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[feline groovy]

(Fred Rogers)

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Something I try 24/7/365 to keep reminding myself...

Especially as an empath w/ natural anxiety who reads just about everything.  ;-)

Thought it was something positive everyone could use, especially if you (like me) prefer to remain informed.

[meallen616]

[butterfly123]

@feline groovy

Hello friend, 

Hope you are doing well and enjoying your fruits and veggies. 

Would you mind sharing some titles of books, you have enjoyed? 

Thank you 😊 

[Oznell]

Whenever I've had anxiety, I've found that these three fragments of the 23rd Psalm are enormously calming to repeat in my mind. 

Even just  "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want" results in a more tranquil, accepting mindset, and I can feel my breathing slowing!

Or "...Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I wil fear no evil:  for thou art with me;  thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."

And, finally, this phrase from it is both poetry and therapy:   "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:  and I will drell in the house of the Lord for ever."

Once when I had a medical emergency, they were my highest comfort...

[Mominohio]

The phrase

"it is what it is"

helps me to stay calm. It is true in so many instances. It can't be changed, only dealt with. So realizing that something "is" is the beginning of finding solutions, adaptations, alternatives, help, support etc. It kind of removes the 'what if' or the 'unknown' for me.

For me, there is so often so much worry about something (say a medical test you wait for results on), when in fact, the reality is already there, I'm just waiting to know what that reality is.  

[cherry]

This too shall pass, has always bucked me up, when I needed it

[Noel7]

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

[Noel7]

When it comes to the seemingly unbearable, I remind myself of Kubler-Ross's work on the five stages of grief:

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

We need to know those are normal and it's OK to feel them all.  We've had a lot of extended family stress lately.  One of our own has been very ill.

[noodleann]

Sometimes laughter is the best antidote to stress and a tense situation.

As I was approaching my car in the WM parking lot today, I saw one of those "Keep Calm" stickers on the pickup next to it. The sticker was pink, and I thought how curious, a British-type bumper sticker on a RAM.

I got closer and saw that it said "Keep Calm and Kiss My [Ahem]."  Instead of a crown at the top, there was a lip print.

Got a laugh out of this grump.

[kelsey17]