Monday Motivation
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My idea for this week involves a snow globe.
Look around right now. Everything you see and hear… everything in your current environment… Imagine all of it is enclosed in a giant snow globe.
Your past is not in this snow globe, and neither is your future.
Instead, your snow globe only contains the here and now.
OK, look up from your device and picture yourself in that giant snow globe.
Now, knowing that you’re in the snow globe, try to let go of any worries you’re having about the past or the future. Just focus on what you can control within your snow globe. Do you need to get a task done? Take care of a family member or pet? Do something to take care of yourself?
Life becomes simpler when you stop thinking about EVERYTHING and instead focus on living in your snow globe.
This “snow globe” mental image could help during difficult times, too. Instead of getting lost and overwhelmed…
Bring yourself back inside your snow globe.
Then deal with what you can control inside your snow globe—not with all the things that might or might not happen.
If time is a line, you can imagine yourself progressing along that line inside your snow globe. All you ever really have to deal with is the present moment.
That present moment (your snow globe) just keeps moving along with you.
And remind yourself that, no matter what happens, you can handle this present moment.
So try it out — and see if this mental image of a snow globe helps you.
Have a great week ahead!
~ Adrienne
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Monday Motivation
I love this! I’m sitting on my deck, watching hummingbirds and searching for a hummingbird nest that I think is nearby in the trees. When I do this, I am doing is focusing on the hummingbirds, which is very very relaxing. Have a great Labor Day!
Thank you for this idea. I’m a writer, but I’m a technical writer, not a prose writer. My therapist would like me to write/draw in a journal for the 2.5 weeks she is off visiting family and friends in her home country (a former soviet state). My kids (adult kids) were adopted from Russia at the ages of 25 months--daughter--and 8.5 months--son, not related. My therapist knows about orphanage life in the former Soviet Union. I’ve been under massive stress for 19 years from my kids’ permanent brain damage (FAS--fetal alcohol syndrome), extreme ADHD (think ADHD on mega-steroids), their own PTSD (both kids had to learn how to cry. Crying meant nothing in an orphanage, it only wasted energy.)
Looking at life in a snow globe will help me bring today into focus, rather than dwelling on the past. Thank you for sharing this tip. 😊