Lolling around indoors during a summer downpour, vibr8 is pondering life, but not too deeply

Date:   6/4/2005 5:08:53 PM ( 19 y ago)

Livin' should be so easy in the summertime, according to the age-old song. Don't know about where you are, but here there have been torrential rainstorms for almost 24 hours. Highways were flooding, and one neighborhood flooded. This sort of thing doesn't usually happen in Colorado. What's up with this?

Well, weather is something that the average citizen is absolutely powerless over. Therefore, I may as well not go on and on about the inclement weather. It's so...victimish. No, that's not a word; I just made it up.

For once, since this is a blog, I'm just going to be bloggish (another made-up word) and journal in a stream-of-consciousness manner. I don't usually do this, but today that's the way it's going to be.

Summertime is such a time of hedonistic expectations. The glorious relief of nice long vacation, for example. Unless an opportunity comes up unexpectedly and totally spontaneously, it's not going to happen for me. For one thing, I'm dedicated to my job and it seems to go dysfunctional here pretty fast without me. There's at least one person who knows how to do most of the stuff I do, and there's some comfort in that fact, but I am not sure about my comfort level with potential housesitters and/or petsitters.

And then there's my alt health business. I suppose it would have to close down during my vacation if I were to go. That would be fine as long as my son or someone else in the family would be willing to go there regularly and make sure everything's ok.

Something about me: I am a worrier. I don't let worrying take me over the way I used to years ago. When I start to feel it coming on I do a full body relax exercise I know: simply tensing up starting with the feet and going upward, holding the tension for a minute or so, and then letting it go starting with the crown chakra (top of the head). Then I picture my worries as helium balloons floating up and away. It works every time.

Dr. Bach's Rescue Remedy (the oral spray) works wonderfully for alleviating worried states, too. I carry it with me, in my purse, just in case.

I know one person who used to have panic attacks, which were quite unpredictable. She was on heavy psych meds (psychiatric medications) for this. I encouraged her to try the Dr. Bach's Rescue Remedy Spray, and she tried it during a panic attack and it worked! It helped her to regain her balance and become immediately calm. She talked with her doctor about it, and her doctor was open-minded enough to allow to continue using the Rescue Remedy to alleviate the symptoms of her panic attacks, with the caveat that if she needed the psych meds again for any reason to keep them just in case and to keep in communication with the doctor about the effectiveness of the Rescue Remedy on a long-term basis.

It's 5 years later now and she's never needed the psych meds again. Her panic attacks are fewer and further between, too.

I'm not saying that this would work for everyone. But I can tell you that this woman's life has greatly improved since she was able to go off of the psych meds with all of their debilitating side-effects.

But I so diverge. My topic was summertime. In summertime, vibr8 has worries. But just writing this little bloggy (another made-up word) bit has encouraged me to think about creating a vacation for myself in July or August. Maybe it would be fun to go to that Feng Shui Convention that the Enchanted Gardener has mentioned recently. It sounds absolutely incredible.

Well, the rain has stopped, and I can see a bit of sun trying to shine out from behind the greyish clouds. The chirpy birds are back on the pinon tree outside my window. It's truly amazing what can happen just while a blog entry is being written.

Enjoy your weekend.

 

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