This may be cheating… because I know we’re not supposed to re-read our morning pages for 8 weeks at least… but I wrote this, this morning. and then realized what I’d done. heh.
“My first line… was going to lead into my awful experience the night before last and how I realized that i had been off my meds for two weeks… so maybe that encouraged the overreaction and intense ricidulous distress… but then I caught the scent of the coffee..
That was such a better path to take. So that’s what this “be in the moment” thing is all about. smell the coffee before you down it. feel the breeze on your arms, bare or not. notice the ache in your back. right behind your heart in fact. look at the light, bright, gray in the sky. and the flames in the candles, in the fireplace. listen to the birds whistling, sprinkles sputtering. engines revving. coffee pot clinking. raise your arms over your head and stretch if you want to. so much nicer than analyzing what’s already hapened. re-worrying about what you’ve already figured out. Action. Relaxation. Be here. Now.”
enough said?
