Monday's Mood

Hello once more,

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Moods..what makes us wake up with a grey day?........yet the night before it was all razzle, then dazzle; the oddity of nodding off in full spirits only to wake fed up to the back teeth, low as ditch water mmm......the highs and lows of day to day life.

Tossing and turning, pillowed and pummelled, fidgeting left and right, testing our sleep skills, passing or failing the slumber net.  Upon waking...is it good :)))) or bad :(((( ....has the sleep train carried the depression gene? showering us with low tones hooked in and trailblazing, networking the sadness vibes and striking us down with sombre sadness.

If we're out of sorts for too long we can give the thumbs up to insidious creeping whereby prolonged downers can become entrenched and begin to grip us tightly.  Focus on the triggers, have you noticed what stings and bites?  If so, have you a plan, a simplistic strategy, what makes you feel better.....exercise is a given, yet it's hard to muster the get up and go when it's got up and gone!!!

Strike me down with insistent

Moaning, that life's a drudge

Stealing me away to the melancholy

Cave of 'back in the day, when I was young'

'The grass is greener' plays repeatedly

The plunging into the well of 'poor me'

 

Save me from this hell hole

Sing out loud and play me a

Soulful tune that thrives

Eliciting the feel good hormone

Shifting from stagnant, lifting

My arms and legs in unison

 

It is vital to have a plan when life's hopscotch becomes nigh on impossible to skip any further, when you feel that the settee is your only friend and the TV your companion.  Whilst these can be comforting, they are but part of the rich tapestry, a jigsaw piece in your journey of living.

 

But hey......that's not helping, so tap into a friend - one you can trust and send voice vibrations down the line, reach out to someone or something.....it's good to talk.....it does help.  Putting ups and downs into perspective and helping to clear out the baggage so there's room in your suitcase for the things you need and want to carry.

 

Think of it like going away, what to pack????.......it can be so confusing to choose what to take and what to leave behind, but in order to get to the getaway goal and reach our departure and destination, we are ultimately successful in our choice.  Occasionally regretting our packing skills once we've reached our holiday home, wondering and thinking the other outfit (now lying on the bed) would have been just right in the here and now.  Think it through.....does/has it changed your life in any drastic measure? Can you still enjoy your break away?  What do you do to decide to continue to enjoy your r and r?  

 

A soulful short sabbatical

Packing my peace companion

Leisurely lounging, lingering

And basking in sunny climate

Reassuring my bones, resting

Overworked mind and body

Feel the heat, hear

The breeze

The ocean cascading back and forth

Shifting times sand particles

Relish the here and now

It is your only moment
Sense it, smell it

Breathe it in....right now

 

I single myself out to concentrate, what is happening around me, to me, at this very moment?  Never mind yester-year or tomorrows tide.  My head calls out for a mindset change so I can continue in life and reach a level of enjoyment, keeping it real.  Remembering the need to let in the sadder times, acknowledging them and giving them their 'centre stage' but not 1st prize, a gold medal in 'worry weaving'.  Let them in and allow them time, then cast them away, perhaps via cathartic exercise.

 

Walk with purposeful step

Pick up the paper that looks your way

The blank sheet awaits

The space looks long and empty

Your head space is full

Fill it with random words

Orderly format....if you prefer

It doesn't need to make any sense

Unless you have other ideas

 

Maybe try.......what do you feel right now, lock into what is happening....now....

 

Head hurts, mind's blocked

Body shivers, skin goosed

I feel heavy

Lack energy to respond

 

Or.....

 

I want to be alive

Hold happiness

Raise my eyelashes

To the heavens

Feeling the rain drench me

Running down my face, my neck

Rinsing hell's river to the wide ocean

Allowing myself to live

I discard this corset that keeps

My innermost thoughts in check

I sit down and read the memoir

Choosing a place for this journeys end

I take a purposeful step to hold acceptance

And value the release it leaves behind  









Talking myself into posititivity, I forge forward lifting up my body from the sofa that has comforted for far too long and move out into the fresh air, attaching my brain to my leg movements and placing one foot and then the next, the next, the next......one , two, one, two...........until I look back and see, to my surprise and delight, how far I've come.

 

Go to it.....
 

LAURA