Advice for the wicked
August 12th, 2010
ADVICE FOR THE WICKED by Carolyn Graham
Create harmless mischief whenever possible. Find a friend who likes to incite you and will share in some mischievous hilarity. If there are no friends available, use your best thinking and mentally engineer an event designed precisely to meet your needs.
If someone tells you your bread’s not baked, or you have a loose screw, or your elevator doesn’t go to the top, consider yourself highly complimented and extraordinarily gifted. You have probably shed some of the constricting and restricting bounds of convention.
Look in the mirror: acknowledge and celebrate yourself as a masterpiece in progress. All of us are superb examples of a true work of art, an ever developing piece, even if some of the places have shadows.
Walk into each day as if you owned the world. Put your head up, your shoulders back, and swagger a bit. Remember, with choices about how you think, you do own your own space…your world.
If you can’t believe you’re great, then act like you are! Being great means reaching for a hand when you need one and offering one to others who could use some kindness.
Buy a new technical gadget you have been wanting. Explain the purchase by declaring that the intellectually stimulating affects of learning to operate the device enhance the performance of your immune system.
If you like dark chocolate, keep some readily available and slowly savor a tiny bit on a regular basis. The given pleasure will probably off set any potentially harmful affects. That’s a risk worth taking!
Absolutely DO NOT act your age. Retaining childlike behaviors probably goes a long way toward staying vital, alert, and healthy. If you have supposed that to be true, applaud yourself, dance a bit, and invite a friend for a play date.
Pray a lot! You and I are most certainly going to need Divine patience, understanding and support.
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AUTHORS BIO: Carolyn spent more than thirty years as a professional educator with specialties in counseling and management information systems. When the manifestations of chronic Lyme disease were causing catastrophic illness, she resigned from a cherished position at a community college. After suffering through eight traumatic years, she has regained robust wellness by using mind-body medicine techniques. As an expression of gratitude for her wellness, and as a commitment to fostering healing in others, she is writing and speaking at every opportunity.
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Carolyn,
you made me smile, laugh, with your opening metaphors–bread, screws, elevators–the ability to laugh is one of the most beautiful aspects of being human. The highest form of play, so joyful. Thanks for the lift.