BREATH IN SMILE & LET IT GO

Have you ever felt things happen for a reason?

I have found throughout my life and with my recent experiences that this indeed has proven to be true.

Research has shown that when we bombard our minds with constant negativity it has an impact on our overall health and well being. Being angry about the things we cannot change serves no purpose but to make us more frustrated. When we read the tabloids and buy into the scaremongering tactics then we are feeding our minds and overwhelming our brains with the media frenzy.

The media rely on you to share your anger and pass it on to the next person and spread their 'Fake News' just like a virus. Person to person it spreads and the truth gets lost behind the cloak of 'Real News" now disguised as "Urgent & What You Need to Know" none of it based on the full facts. A little fact and a hell of a lot of fiction to make it spicey and more intoxicating to listen and watch.

I am an advocate for filtering what I watch and listen to. Whom I spend time with and what discussions we have. I do not read newspapers, gossip magazines or listen to the media garbage or hype of non-stop tragic stories of doom and gloom. I have no idea about sport or movie celebrities lives etc. I am a firm believer of garbage in garbage out. What I input into my system, I will reflect out to people around me. I do enjoy the good sides to social media, movies as entertainment and the like. I am just not interested in knowing the trash stuff that does not help to make me a better more productive person.

Well, I failed myself miserably last week and bought into the CoVID-19 discussions. I take full accountability as I let my guard down and allowed this virus to infect my inner being and clearly without realising scare her into panic mode! On the outside, I felt cool, calm, positive, happy and had it all together.

Or so I thought as that is how I thought I felt.

I justified the needing to know more about CoVID-19 to ensure I followed guidelines. By doing this I convinced myself I would ensure I passed on the right messages to help alleviate peoples fears. In truth, I should have trusted my gut when it screamed at me NO STOP. I ignored this feeling. I knew I did not need to watch the latest live news broadcasts to be up to date. My research sticking to the facts would have given me all the latest details required at any given point in time.

However, by breaking my own rules and even though I only listened to the facts of news broadcasts, other things also managed to wriggle and squirm under my radar. I missed it grabbing my attention and concentration which normally I would be more vigilant and strict with.

What was the result?

Monday last week I had had a brilliant afternoon spent with my daughter Stephanie and her fiance Eric. They dropped me off and everything was fine and dandy until around 7.00 pm that evening. I was sitting typing responses to friends on Facebook related to the Corona Virus. Out of the blue, my head started to thump, my hands began to swell and my body started to ache. My system went into the activation of my joints flaring up to a degree that I have not had in many many years. In a nutshell, I crawled into bed with a book, meditation and attempted sleep.

As you can imagine it was not a good nights sleep. I'll cut to the chase. I was a little shaken by it still having hold of me. After I managed to get to the kitchen to make a cuppa I suddenly felt very strange. I had the feeling something bad was about to happen and so I managed to get to the front door to unbolt the deadlock and chain Got back to the kitchen opened the fridge grabbed the milk and woke up on the floor.

Why am I telling you this?

Whatever we let in affects us. Please filter the content. This has once more shown me a valuable lesson about myself. No matter how strong we are on the outside if we are bombarded with enough of an onslaught of bad and toxic things in our lives it has serious side effects.

Not all the effects show up at the time, some show up 12 months later into auto-immune diseases similar to the one I have. How I ended up with this is another story to tell at another time.

Please try to fill your day with happy things and not just the awful things going on in the world today. Look around you and enjoy the good things in your life. Choose wisely the information that you allow to infiltrate into your mind. Lay off reading everything there is to read about the problems of the world. Concentrate on your own lives and celebrate the small things in life. There are so many positives have come out of the current situation.

All you need do is look for those silver linings and you will find they are there to enjoy

Stay safe and well.