2014/07/02

READ THE BAROMETER FIRST

You wake up.

It’s a new day. Don’t hurry. Take a moment or two and read the inner barometer first.

Is it a high is it a low? What winds do you have today? The suffocating southwester, an uplifting zephyr, that devil may care-north wind? How strong? Or no wind at all in your sail?

What voice-over is dominating?

The gloomy one? Invariably malcontent, rigid, self-conscious, oblivious to the rest. Irritated and irritating.

The overcritical who sees the world in black and white with you in her eyes mostly in black?

The sunny one, for whom living is sheer delight? A passionate explorer. Always fresh and open and ready.

Is it the best of companions’ voice accepting you as you are? Gently pointing out to your shortcomings. Judges not. A keen and loving observer.

Or is it absence of voice-over? All the different variables in a perfect dynamic balance. Where no words are needed, no stick and carrot. Flux.

How is the overall tone? Elevating, oppressing, stagnant, or something in-between?

Check it out throughout the day for it’s in perpetual change. (Oh, not a big deal. Once you get into the habit of this it only takes a moment.)

Why bother, you ask?

Well, these meteorological conditions of your mood-sphere make up the workshop where your day is going to be sculpted.


You better know or at least get a feel of it so that you wouldn’t mistake wood for stone or tin for gold.

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