I always start my blog with the mantra of the day (even though you would only read it at the end). It gives me a way to focus on where I will be going with my writing and these are what mantras do, they help you to focus your mind, for as long as you need it to, so that you can get to where you want to go.
I hope that my mantras do help others, if they do I would love to hear feedback, maybe even share with me what your daily mantra is.
Mantra of the day:
I HAVE INNER STRENGTH
It is a simple and very short mantra but these few words really say a lot.
*****
Now for a bit of sad news. An amazing young boy passed on this week, here’s a bit of his story. I would love to send my love to Bonnie. I’ll be thinking of you on Friday.
Jed Brady Thomas was born the 4th of November, 2004.
He was diagnosed with Brain Cancer at age three. He fought the Cancer with the courage which many grown men lack.
He lost the fight on the 11th of July, 2011.
His service will be this coming Friday, the 15th of July at the Edenvale Baptist Church, 92 Voortrekker Street cnr of 7th St. Edenvale at 11:00. His parents extend an open invitation to anyone who would like to join them in celebrating his larger-than-life life.
Jed's favorite colour was green. Even if you cannot attend his service and life celebration, please wear green on Friday 15 July 2011 in honour of the Jed Brady Thomas Suckling and wear a gold ribbon in support of Childhood Cancer.
Bright Blessings
xxxxx
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Cry. You Deserve To.
Feel like you are falling apart? You are not alone and you may have noticed that the people around you may be feeling the same way.
Over the past few weeks everything seems to have been leading up towards emotional chaos. I can see it in the news as well as the person sitting next to me in the office. As some of you may know, I work for Oprah, I work in the Advertising sales department for O, The Oprah Magazine in South Africa.
As a result, yes a work in an office with almost ten women but no one has been snappy and mean (rare for this kind of environment). The women here working with me have been amazing and supportive to one another as we all go through our individual crisis, and we have all had huge crisis over the past few weeks with this week being the cherry on top. We feel strong enough to cry in front of each other and compassionate enough to listen and give a hug.
I know I’ve cried a little over these past few weeks, on my own as well as on the shoulders of friends and family.
Naturally I would love to come up with the all powerful emotional quick fix but unfortunately it doesn’t exist. The only advice I can give is to not hide away and feel alone, there is always someone out there and when you are down, it is the worst time for you to cut other people out.
All I can suggest is for you to stay strong, hang in there. It may be tough now but believe that at the end of the day we can land on our feet, with our heads held high and surrounded by love.
I won’t lie, it won’t be easy from this point on but it is a good starting point for your next step forward.
Mantra of the day:
Today I will be okay
It is a simple and very short mantra but these few words really say a lot.
Bright Blessings
xxxxx
Over the past few weeks everything seems to have been leading up towards emotional chaos. I can see it in the news as well as the person sitting next to me in the office. As some of you may know, I work for Oprah, I work in the Advertising sales department for O, The Oprah Magazine in South Africa.
As a result, yes a work in an office with almost ten women but no one has been snappy and mean (rare for this kind of environment). The women here working with me have been amazing and supportive to one another as we all go through our individual crisis, and we have all had huge crisis over the past few weeks with this week being the cherry on top. We feel strong enough to cry in front of each other and compassionate enough to listen and give a hug.
I know I’ve cried a little over these past few weeks, on my own as well as on the shoulders of friends and family.
Naturally I would love to come up with the all powerful emotional quick fix but unfortunately it doesn’t exist. The only advice I can give is to not hide away and feel alone, there is always someone out there and when you are down, it is the worst time for you to cut other people out.
All I can suggest is for you to stay strong, hang in there. It may be tough now but believe that at the end of the day we can land on our feet, with our heads held high and surrounded by love.
I won’t lie, it won’t be easy from this point on but it is a good starting point for your next step forward.
Mantra of the day:
Today I will be okay
It is a simple and very short mantra but these few words really say a lot.
Bright Blessings
xxxxx
Monday, 11 July 2011
Give me some sugar
Nobody said life would be easy, we have all been aware of this from the time we were old enough to acknowledge the existence of life outside of the home our parents built (and not necessarily good homes at that).
So going out into the unknown, to a degree we expect hard times but we also expect good times. We hoped the good times would be more frequent and would outweigh the hard times by far. Yet as we go along we tend to find out that it really is more the other way around.
And things can be harder than we expected, nobody had warned us about that happening! Not even our parents.
So we learn to grow from those hard times and learn, as an animal gathers nuts when getting ready to hibernate for winter, that we must gather our strength in the good times. We gather strength when we can because we know subconsciously that something bad might happen when we turn the next corner of our lives, and probably will until we make the situation work for us, this is one of the natural consequences of facing change.
When will life give way and give us rest. Do we have to wait until the end of it all before we find peace? Or rather do we just get used to drinking lemon juice while hoping for lemonade.
Let’s be positive for a moment… Now this is a hard exercise!
Well if I can’t be positive, let me go through a few facts.
It is midwinter here for me. This means, as it should naturally happen, that brain chemicals have changed for everyone, causing a natural state of stillness. The reason for this is so that we, as humans, don’t over exert ourselves and can naturally gain weight for our bodies to be safer from the cold, of course the gods have forgotten we have created an array of winter clothing and credit cards so the extra weight isn’t needed all that much these days.
However for us poor souls suffering with chemical imbalances within the brain (and the numbers are growing), we get SAD, not as in “unhappy”, well kind of.
SAD or also known as Seasonally Affected Depression is when the brain chemicals over compensate for the change in the seasons, so instead of becoming chilled (pun intended) we become depressed, sometimes severely so.
Throw into the mix a whole bunch of crap. A truly tough time that life just wants to throw at you. But you haven’t gathered all your nuts for winter, so that’s what you become, and psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies are the only ones left smiling.
Where to from here? We can put bright lights in our homes and fire up the heaters to try and convince our brains that it’s spring, and let our wallets suffer, or we can find the spoon full of sugar to help the medicine go down.
A spoon full of sugar can be a good friend and a glass of wine or a purring cat and a good book.
Block out the world, block out everything you don’t NEED (including the cellphone, there’s a silent function for a reason) and have your sugar. Indulge if you can… why not!
So if you take anything away from this (hopefully none of the depressing stuff) it’s that life happens and we can’t always deal with it but if we try to bring something good into our lives and can take time to light incense and a candle or two, perhaps we can find something else that we didn’t know was there. A hidden stack of nuts, which is what we’ll be the next morning when we face life again, but more importantly what those nuts represent, a little bit of hidden strength we had forgotten about.
So going out into the unknown, to a degree we expect hard times but we also expect good times. We hoped the good times would be more frequent and would outweigh the hard times by far. Yet as we go along we tend to find out that it really is more the other way around.
And things can be harder than we expected, nobody had warned us about that happening! Not even our parents.
So we learn to grow from those hard times and learn, as an animal gathers nuts when getting ready to hibernate for winter, that we must gather our strength in the good times. We gather strength when we can because we know subconsciously that something bad might happen when we turn the next corner of our lives, and probably will until we make the situation work for us, this is one of the natural consequences of facing change.
When will life give way and give us rest. Do we have to wait until the end of it all before we find peace? Or rather do we just get used to drinking lemon juice while hoping for lemonade.
Let’s be positive for a moment… Now this is a hard exercise!
Well if I can’t be positive, let me go through a few facts.
It is midwinter here for me. This means, as it should naturally happen, that brain chemicals have changed for everyone, causing a natural state of stillness. The reason for this is so that we, as humans, don’t over exert ourselves and can naturally gain weight for our bodies to be safer from the cold, of course the gods have forgotten we have created an array of winter clothing and credit cards so the extra weight isn’t needed all that much these days.
However for us poor souls suffering with chemical imbalances within the brain (and the numbers are growing), we get SAD, not as in “unhappy”, well kind of.
SAD or also known as Seasonally Affected Depression is when the brain chemicals over compensate for the change in the seasons, so instead of becoming chilled (pun intended) we become depressed, sometimes severely so.
Throw into the mix a whole bunch of crap. A truly tough time that life just wants to throw at you. But you haven’t gathered all your nuts for winter, so that’s what you become, and psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies are the only ones left smiling.
Where to from here? We can put bright lights in our homes and fire up the heaters to try and convince our brains that it’s spring, and let our wallets suffer, or we can find the spoon full of sugar to help the medicine go down.
A spoon full of sugar can be a good friend and a glass of wine or a purring cat and a good book.
Block out the world, block out everything you don’t NEED (including the cellphone, there’s a silent function for a reason) and have your sugar. Indulge if you can… why not!
So if you take anything away from this (hopefully none of the depressing stuff) it’s that life happens and we can’t always deal with it but if we try to bring something good into our lives and can take time to light incense and a candle or two, perhaps we can find something else that we didn’t know was there. A hidden stack of nuts, which is what we’ll be the next morning when we face life again, but more importantly what those nuts represent, a little bit of hidden strength we had forgotten about.
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