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Thought For The Evening

Focus on making things better, not bigger.

When The Going Gets Rough

When we get anxious driving through a tunnel, rather than try to escape, the best option is to keep going. The feelings will pass. The tunnel will end.

Negative Thought Stopping

Trying to stop thoughts is like trying to hold an enormous beach ball under water! No matter how hard we hold it down, that ball's always gonna pop back up!  We can choose to let the ball float all around us - to let those thoughts be.

The negative thought loop mind monsters need food to survive! They feed on our reactions. If we let them be, they'll eventually go off seeking sustenance elsewhere!

Today

Today, knowing that life and I are messy works in progress, I am willing to accept myself with all my perfections and imperfections, just the way I am.

How about you?

Liam's Monster

Taking a walk the other night, Dacey and I passed a gallery window filled with felted monsters. She loved them! They really made her laugh.

Later, when I got home, I tried making one out of some scraps. I couldn't seem to cut what I saw, and after a couple of hours, got frustrated, decided monster making wasn't for me and gave up.

One of my Northern friends, with reference to getting indoor plumbing, used the phrase "the things we do for our offspring" ... That truth prevailed and a few days later I tried monster making again, this time horns first, and voila! the beautiful, leopard skinned monster above appeared. She loved him and called him Cheeta Monster (Chaunster)

Next on the list was precious Liam Tracy.  Making Liam's monster was pure fun and I can't wait to put him in the mail tomorrow.