A Blog About Relaxing With Doodling
Creative expressions that tell you more about something; perhaps a different point of view for you.
It’s easy to get into, giving yourself negative messages of not being good enough or not being accepted. Especially in our competitive, high pressure, frenzied lives. This WordToons message raises awareness of possibly telling ourselves down-putting stuff. Awareness is important. Then you can begin stopping the negative message and changing it to a good message such as “I am fine the way I AM. Bravo!
Here is a wonderful mantra to practice daily. Simply repeat this phrase as you go about your work. Each time you day this to yourself, add a positive like good (I AM good), getting better, feeling good, healthy, happy, fun. But watch out. Be sure no negatives slip in. This mantra is designed to counter any negative messages you might say to yourself. You can stay with the positive in your daily life.
You can make a copy of I AM. Just click on the black WordToon title to get the toon on its own page. Then go to the File menu and down to the Print command and click. Cut out the print and put it up to remind you.
We hear much about this commodity swelling the center aisles of our grocery stores. There are lots of manufactured tastes to create a desire for the “munchies” every day. This stuff is causing unusual problems in our bodies. Time to cut down? “Oh, but I’ll have just one more!”
Because of the pressures on us each day. You can feel depleted. Where is the YOU of you? The American social commentator, Joseph Campbell, writing in the 1970s, had this to say about a personal, what he called sacred, space. He reflected on the pressures of modern life.
“This is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room, a certain hour of the day where you don’t know what’s in the news, who your friends are, what you owe anybody. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. A place of creative incubation. At first you might find that nothing happens. But if you have your sacred space and use it, something will eventually happen. You have to try it to find out.
In your sacred space you get to know the “thou” feeling.”
It’s very important for you to find or make a quiet place to be by yourself — to create a situation in which you are with yourself only — to create a special time. Also see the following WordToon “No Time.”
Your doodling time is personal time. Time to find yourself and discover the PEACEFUL you. Doodling is a process waiting to be discovered. Ideas and messages can and do pop up as you devote your personal time to this process. I like to say that this process can take you from STRESSED to DESSERTS:
If you don’t get it, try bringing a mirror to mind (or the computer screen and there see the reflective results).
Life can get grindingly boring at times. Then it’s time to create your own change. It can be done with the flick of an attitude. Think about it. This is something that’s within your power. Come up with fresh routines and then notice how it feels when you’ve done it.
When we promote this energy in our daily life, we rise above the sea of negativity surrounding us. Let’s be on the lookout for promoting good energy everyday, all day. Yes I am a promoter of the positive. Join me?
As we somehow manage to navigate through each day, stress is ever present in our lives. It becomes a “given” for us to accept and to deal with. It can become a part of each of us. And that’s where the addiction comes in. Then it becomes important to find ways of relieving that stress within. It’s important to actively search for ways to believe your body and find some peace. (For more on this idea read my book https://wordtoons.us/the-book/)
Here’s a wonderful example of what happens when inflation invades our language. The familiar question, “Tennis Anyone? now is showing the effect of numerical inflation. Will you forgive me for this? What word using a number in it can you think of?