Writing down your thoughts can help too. This gives a sense of calm when you're manic, and enables you to let go of worrying about forgetting what you're thinking. Strong chamomile and passionflower tea helps me too. (o:

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"stop doing what you've always done, and you will stop getting what you've always got". Hey, I like that, and am I checking myself out? Yes, indeed, yes indeed. There was a time when I was so absorbed in other folk, my identity was almost stolen. It is taking me awhile to get it back, but I am making progress and it feels good.

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This is just what I needed at this time. Thanks. Life can be so fragmented, that we don't often get time to just be. I am going to follow your advice, and just be for a while. When we are quiet, we hear the most beautiful music. That is the music of our souls. Thanks again. Gloria/grandmotherhandleyscloset.com

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I learned many years ago the importance of having quite time for me. As a young mother it was necessary for my sanity, lol, now it's habit. I get up earlier than my daughter and spend a few hours easing into my activities rather than rushing into them. A calm pause before being involved in work,home,family can make it more joyful and emotionally easier.

Love yourself well,
Donna

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I lost my whole life by doing for others and now I am struggling to get it back.My home, my money, my health, my jobs, my piano, and even my country and more. It's called being a fool.

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All of your thoughts and suggestions are worthy. I've had to learn that I can think of myself AND take care of others - everything has to have a time and space. I've learned to allow my compassionate self, my good friend, listening self, my doing self - all some time and attention. AND I've learned to take my share of my time and attention. I have a mentally ill adult "child" whose behaviors can often monopolize my thoughts and eventually I'm unwittingly depressed. NOW, when those random worries & ideas enter my mind, I acknowledge them, remind myself that they are out of my control and I take many deep breaths and focus on relaxing and thinking of a fun time in my life. It works for me.

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I have ADD, never grew out of it. My mind likes to race in the middle of the night and keeps me awake, what I do is tell myself its okay to think of all these things, even the nonsense, but its not an appropriate time. I give myself permission to think about it all the next day then I picture a huge set of hand an the tip of my head/mine opening up and visualize all my thoughts pouring out into the hands, the hands then walk off with it all and disappear, sounds strange but it works for me, I actually start to feel sleepy again.

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Debra,
I have experienced some of what you you have. I had to learn to let go of so, so much. Often times my mind wnats to race with thoughts and worries. When all those thoughts decend on me at once I crumble emotionally and physically. Its time to think about taking care of yourself. You are no good to anyone if you are physically and emotionally spent. This news letter is packed full of beneficial tips on how to control your life and not let life control you. My advice is to stay in the moment, keep reading this news letter and get to a group that can help you like Alanon. I have been a member for 17 years now. It did truly save my life. There is hope; go get you some! Betsy F

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very useful. I know how to meditate but want to teach friends some basic tricks to get them into meditating without them knowing what they are doing and this is it. Too busy people for a meditation practice..........Big up to the person who wrote this. Elodie from London
Still raining out here and still no summer this year..........

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Have you ever asked yourself "do you thrive on whats going on in your life ?"We actually do attract the chaos that we have in our lives, it makes us feel needed , wanted, loved and used.And doing for others takes a toll on our relationships and our health and finances and our life.Life offers choices of being Independant or Codependant,our beliefs, values etc help us to make the choices as well as our health, finances, situations or circumstances, most of us know what we do not want, and until we get quite and alone and really realize and know what we really do want be it order more money or health we will continue along the paths we have always traveled.Whether it be a person or a situation or circumtance we are to learn something from what is happening. we all do the very best we can at the time,till we decide to make the choice to do what is right for our selves,we need to love ourselves first and respect ourselves that love of self will let me be myself and not have me pretending to be what you or others want me to be cause I gotta be me a unique individual created for the pleasure and love of God.I gotta be me! Some say Laugh,Live and Love I say Laugh, Learn and Love!You only have one life, yours,choose what is right for you.Sop doing what you've always done and you will stop getting what you've always got, change your thoughts and ideas of about how you are going to live your life.Today is the first day of the rest of your life stop rehearsing the past.Georgiegal

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