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Post by Mini Mia on Dec 6, 2011 18:58:32 GMT -6
In 'Eat Pray Love,' Ketut says: "Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clear away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver."
 Is it really that easy to getting rid of the negativity and depression?  It would be nice if it were true. Maybe I'll try it. 5/10 minutes each day? 
BTW: "SMILE in your liver." = "Smile in your HEART."
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Post by Mini Mia on Dec 16, 2011 18:01:24 GMT -6
Screw the 5/10 minutes per day. I do it first thing in the morning. I do it every time the crap hits the fan. I do it when I get irritated ... when I get annoyed ... when I feel negativity in any way, shape, form or fashion.
So far it is helping with the winter blues I get every year.
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Post by quettalee on Dec 16, 2011 18:17:12 GMT -6
Too good, Jox!
The weather has helped a little this year, although I struggle with the time change the most. Dark at five kills me.
It's kinda hard to not transfer the smile from your mind to your face, but you can so just smile without feeling that way inside. If it's inside, you want it to show!
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Post by Mini Mia on Dec 16, 2011 21:55:20 GMT -6
Yeah. I still feel the depression lurking at the very center, but I'm doing my best to smother it out completely. It ain't 100% positive ... but I've got the negative surrounded. And smiling does pull in good energy. The more good energy, the less room for dirty energy. So, smile ... smile ... smile. And if it gets too bad, I just get out the 'Roswell' DVDs and go through all the seasons. I went through all 3 seasons twice in a row last year. Once the 26th gets here it does get a wee bit better. Maybe that's the halfway point between the cold coming in and leaving? Oct/Nov to Mar/Apr? And I know that at about the second week of January is when I first seem to notice the days are getting longer. I think about that between Christmas and New Year's and it helps lift my spirits.
So gonna keep smiling. And I may just keep it up all year round. 
Oh. And I've been listening to the upbeat, fast-paced music on the satellite too. I'll save the soft, deep feeling music for when I'm in a better mood to handle it.  It so does not help a foul mood. 
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Post by quettalee on Dec 17, 2011 20:57:53 GMT -6
That's why I have such a passion for music...so many different kinds to match every mood I've ever had.
Yep! Music makes me smile!
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 26, 2012 19:17:47 GMT -6
This smile thing really does work. I didn't have those mean voices berating me for about a week and a half. They creep back in from time to time, but I'm not beating myself up every few seconds like I was. It's just a few popping back in during the day. A few a day beats every few seconds. 
Gotta remember to keep smiling! The only way to keep them mean voices from bashing me full force. Dancing helps too. Mostly I just gyrate in place, not full out dance. Just like I smile in my mind, body, soul, heart ... I dance there too. Dancing smilies.
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Post by Mini Mia on Mar 14, 2017 0:52:41 GMT -6
I'm trying not to think about the freezing cold. I'm telling myself that hating on it, and complaining about it is only going to depress me, and nothing good will come of it. I can't undo the cold, and I can't make it go away, and focusing on my discomfort is only going to deepen my Winter Blues.
Negative thoughts are what causes depression, so it's best to just nip them in the bud and say, "It is what it is," and move on with the day. I haven't done the "Smile in your liver," in a while, so I guess I'll do that, and try and keep it up. It works, when I use it. And adding, "It is what it is," will probably improve on it.
Note: "Smile in your liver (heart)" comes from "Eat, Pray, Love." I've commented on it several times in other threads, but too lazy to find links at the moment. Basically, it's smiling with your whole body, and even deep into your heart. Whether or not you feel like it. It's a "fake it till you make it" type of deal. Fill your whole body/soul with happiness and love, and force it into the heart in an embrace. I haven't manged to fill my heart completely this way, yet. But, I give myself a mental/emotional hug and force it as deeply as I can get it into my heart. I did it for a week & a half and most of my 'voices' that berate me and everything I do diminished quite significantly. I even put a dance step in my walk, even though I didn't feel it deep down. I'd put on fast, upbeat music to get me moving, faking the 'feel good' mood I was NOT really feeling.
It does work. I just don't do it everyday like I should. And adding this new thought to the mix should help improve on a good thing.
I failed the, "it is what it is," yesterday.
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Post by Mini Mia on Dec 11, 2019 23:07:41 GMT -6
I haven't been doing the "smiling" thing all that much in a long while, but my mind doesn't beat me up as much as it used to. Since Mom died though, I've had melt downs every year in October/November. This year when the depressing thoughts started in on me, I suddenly realized I was in the beginning stages of my yearly melt down and told my mind to, "Stop it! Just ... STOP IT!!!" So far so good. I need to keep an eye out for February, that's when I get an itch for Spring, and the wait consumes me. It's a different kind of depression. It's the Winter Blues. I think the October/November melt downs have to do with losing Mom. Well, I had them when Mom was alive, but I had her to get them off my chest with ... but ... these last two years without her, I exploded and made messes. This year, thankfully, I've nipped it in the bud. Mom's not here to do the nipping, so I gotta put on my big girl pants and get it under control.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 12, 2019 6:28:38 GMT -6
Good for you, Joxie. Keep at it!
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Post by Mini Mia on Dec 13, 2019 1:04:13 GMT -6
Thanks. Hopefully it won't sneak up on me again, and I'll only have to keep an eye out for when the days start getting shorter in Sept./Oct./Nov. next year. The days will be getting longer soon. Just a few more weeks before it's still daylight at 5:00pm.
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"There are people you meet, who move in and out of your life, like ghosts-- and after they're gone, you find that they've left a part of themselves with you.
