Need to Escape? Here is a Suggestion..
Change your environment! Get out of the house, your office, your car, your current surroundings. Find a place where you associate feeling energetic or alive, or just plain good, and spend a good hour there. It could be a simple car ride with the windows down, and some of your favorite music. It could be a walk on the beach, or a nearby park. I believe that nature has some amazing healing qualities, and just being surrounded by it, can change your state of mind. If you are metro-lite, you can go to the roof of your building, or just take a walk to your favorite diner or coffee shop.
Once you have changed your environment, and are out and about, pay attention to your surroundings and the people you see. Think about how really big this world is and how many people live here… you should start to notice how small our problems seem in the scheme of things. Think how amazing things around you are, and how much work it took to create this vast world… and start to notice how all the things you thought that were impossible, are very much pheasible. Think of the opportunities this world has to offer.
Once you come to realize your objectivity, and feel better about things, you can then reassess your current situation, and with clarity and creativity, begin to think of solutions, or just plain enjoy how you feel… lucky to be alive. Lucky to be where you are and who your are. Privileged to have the people you have in your life. And if you don’t have anyone, you may feel optimistic about the potential opportunities of making new friends and family. Because as you absorb your environment, you see that all things are possible, and that you exist for a purpose. You can be who you want to be. You can do what you want to do. And you can…. Make your mark in this beautiful world!
Escape Accomplished!
William Martinez
william@longislandexchange.com
February 18, 2006 2:21 PM Eastern
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