Hello sweet reader do you know that I love you? I bet you do :) And I hope you think about me too in your meditations and maybe you travel to visit me in my little part of the world and our astral projections can mingle and dance and make love together in the ehter.
Today i want to cover a "dark" topic: "Sadness". Ok, ok, don't leave, i know it's scary but it's something we must all face on our "trip". The first thing i want to tell you is when you get the blues, you can take measures to get out of it. I want to give you Randy's ultimate recipes to "turn those blues... into a RAINBOW"
1. Meat new people I love makeing new friends it makes you feel happy and appreciated so go out there and experience all the other humans on earth. Why be antisocial and closed off, Clammy McClammerson???? Interact with real humans! Great places to start are "facebook", "twitter", "friendster", "online forums", "youtube comments", and "Skype". Get a social life. GO!
2. Think of all the good things in your life. When i get the blues i look out the window at my beautiful daughters growing in the backyard and i feel "fuzzy" again. I remember that they need me to water them and give them hugs and keep the squirrells away from their faces and that one day they will become beautiful tall plants and i will be able to hang my hammock on them maybe too.
3. Remember "God"- whoever god may be to you, remember he is there. For me, that god is the sun. I look up at it and try to be one with it. I look straight into it and try to understand its magic. But everytime I do my eyes hurt just like "Apollo" when he looked at the sun with his glasses made of wax (greek mythology nerd alert!!). So remember, you dont need to "see" god, just "feel" him there. In my case, feeling god requires SPF 30 protection.
4. Pamper yourself. When the blues gets powerful, so must our tools to fight it. That's why my freezer is always stocked with "Cherry Garcia" and "Chubby Hubby" ben & jerrys. Everytime something gets me down, I open a pint and enter the "green dimension" and everythig is a-ok. Some days i can even eat 4 or 5 they're so good and comforting!
5. Never ever ever admit you ever were, are, or will be "wrong" or "at fault" about ANYTHING- This is "self-destructive" attitude and it works against your sense of well-being. Can you imagine a world where everyone is always blaming themselves for things they did and trying to change? Wow what a nightmare. Remember you are a perfect being of "light" and god made you perfect and nothing you do is wrong. You are alright with me. Feel good about yourself! :-)
6. "Laughter the best medicine" - Its' true! Laughter helps. Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, LAUGH out loud for 5 minutes and you'll feel great. I was feeling blue in line at the post office last week because it was overcast and couln't "feel" god. Well, a good five minute laugh illuminated my soul. And everyone in line was rejuvenated too i think. They all felt so good that they either left or let me go ahead of them.
7. Watch "Geraldo"- I do this every day and it's my favorite part of the day always. I believe Geraldo is an angel of God and also I hope we can be friends someday :-)
8. Listen to music- Zappa, anyone ???? :-)
9. Draw smiley faces I have entire blank journals that i filled with nothing but smiley faces. Just sitting down and completely filling 10 or 20 journal pages with nothing but smiley faces is very therapeutic and makes you feel ok again. It's like happyness osmosis or something. One day I hope to publish all my smiley face journals to help others see :-)
10. Break stuff with a hammer When all else fails, blow off some steam! I always leave a few hammers handy around the house. In the kitchen, the living room, the attic. You never know when you'll just need that sweet release. And when you need it, it's good to have a hammer to just grab and use to smash the closest thing you have near you to pieces. I can't think of anything I can't completely decimate with a hammer! Given the time, I could even tear down a cement wall. Sometimes if i just can't take it I have a big scrap pile in the backyard i go to. I replenish it by loading up random things at the landfill on my pickup truck and then dumpig it in the backyard. Essentially, i go back there and break every single thing in sight with my hammer. Teapots, car parts, old shoes, televisions, tables, whatever i can get lay my hands on. I take my clothes off for therapeutic effect so I am more "free" in my movements and motions also. When I'm done I take the broken stuff back to the landfill and load up with fresh new "whole" things for the next time. This only happens 2 or 3 times each week. (note- make sure you always have bandaids)
I hope you too, lovely reader, can do these things and find peace within you. Until next time, I love you.
1 comment:
Randy,
Can I add a #11? My cats. When I feel sad, I stroke Peppers, my tabby cat. or Mittens, or Gus, or Rosebud or Sunbreath. When I am crying in the dark at night because I just feel so alone, Rosebud is the one who crawls on my chest as if to say, it's ok to be sad sometimes. it's ok mommy.
but not Thomas. Thomas was an evil cat. He had a mustache just like hitler. he was a kitler. I am a strong believer in karma randy, and there's a good chance, this is him. luckily, I also share #10 of your list.
randy, in the interest of #1, would you be my friend? I am very shy, and reclusive but I have love in my heart for all of gods creatures, and I would love your daughters as my own. I would like you to be my friend.
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