As our global need to recreate a sense of balance (in all things) spells itself out, over coming weeks, I believe the pandemic nature of this utterly unexpected worldwide scare is bound to impose changes for the better within our nation, as, suddenly, we’ve all had to confront reason to reconsider communal need to review the unbalanced persistence of our society’s over-worked mentality.
Let’s consider one of my closest friends, whose daily texts clearly express the depths of her stress, based in her self designed work schedule: Yesterday, I sent this reply to her most recent plea for help concerning her unmet need to unwind and relax: Just as you built up your private practice, years ago, to lovingly relieve some of your husband’s deeply stressed, financial pressures, now, it’s past time for you to release your hold on that baton at least enough to enjoy good health with your husband, who, having retired, has had time, over these past several years, to cultivate his newly relaxed state of mind. Just as with cultivating your garden from season to season, cultivating your relaxed state of mind will happen in step by step fashion, over time, if you offer yourself the same advice as you would to a client whose anxiety over any change, inclusive of positive change, proves in need of self-loving attitude adjustment.
Today, as with every day since my cancer diagnosis proved positive, my friend and I have exchanged morning and evening texts, wishing each other well, and, verbatim, here is what my response to my precious friend clarified for me:
Good morning S😊
Having been completely isolated for a while from all of the craziness that’s taking place beyond my front door, everything I hear from family and friends feels too surreal for my brain to absorb with anything resembling clarity, and the fact that, generally speaking, the absorption of ‘news’ proves anything but reassuring, I stopped reading the paper and watching news programs months ago in hopes of minimizing my anxiety from rising, once I became aware of my natural reaction upon processing bad news of any kind after the invasion of cancer had stimulated my body’s defense system to exist within a state of heightened alert.
So though I’ve successfully focused upon training my awareness to switch thoughts away from anything that exacerbates fear of any situation that proves beyond my control, now that the corona virus, which is affecting change in all of our lives, has been added into the mix, my fear for the good health of everyone I love tests my brain’s ability to maintain a balanced attitude so as to provide my processor with positive thoughts focusing upon regaining peace of mind with immediacy.
Upon second thought, reflection suggests that I’ve put my defense system to work at learning a new skill.
Perhaps, on a positive note, that’s why I’ve been choosing to sit on the floor, cleaning out over stuffed bathroom cabinets, which somehow feels necessary, being that tackling this chore, which has been put off for years, offers my think tank something to achieve that’s within my control to reorganize and improve on my own. You see, as long as I feel well enough to fill my time with sitting on the floor, emptying under counter cabinets, which have been over stuffed with items that women at the shelter of my choice would truly feel glad to receive, I’m feeling personally productive in a deeply heartfelt way, which keeps the reality of my naturally repressed personal fears in perspective with the ills of the world which are not mine to fear or combat while I’m contributing to the betterment of others in my own small ways. And as one thing leads to another, today’s train of thought makes me wonder what else will be cleaned out and donated after under counter cabinets are once again orderly and functional, again ...
My text when in to say that since my friend’s cabinets had been reorganized by a professional (a birthday gift from her son) not too long ago and since her mind continues to work in tandem with motivating clients in need of re-organizing disorder that’s clogged their minds with fears, left unexamined, perhaps ever since childhood, her thought to release anxious energy, today, by taking a long walk in the cool, crisp fresh air of the Midwest seems both personally productive and wisely healthy to me.
And now, having expressed my take within my reply to her most recent text, I’ve come to see my need to examine the darkly cloudy, fearsome state of my mind, thus clarifing my innermost need to expose repressed fears to the conscious portion of my mind, whicc, having remained focused upon reassuring my friend, freed my clogged sense of clarity to move through the healthy process of rebalancing itself based in the fact that my innermost thoughts have been busily airing themselves so as to be clearly re-evaluated by my smarts before sending today’s string of insights on the wings of love first to my friend and now, to you, too!
Whew! I feel so much better since my spirit’s smile, feeling freed of repressed fear, has begun to inspire my think tank to tackle another cabinet in need of cleaning out followed by reorganizing that while I choose to keep in the same rebalanced manner as writing this post has cleaned out and reorganized my present state of mind. And having aired my own clogged fears upon sending my thoughts into cyberspace, I hope you can feel my love walking beside you, caring about your welfare, wherever in this wide wide world you call home, because though you and I may never be fated to meet, face to face, we can each participate in some small and yet generous way to heal the wounded spirits of countless folk whose homes have been destroyed by natural forces and even worse, whose hearts have faced devastation, cast uncaringly, by those whose thought processors remain focused solely upon empowering personal greed to splinter our nation’s dire need to elect governing officials, whose heartfelt intent has long been focused upon reconstructing every inner strength that our current administration and paralyzed Senate have undermined by concentrating mentally unstable mindsets solely upon oneself and one’s cronies, who, inclusive of the 1%, are known to hoard the wealth of our nation, creating sound reason for widespread fury to run rampant through our streets—hopefully, straight toward voting booths, where, this coming November, we can each empower ourselves to disenfranchise megalomaniacs who, aping trump, demonstrate how little they care for the common good ... and
Once again, we see my fearful attitude, having undergone a self-motivated, rebalanced state of mind, expanding my thought processor’s conscious capacity to switch tracks from highly personal situations, beyond my control, toward seriously reconsidering our communal need to right the sorry wrongs perpetrated upon our great nation’s downtrodden families as the momentous election of the next president of the USA draws near.
Bottom line—the most important decision that the majority of deep thinking American adults has ever made, concerning communal need to expand your political mindset and mine, is upon us, right now, as your right to vote and mine lead the young of our nation toward (or farther away from) change for the better, which has been stalled, perhaps ever since the mindset of our nation as a whole was deeply traumatized during the paralyzing aftermath of President Kennedy’s televised, violent murder, which proved to be the first of many, thus initiating a negatively focused, widespread domino effect, which has continued to spiral way beyond our nation’s ability to rebalance our adult population’s sense of internal logic-based, emotionally mature, self control—until now, when hopefully, this up coming election inspires our processors, more than ever before, to open our eyes to personal necessity to identify repressed fears, which blind us to need to examine the ways that subconscious anxiety, triggered to spike by current events, releases yesteryear’s unexamined vulnerabilities to debilitate our personal strengths, which we’ve each worked so hard to develop ...
So, if you’re as furious, deep within, as is true of me then please choose to run as fast as you can to vote for candidates, whose promise of change for the better is not undermined by feeding endless lies to selfish attitudes, which persist within think tanks that squeeze their smarts under red hats that continue to prove more narrow minded than my rebalanced think tank can believe. If trump’s presidency has clarified one thought for me, it’s the fact that the minds of many millions of American voters remain clogged with many more darkly clouded emotional disturbances than is true of my think tank, which benefits from receiving frequent, self motivated, well oiled tune ups, and as today’s tune up is under my belt, off I go to make sound use of my brain and my time to ready small items to send to spirits, which are highly likely in need of cheering up ...
😷🌈🌻🦚Annie
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