If you're feeling so overwhelmed and you can't even remember why—bc that's how many tentacles of worry you've got flailing all around you—something that can sometimes help is to stop generating the SOS call and alter the signal—instead of feeling helpless and needing something, who even knows what—we can send out different signals: we can emanate love, emanate peace, emanate compassion and good humor, for ourselves and others.
Whenever I remember to try this, I feel how the shift completely changes the chemistry of my moment. This isn't a way to solve problems. Or a way to avoid problems. It's a momentary respite, within which you may discover that some things are actually ok, and build some new thoughts from there.
-JLK
