The healthy side of life is Humor. Focusing on the positive side for each day is pleasant and fun. Negative expectations produce grumpy outlooks. Give yourself and everyone around you a loving yes today.
Category: Commentary
Creative expressions that tell you more about something; perhaps a different point of view for you.
Friends
Here, through color and heavy lines we have a visual expression of human bonding that holds us together. It’s important to reach out to a friend each day.
What You Give–>Become
Here I encourage you to study the message carefully. Notice, as the letters read from left to right, they change from smile to grumpy. This says that, as you give in a positive way, you become a positive giver. On the other hand, if you give grudging, well . . .
Be Grateful
Being aware of the things, events, persons in your life heightens your awareness of the positive parts of your daily life. Practicing gratitude every day, using every opportunity, summons your awareness. You may be surprised about how much that is positive in your daily life.
Treeth
Ah, there’s nothing so striking as a smiling pine tree. The message here? Be kind to our forests and they’ll be good to us. Yes? Wood you consider this?
Negative Self Talk
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!
I AM
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.
Junk Food
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!”
No Time
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.”
Find A Place To Be Yourself
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.”