Like Giving Sugar to a Baby
My brother told me awhile back when my eldest niece was celebrating her first Halloween they took her around trick-or-treating. To keep her aware and awake they allowed her to eat something with sugar. They could see the immediate effect the sugar had on her and then could see the crash. They could then give her a little more and start the cycle over.
Fortunately they didn’t do this for long that night and as far as I know didn’t repeat this in future events!
I was at a retreat with lots of people. I noticed at different times during the weekend I was connecting or not connecting with others.
It all depended on my thought process.
If I was having negative thoughts I could go deeper into the thoughts. Once I realized what I was doing I could stop it, say something different to myself and then start smiling and getting along with others.
Like giving sugar to a baby, I could change my mood, attitude quickly.
But I’m an adult.
How often do I go to pity poor me or selfish thoughts? I’m not beating myself for having them; it can be human to have them.
Yet it could also be habitual.
It takes a small effort to shift these thoughts.
When I do shift my negative thoughts to ones which help me connect more with others and myself:
• I get out of the mood I was in
• Things can happen differently
• I really am having so much more fun!
And I don’t have to eat sugar to do this!