Singing is my favorite!
School is back in session. For some of you this can be a stressful time while others are excited to get back into the classroom to teach or learn. This week we will revisit the topic of distressing and lifting others up!
Go to your thinking chair. Now get up and go somewhere completely different. Doing this can bring you a different perspective on things. It can open your eyes to a different view of the world. Sometimes we get in a rut and only see things as if everything is one-sided. Try to avoid this.
Lock yourself in a room, turn up the music, and have a private dance party by yourself or invite your best friend and jump up and down and dance the stress out!
Sing! Sing as if the world is your audience. Use proper technique while doing so (that is something you will have to ask a voice teacher about) but just sing and be happy! I suggest singing Total Eclipse of The Heart after last week!
Take time to daydream. See what your future is looking like. How many kids do you have? What is your spouse like? Where do you live? Did you finally get that promotion you worked so hard for or just daydream about what you are going to be having for dinner.
Look up some breathing exercises; maybe go to a yoga class and learn to meditate. Just find something that can be a you thing and all that is involved is you escaping the thousands of thoughts running through your head each day.
Go to coffee with a friend. You can catch up about each other’s lives, get in a dose of caffeine, and just vent about something bad that happened so you can get it off your chest. Let them do the same. Take time to care about others as well as yourself. Listen. Love. Smile.
Take a walk in the park. The Flatwoods city park has an amazing track around it. If you want a bigger area, go to the Ashland Central Park. It’s absolutely amazing and fall is approaching us and the area parks are breath taking in the fall.
Find a pond, creek, some sort of running water and just enjoy the sound. Close your eyes. Breathe, relax, and love life.
Smile! I know it takes more muscles to smile than it does to frown. I’m sure there is a lot you’re that is on your mind. Stop. Smile. Just a gentle, warmhearted smile can change a person’s day.
Tell someone thanks and show your appreciation by sending a hand written sentiment. I love reading notes in the mail. It brightens my day, so I’m sure it does this for others.
Work towards a goal that you just day dreamed about.
Draw or color! Personally coloring in those new adult coloring books stress me out so I don’t do them as a stress reliever I color in them because the pictures are pretty! Also I frequently go out of the lines…it happens.
Go to the library and check out a new book. I know that the Flatwoods Library is amazing! The staff is constantly trying to come up with new events like cricket club, playing D&D with the patrons and library-con. They come together and give us something to do and help us make fun memories! Visit them! They are wonderful!
Leave a positive note for someone to find, offering him or her encouragement. Shine down on them with some much needed happiness that we all need. There needs to be more love spread around.
In closing you are beautiful. You are important. Never give up. Keep trying. Words can’t bring you down. You are loved.
Until next time Life, Taxes and…
Josh
