Mood Color
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What’s the color of your world today? Is it sunny yellow optimism with splashes of promising sky blue? Or is it dull grey downness with blobs of brown mist to cover your tears?
There are jobs where individuals and teams brainstorm potential color names based on trends, goods and even personal preferences to sell products. I know that I would have a few new ones to add that their lists. I also know that we can get up to a foggy, rainy or cloudy day and have the weather dictate how we are feeling. The early morning sunshine with birds chirping and green leaves blowing on the trees can lighten our mood as we crawl out of bed too. Our job or role in life is to be someone’s light - someone’s color in his or her day - to lighten life up when the going gets rough. Even - yes, even when we don’t feel like we have it in us. Asking the Creator of the universe for help is a great idea. After all, just look at nature to see every color in the oceans to the forests to the rivers and the valleys. And then we can be thankful and share that joy of creation.
So whether it’s smokey trout or firecracker red, we can brighten our mood by thinking positively when our mood dictates the opposite. How do we do that? Simple: by changing our mind and thoughts. Mindfulness or minding, as I like to call it is moving your color palate from the dreary browns and dismals to the neon pink and flashing yellows of hope.
“Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit.”
Minding
We share our lives on social media and in real time. We are influenced by an array of emotions. How do we respond to the world around us?
They call it mindfulness, but I would like to think of it as minding. As in, the element that enables a person to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think and to feel. Those are all words I can identify with when I am thinking about minding. Minding my manners, minding my own business and minding my emotions. When I’m feeling down; I need an up.
When I want to encourage, I want to identify with people through shared experiences or emotions. I also know that I lean toward the positive - the sunny-side up - even when the clouds are grey. Hey, don’t think I don’t shed my tears, feel frustrated or disgruntled. I am not always able to stay motivated and I don’t profess to have all the answers, but one thing I do know is that after lots of practice, maintaining a positive mindset requires work and rewiring one’s brain. The choice is simply ours.
And, I choose to think positively. I will not let negative emotions, situations or people keep me from feeling and experiencing the positives. How do I do it?
Stay with me and find out. I take one emotion at a time and for every negative, there’s a positive. I’d rather be smiling in the garden and smelling the flowers than filling my fists with thistles and weeds. What about you?
“Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.” ”