Daily Gratitude: I am sure I’ve written about this before but I truly enjoy new takes on old concepts. It’s all about perspective and our interpretation of things that happen to us and around us. If we look at something as an annoyance, then its impact on us won’t be very big. It will just be another thing in the course of the day. If we look at it with major drama, then it will become a significant event in our lives and perhaps all else will have to stop until that one thing is resolved. This can be the same thing but looked at so differently by two different people. How do you view things? Are there some categories that invoke significant responses and some that don’t? That would not be surprising but it might be worth looking into to see if it can provide any clue as to why certain events stimulate your nervous system more than others. You can find a lot about your past as well as your present but checking out your responses and reactions. We should aim to be able to put an event or occurrence objectively into a table where we can simply examine it and use logic (not emotions) to evaluate it. When we can do that, it will help our entire bodies not respond with illness and stress. Practice with simple things – lay them out and go through what’s happened using logical objective criteria. The more you practice the easier it will become.

Daily Gratitude: How often do we get a “crick” in the neck when we’re looking back? When that happens, we remain stuck with our head in the rear position. What happens then is that we are unable to move our head and eyes back to the front. It’s so important for us to always be able to have “eyes forward” all the time. If we’ve looked back it should only be to see what lessons the universe has given us to help us with our next steps. Then it’s time to apply those lessons to our current situation and make our next actions based on the lessons.

Daily Gratitude: I found this recently and think it’s excellent and I’ve added it to my list of important mantras. It goes quite well with “this, too, shall pass”. Some days are terrific and you never want them to end. It pays to not go overboard in excitement on these days because the pendulum will eventually swing the other way. This is not negative thinking. It’s just the cyclical nature of the universe. Don’t spend a lot of time worrying about when things will change. Just don’t be surprised when it does. Along those same lines just know that when things aren’t that great, this will change to a diamond day! You can look forward to that. Life is full of ups and downs and things continually change. Learn to roll with the flow.