Well first of all, today was day one on Weight Watchers. I feel very good and in control and happy and I still have points left over as I sip a nice smoothie. Gooooo Meeeee!!!!! I had oatmeal and fruit for breakfast, a delicious veggie and noodle soup and crackers for lunch, more fruit as a snack, and spaghetti squash with meat and sauce for dinner. Plus I snacked on cherry tomatoes and am having a vanilla berry smoothie. Okay not that you really cared, but when I look at it it sounds like a lot, and yet it was all healthy and wise choices. I'm proud. Haha. That's what I was gonna originally blog about and then changed my mind and yet I still went on a bout it anyway. Oh well. It's MY blog right? In an ironic twist I am watching the Laverne & Shirley episode where they go to a weight-loss health spa :)
Back to 'setting the tone'. Though our minds and thoughts are our own, our feelings and emotions are definitely greatly influenced by our surroundings. I can be in a bad mood and it can change in an instant when I see my daughters. Or conversely I can be in a great mood, happy go lucky, and then hear the sarcastic tone of a coworker speaking rudely to a customer on the phone and it takes my mood to minus 20. Sometimes I wish I just didn't care. That nobody could affect me in negative ways, especially when the negativity doesn't even involve me at all. And yet there it is. I hafta wonder if it is something one can really truly control - build a positive mental wall that nobody can break down to keep the negative out. Maybe more like a force field where all the crap is still out there floating around but doesn't touch us and bring us down. Guess I'm just dreaming. But I will try to remember my dream tomorrow when I am once again affected by the negative, and perhaps envision that force field and keep a smile not only on the outside but within as well. Wish me luck. Seems every day is a day one for something or other.
Xoxo
- me
Hey Lisa,
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your new healthier eating!
I really do believe that we can get to a place where other people's words and actions do not affect our moods. In studying this I have learned that I have to take my judgment of others out of the equation to truly allow them to be, do and say whatever they want, and then quickly move my focus away from that which does not make me happy... time to think of your daughters or something else that brings feelings of appreciation and joy. Sometimes my mood still goes down, but I can make it rise again much faster with these beliefs, I expect to master this someday soon, and it will be like the force field you described, I like that, I will envision it as part of my mastery of this subject. Thank you, good luck to you! Like everything else in life, it can be done with desire, focus and habit of thought. xoxo
Thanks for that. Maybe you do have a point there about the judgement thing. I think there are a few certain individuals that I have known so long that I automatically place them in a 'catagory' and it's just the way I've come to see them, regardless of what each new day holds. I will work on that. Thanks :)
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