Happiness comes and goes. I have been watching myself recently and my mood changes more quickly than Nicola changes her clothes in the morning (yes that often!). I can wake up at six and be happy. By eight for no apparent reason I can be unhappy. If I leave for work early I am happy. When I see the roadworks ahead I start worrying . . . and as they magically clear before me I cheer up again. Once I arrive at work for the day and look at my appointment list for the day I can relax and be happy, until somebody else gets booked in and changes my mood. Or conversely I can see a certain person booked in and my heart sinks until that is they cancel, and life is good again. So it goes, minute by minute, hour by hour throughout the day.
But there is more, there is something deeper. My moods are like the waves on the ocean ever changing, ever rising and falling. Living by the Pacific Ocean as I do I see the waves daily and yet underneath there are deeper much more powerful currents that you can only experience if you immerse your self in the water. And so it is with my moods, underneath lie deeper powerful emotions that in my case seem to be my own particular fusion of melancholy and happiness.
How do you immerse yourself to find these deeper currents you ask? . . . Meditate.
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4 comments:
I was going to suggest meditation and yoga. What wonderful tools to get the mind centered and calm. I love your writing.
Thank you for sharing your writing with us. I know feelings such as these well, and also practice awareness to help me stay attached to reality, when the thoughts in my head tell me all is not going to be OK. It helps me immensely.
Just found your blog and feel like I've found myself, strange to see my words and feelings said by someone else. All the best, I'm sure we'll both pass throught this phase better than we went in. Kristina
Gosh - don't feel like that sometimes as well Ingrid.
good luck
peter
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