're grateful for, five things you like about yourself and five things you would like to do for fun.
Can you do this relatively easily? Give it a go. It's not as easy as you think! If you can do it daily, you might even find yourself feeling joyful once again. And isn't that what life is all about?
five things I am grateful for.
Heating
Coffee
Long-arm staplers
Maps
Healthy children
five things I like about myself.
Honesty
Integrity
Creativity
Loyalty
Humout - ha ha ha haaa! Humour! (as opposed to humous)
five things I would like to do for fun.
Tip-toe on cobble stones through York
Fly a kite with the kids
Take a Thai cooking course
Learn how to convert books to ebook format
Sing
What are your five things?
4 comments:
5 things I am grateful for:
snow
my dog
healthy children
a loving husband
freedom of speech
5 things I like about myself:
honesty
integrity
passionate
creativity
nurturing
(sounds an awful lot like your list !)
5 things I would like to do for fun
enjoy a Steinlager at a NY bar
climb to the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
join a netball team
spend the Summer in the Nth Hem skiing with my family
visit China
dancing like mad, visits with my daughter, reading unputdownable books, cooking and eating with friends, gardening
Love you, Lou! How glorious to read. I'll join you for that Steinlager... x
Love the dancing like mad one, Lilith! Gorgeous. And of course, the unputdownable books... how valuable are they?
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