Today

Hey.....



Ever felt like you're 'stuck in a lift'....going up and down and can't get out....??

Metaphorically or otherwise, it becomes a source of frustration, being 'stuck in a lift'.  I suppose the time could be used productively, like writing the first line of that novel you promised yourself, writing a list of 'to do's', meditating, penning a sonnet to your loved one ;).  Instead we can become frustrated and intent on 'getting out', banging on the door when the phone in the lift is out of order.....ironically so.

So, take a deep breath.....1,2,3,4

• hold it....5,6,7
• and breathe out......8,9
• how does it feel?....
• just the same...??? 

So, take a deep breath....1,2,3,4

• hold it....5,6,7
• and breathe out...8,9
• how does it feel....?

You may think, how condescending, that you think something so simple will help.  I apologise, but give it a go, it may break the inner spiral between you and the threatening fear....in the nick of time.....entering you into a space that's in the here and now.  Perspective can be refocussed, altering the outcome, the decision, the action.....

Keep me in the here and now

So that I can pause and breathe

Shaking away the remnants

Of this morning's penetrating

Thoughts....

Before I could even

Blink an eye or

Raise a smile, the dirge

Of the past weeks

Played on

 

 

Take a little time to pause...for a moment.....and breathe.

 

And so to try it.......employing some stealth movements, catching mood moments unawares, highjacked by the pause button, hitting it before it could complain.  Resting the restless just for a moment or two, practice makes perfect....so they say.

 

Yep, the anxiety could recede, splintering the burgeoning panic...subsiding, when fragile mind may have been overtaken with confusion, collapsing in a pile.  Make time, therefore, to become in the here and now, backing out of the 'stuck in a lift' mode, where panic threatens to overtake and have its day.

 

Take a moment

Steal it from your worrying

Warrior, pack a bag

And elope for just a while

Relax on the beach of

Sanity, aware of

Your surroundings...only

Stay, book a sunbed

Feel it

The warmth of tranquility

Its heat penetrating

Your skin, forming a

Comforting layer

Covering you like a

Warm duvet

Encircling your mind, body and soul

Hold it for a second

Or two longer

Remembering the feeling

Of security saturation

Consolidate the journey

Recalling the wherewithal

To buy a season ticket 

For this destination

Of self care

 

What to do when we feel anxiety and panic rising....breathe in deeply, hold, breathe out.....and repeat.....it just might buy you enough time to change your mind.

 

 

xx