A Diamond Poem for Today: Hope and Courage

Quote of the week and a Haiku

Weekly Feel Good Post!

Here we are again! Time to feel good!

Ever heard of the expression: A smile goes a long way?

Well, that’s true!

Let me bore you for a moment with some scientific blabbering…

Most of us have almost forgotten how to laugh. On an average day, an adult barely laughs five times, whereas a child who has no tension, laughs 150 times.

Hmmm, those are some sad numbers, we have to work on that!

So, what do smiling and laughing do for you?

• Laughter dissolves distressing emotions. You can’t feel anxious, angry, or sad when you’re  laughing.
• Laughter helps you relax and recharge. It reduces stress and increases energy, enabling you to stay focused and accomplish more.
• Humor shifts perspective, allowing you to see situations in a more realistic,  less threatening light. A humorous perspective creates psychological distance, which can help you avoid feeling overwhelmed.

• Laughter relaxes the whole body. A good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after.
• Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease.
• Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain.

Okay…so to be clear: Smiling and laughing make us FEEL GOOD! That will be our goal for this week: smile and laugh as much as you can and share this with others!

Enjoy the quotes!

Lots of Love,

Patty

A Poetrics for today: Bitch

Sorry! Lol, but it is the title of the song!

I love this song, it does a amazing job describing my character. 🙂

Note: The lyrics always stay the property of the band or artist who wrote them. All the credit goes to them.

My poetry is written in Black, the Lyrics are written in Blue.

Part of the lyrics of ‘Bitch’ by Meredith Brooks

I hate the world today

You’re so good to me

I know but I can’t change

Tried to tell you but you look at me like maybe I’m an angel underneath

Innocent and sweet

Yesterday I cried

You must have been relieved to see the softer side

I can understand how you’d be so confused,

I don’t envy you

I’m a little bit of everything all rolled into one

I’m a bitch

I’m a lover

I’m a child

I’m a mother

I’m a sinner

I’m a saint

I do not feel ashamed

I’m your hell

I’m your dream

I’m nothing in between

You know you wouldn’t want it any other way

So take me as I am

This may mean you’ll have to be a stronger man

Rest assured that when I start to make you nervous

And I’m going to extremes

Tomorrow I will change and today won’t mean a thing

I’m a bitch
I’m a tease

I’m a Goddess on my knees

When you hurt

When you suffer

I’m your angel undercover

I’ve been numb

I’m revived

Can’t say I’m not alive

You know I wouldn’t want it any other way

To listen to the song, Click HERE.

Lots of love,

Patty

Poetry: Het leven is het waard (Dutch with translation)

Another one in Dutch! ( yes, I am learning!) 🙂

To read the translation, scroll down.

Can you See

The colors of life?

Sometimes black and gray

But often intertwined in a rainbow

Can you Hear

The music in your ears?

Sometimes sad or angry

But you can also hear lovely melodies

Can you Feel

The power that’s flowing through you?

Sometimes desperate and crippling

But often joy, almost untamable

See, Hear and Feel

Life is worth it

That’s what I mean…

A Cinquain for today

WHEN IT IS NOT MENTAL ILLNESS

Please, be aware of this.

Sheri Lawrence de Grom

When It Is Not Mental Illness
The Fourth House
By – Sheri de Grom

An estimate by the National Institute of Mental Health states, “One of every four homes in the United States is affected by a serious mental illness.” The five major categories of mental illness are: anxiety disorders, mood disorders—including depression and bipolar disorder—schizophrenia, dementia and eating disorders.

I hadn’t thought much about this statistic until I was driving home from work one evening and started counting the number of houses I passed. In a short drive of no more than thirty minutes I passed seventeen homes where someone with one of the five above- mentioned diseases lived.

“One out of four” struck me harder as I pulled into our driveway and recognized we were a number four.

I’m beginning this feature series, “The Fourth House,” to bring you the story of how my husband, Tom, and…

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A Diamond poem for today!

Yes! Trying something new here! 🙂

Quote of the week and a Haiku

Weekly Feel Good Post!

And……we are back to feel good about ourselves again! (Really love to do this post every week!) 🙂

Today we are going to focus on the way we think. How we think about ourselves, about others, about life in general and things that happen to us.

There is not a soul on this planet who walks through life without anything happening ever. Every single one of us fights their own battles.

A great part of how we feel comes with the way we think and take on the things that happen to us. Some things we can do something about, other things just blow up in our face if we are just looking the other way for a moment. That’s life, you can’t control it.

But you can control the way you think about things.

Of course you can get smacked down for a while. That’s perfectly normal. I guess everyone has a point that they think: ‘Why me?’ I know I had, multiple times actually.

For example, when the doctors told me I had to battle a THIRD cronical condition, I was like: ‘What? You can’t be serious? Two weren’t enough already?.’

Yes, we all have those moments.

It’s okay, we can be sad for a moment. Life isn’t always a walk in the park. But after that first moment, we have to stand up again, dust ourselves off, straighten our backs and THINK POSITIVE!

Positive thoughts will help us through the toughest times. Even if you hit rock-bottom (and yes, I did that as well) the bright side is that it can’t get any worse.

So, this week we are going to get rid of all those negative thoughts and start to think positive! We will have HOPE that things will get better as long as we are fighting for it!

We are the warriors, the hero’s in our own life story and we will not give up!

Here’s to a better tomorrow for all of us!

Stay strong!

Enjoy the quotes!

Lots of Love,

Patty