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Old 07-02-2008, 10:44 PM   #6 (permalink)
Lauxa
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Hey there Chado,

I have been going through a tough week myself. Like all the techniques that had been successful before just are not working and I can't find any happy thoughts. I read something in Ask and It Is Given that has been helping a little. It is choose the best thought that is currently available to you. If you are trying to switch from thinking very bad thoughts to thinking very good thoughts it will not work because very good thoughts are not available to you in that place. But it is much more easy to think the best thought available, because the best thought available to you is, by definition, available.

For me, I have been feeling really overwhelmed trying to watch my kids while dealing with some construction at the house. This construction project has been really dragging out and it is driving me insane. Even though everyone else is telling me "what's so bad about that?" it has been really affecting me. Such as a few days ago I started crying and I cried for an hour and a half until I drank a couple of beers just to be able to function. While my 2-year-old kept coming up to me and saying "Don't cry, mommy." in her sweet little voice, which broke my heart even more. But I've been trying hard today to stay with the best thought available to me, and the kids and I have ended up at an indoor playground with free wireless internet and I just bought a whole month's pass and we're actually having a pretty good time.

Good luck my friend. If it's not something you can "snap" out of, it may be something you can "climb" out of... one slightly better thought at a time.
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