Staying Positive?

Yes I am normally a cheerful and optimistic person...annoyingly so...If been told, more than once!! 

 So, what about "staying positive" during Covid-19?

 What about moods? We can expect to have periods of low mood in the present of these circumstances. Or really in any circumstances. But: I'm not taking low mood too much to heart. It's just "weather". Internal weather.

 When its grey and drizzly outside. I don't expect to control that. Really, how crazy would it be to think that I can control the weather? So I don't take it too much to heart. I wait until its sunny again....and perhaps I can even appreciate the rain while it's happening, noticing that the robins are singing ecstatically.

 And when its "internal weather": I'm in a low mood? Nope, I don't have to control that either. It's OK not to be Miss Pollyanna all the time. It's OK to be quite and subdued. It's OK to be a little anxious, or a little fearful (especially with what is happening now).

 But when I am in a low mood. I can remind myself: What I'm worrying about is NOT happening right now in the present moment. Actually it is not. What is happening right now is that I have everything I need. Right here right now in the present moment <3

 At the moment, my mood is up and positive.

 ~ALD

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