STARING AT THE SUN SMILE HOW TO
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Ask a child in your life to do your hair. For the ladies: paint your toe nails a bright color that you wouldn’t usually pick.ġ6. (Alternative option: jump around on a trampoline and just try to not smile!)ġ5. It’s nearly impossible to stay glum when you get moving like you haven’t since you were a kid. Pets playing = instant smile, at least, for me!ġ4.

Give your cat a ball of yarn or give your dog a wrapped gift and watch him try to open it. Maybe it’s just me, but I feel a sense of accomplishment when I do this, and I also really enjoy the novelty of creating a space with a different feel.ġ3. Take a break to enjoy a simple pleasure that you often multitask-like a cup of flavored coffee, or a favorite snack.ġ2. Alternatively, ask that child to draw a picture of you and him or her together.ġ1. Just try to stay stoic when she throws her little arms around your neck and sings “The Sun Will Come out Tomorrow.”ġ0. Tell a child in your life that you need a hug. Post on your Facebook page, “What made you smile today?” (Like I often do on the Tiny Buddha Facebook page!)ĩ. (I have no idea what that could mean, but just seeing the thought s/he puts into it will likely make it extra fun).Ĩ. Ask your significant other to make you breakfast in bed-and to be creative with it. Text your significant other with a silly picture of you and ask for one in return.ħ. Text a friend, “What’s the funniest thing you’ve heard today?”Ħ. Search your deleted email folder for “thank you.” You probably made a huge difference in someone’s life recently-remember that now!ĥ. Read a letter, card, or email from someone who thought of you when you were going through a hard time.Ĥ. It’s really simple and obvious, I know, but sometimes we forget to just ask for what we need.ģ. Ask a friend to come over and make you smile.

STARING AT THE SUN SMILE HOW TO

Call a friend who knows how to laugh at herself to remember what it’s like not to take yourself too seriously.Ģ. Not sure what that might be? No worries, friends! I have a few ideas….ġ. You can accept that the days won’t always look bright, but commit to finding something worth smiling about. You can shut down or wake up, all over again, starting from right where you stand. When things go wrong, you can fall down or look up. You struggle, you fight yourself and other people, and you find yourself wishing you could stop the world so you could get off for a while.īut there is an alternative. You try too hard, or don’t try enough, and things fall apart, or things fall short. You hit snags, and bumps, and roadblocks at every turn. Sometimes you wake up to chaos, in your head or in the world around you. And you arrive at work refreshed, excited, and anxious to create and collaborate.īut not every day starts this way. Your roommate or significant other makes your coffee, just the way you like it. You take several deep, cleansing breaths standing beneath a perfectly cascading shower, just before drawing a smiley face on the steamed-up glass with your index finger. You wake up to the sounds of birds chirping, with the warm glow of the morning sun cradling your face.

You’re doing just fine.You’re doing fine.Some days, it’s easy to smile. Lie down and close your eyes.Notice the silence. Work until your eyes are tired and head is heavy, and keep working even after that. Keep it sharp on track, nothing but the task in front of you. Now get back to work.Work with your mind sharp and eyes focused and if any thoughts of worries or hate or sadness creep their ways around, shake them off like a runner in the night for you own your mind, and you need to tame it. Take the long way just to not pass the liquor store. Find comfort in the way you’re just one in the crowd. Smiling, laughing, or eyes straight forward, hurried to get to wherever they’re going. Notice how they’re all walking, in a hurry, or slowly. Put on your shoes and take a long walk on open streets around people.

Get off your chair in the middle of the day. Keep your mind sharp, head on, eyes on the page and if small thoughts of worries fight their ways into your consciousness: threw them off like fires in the night and keep your eyes on the track.

You still feel warmth.Now sit down and get to work. Hold the cup with two hands and notice that you feel the feeling of warmth.

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Make coffee, windows open, the sun shining through.

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