Silly works

  Tap H-a-p-p-y on Your opposite hand.  

I usually start with the thumb, but I

photographed it this way so you could

read it.  (Note you don't need sticky notes

-- those are strictly to illustrate.) 

The beautiful hand is my 

husband Steven's contribution.

Barbara Muir © 2013

One of the things that gets in the way of my happiness,
and something many people have talked about is
obsessing.  You are lying in bed at night, warm, maybe
 even with the one you love sleeping next to you, and you are
wide awake running a movie of the next day, a fight you had
with your teenager, a big problem you're having with
a project.  The continuous loop is riveting.  You
can't sleep, you can't relax, and if this thing goes
on for days, you may not be able to eat, you may
even get sick.

How can you stop it right there? Allow your
magnificent, goofy, problem solving brain to
take over.  First take a deep breath (deep
breathing always helps us calm down -- I know
you already know this.)  Then do a child's trick.
Tap "I love you" on your opposite palm. Three taps
= I love you.  You don't love you?  You better start.
If that doesn't make you smile (back to day one),
try this. Spell out H-A-P-P-Y on your right hand
with your left hand.  If you're not alone and it's the
middle of the night, do this silently.  Try it.  Come
on.  Guess what that right hand (and your left hand
too) is perfect for spelling happy.  And -- just
spelling it begins to make your brain think you are.
At least the possibility exists.

Do me a favour and keep this to yourself.  But
sometimes the simplest little ideas transform
our existence.  And when you're trying to be
happy -- that matters.

Have a H-A-P-P-Y day.