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We’re Trying to Do
Something Here
I won’t keep
you long. I just wanted to share with you a little mantra that seems to be
working for me.
At the end
of June I officially became a member of the menopause club. My doctor offered
me the magic pill that would start my period again, but I told her that I would
be buying a white pant suit instead.
When the
small bursts of heat began to flash at the upper part of my body, I made the
logical connection between my thoughts and the heat; when I was angry,
frustrated, fearful or worried, I felt the rush. I no longer get those heat
burst; I have learned to change my thoughts and my body has responded.
Sounds crazy
I know, but start the practice and see what happens for you.
Anyway, what
I had been having trouble with is all of the other crazy little things that
come along with it. Sometimes I want candy that I’ve never ever liked. Sometimes
I want to skip my daily “exercise” routines and sometimes I just can’t write.
Here’s the good news, my little
mantra that seems to be working has been working on everything and it’s simply
this;
“We’re trying to do something here.”
I say it when
I want to go off course, when I want to get angry, when I feel the need to tell
folks who have been on my nerves that
they are on my nerves. When I feel
compelled to tell my children to go swim the English Channel, I tell myself, “We’re
trying to do something here.”
When I want
to eat something ridiculous, like the Oreo cupcakes my daughter made last
night, “We’re trying to do something
here.”
It’s a way of reminding yourself that
you have a bigger goal; the outcome of which is greater than the momentary
pleasure of the temptation to go off course.
Stay on the
course of becoming your best.
Soon you will say, I’ve
done something here.
Be you, be well, be
wonderful.
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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