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Being Content When the World is Falling Apart
First the dweeb version then the GOOD ONE
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How to Fix your Nervous. We have endless war, with White House telling us that Muslims are taking over all major world cities, fear of foreigners so insane that Wetbacks are jailed, their infants housed at Walmart, cared for by pedophiles. North Korean ROCKETMAN still has atom bombs in his cellar. Terrorists are cutting journalists' heads off. African children are starving by the gajillion. Syrian refugees, millions of them, homeless in winter across Europe, starving, freezing and in summer burning up and U.N. just decided 'no more food aid.' School Shootings across America, COPS are killing blacks randomly. EBOLA & ZIKA Virus are in America, Global Warming is at an all-time high. Rents have doubled, an unfurn. studio is over a grand, food prices TRIPLED, they're taxing the poor not the rich and an insane, horny idiot liar is president.
In general, the Quality or life is dropping like a elevator with busted cables. Each bit of bad news pushes our stress level a little higher. Just when we think it’s as high as it can get, another bit of news comes in and our stress somersaults into the sky. Naturally all this chaos makes you think your neighborhood will be full of killers soon, your boss will go bankrupt You won't make the payments, you'll all be living in the car.
These images do flit around a mind tortured by too much DANGER. Can you recover and put the horror away from you and still be effective at HELPING IN THE FIX?
Is it possible to find contentment in a world that’s falling apart? Maybe not. But below are some suggestions that may help you keep your head when others are losing theirs.
1. Participate instead of agonizing. Don’t agonize over terrorists, endless war, global warming. Agonizing will accomplish nothing and will only harm your health. Instead, do something. Join an ecologist club on YAHOO LISTS. Contact your Senator. Write a blog. You earn advertising dollars.
2. Exercise regularly. Exercise accomplishes several things. It drains off stress, works off fat and tones your body. Mainly it takes your mind off of the tumbling world and focuses it on something that brings immediate relief and gratification. FOOD? NO! Being lean and mean!
3. Detach from toxic ideas. Some people think that if they obsess about ISIS or other threatening situations around the world, their obsession will have an effect on it. Obsession has no effect on world events, it only brings down your health. Detach from toxic thought patterns such as obsession and allow your equilibrium to be re-established.
4. Embrace your loved ones. Most of us have someone or something we love. It may be a spouse, a friend, a dog, or a lizard. Cherish those people and be nice to them. This act will diminish any tension you have in your body. If you don’t have anybody, find somebody. Make a friend, adopt a dog, Research has shown that pets can sometimes be even more therapeutic than other humans.
5. Give, give, give. The old saying is true. It’s better to give than receive. The more selfish you are, the more frustrated you become because of what you don’t have. When you take the attention off yourself and put it on others and on their welfare, you reduce selfish thinking and cut down on stress. And have less clutter.
6. Take care of yourself. Eat nutritious food. Get enough sleep. Cut down on bad habits such as smoking and drinking. All of these things make everything else worse. The more you are in control of yourself and your own excesses, the better you’ll be able to deal with external crises.
7. Make peace with your enemies. Instead of concentrating on global issues, pay attention to the personal issues that are disrupting your life. Resolve the problematic relationships with loved ones, friends, neighbors, coworkers. Once you take care of these things, the global issues will have less impact on you.
8. Get involved in a hobby. A hobby that you are passionate about will take your mind off of other disturbing things. It could be chess or building model ships or rescuing animals or creating art or learning to sing. The more you put into your hobby, the less you will obsess about things that may be out of your control.
9. Be prepared. The girl scout motto makes sense. Prepare for possible emergencies, such as a food or gas shortage. Read up on things you can do with regard to other possible emergencies. The more you are prepared, the less you’ll fear those possibilities.
10. Live your life to the fullest. Life is a gift. Appreciate that gift and use it for all it’s worth. Live every day as if it is your last. Smell the mint. Taste the berries. Make love. Bake bread. Go to exotic places. Be in the moment. Live moment by moment and never look back. Yes, I know. These things are easier said than done. But keep them in mind and you may be surprised. Surprise is the mother of insight. By Gerald Schoenewolf, Ph.D
"WORLD ANGST" and HOW TO SHED TENSION over it -- IMMEDIATELY --THE RIGHT WAY
1.) GET OUT OF PATH OF BAD NEWS - Hang up on your blabbering Relative who has been telling you that the SKY IS FALLING. Or turn off the news. Put down that NEWSPAPER with pictures of starving children in Ethiopia.
2.) Locate specific charities that care for the Muslims in most anguish, specifically those YEMENITES who are bombed by SAUDIS, UK and USA daily. Maybe the hungry children in Africa too. Give parties to raise enough to send a hefty check to one of those charities. That would make this problem go away! Give the United Nations more funds. And the SYRIAN REFUGEES? There has to be FOOD STAMPS or something that the UNESCO folks can print up that Muslims could use in little markets. HELP the United Nations who ran out of money. GET IN CONTACT with the U.N.
3). Now, you've done your work, ZONE OUT - Put the radio on STATION BLISS and take a Hot bath, perfumed salts or shampoo in bottom to make some suds.
4.) ALL RELAXED? Pour a glass of wine, or my fave, home made lemonade and a half shot of brandy. It does lower blood pressure, faster than costly meds.
5.) When you get some free time, call your smartest chum and MENTION the disturbing nature of that crisis. Portray the technicolor, cinerama big picture; Millions of children with no food at all except alfalfa once a year --on a dried up African savannah. Suggest a fun gambit: we all join OCCUPY together. That and another thing; do a group blog that you can all upload articles too, become the experts on charities in Africa and somehow monetize the site. AND the group will create a charity to give parties to raise money for that starvation area. Raves. Parties. Jazz concerts in little beachside cafes. l0$ a head.
6.) The two of you DO COUCH POTATO ACTIVISM UNTIL YOU can CREATE A fun GROUP, A TIDAL WAVE OF PARTIES at local cafes, Singles parties, DOCUMENTARY WATCHING. Even DOCUMENTARY MAKING!
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