Counting my blessings

[Cammy]

Thanks for your post People. I know for myself that it is sometimes VERY hard to think about blessings when I am up to my nostrils in Krap. At those times I focus on the basic things and although it doesn't exactly make me do a happy dance, it does make me put stuff in perspective. Yes, there is more to life than food, shelter, and healthcare, but to those without those things, there is no life at all. I dislike it intensely when psychic pain blots out everything and becomes the center of my attention and world. Counting the ways I am lucky pushes this aside a bit, and allows me to see through the static of distress to something different and a little more positive. When my chronic pain issues flare up, I always tell myself that others have it worse, and there is always someone worse and someone better than ourselves. Life is based on comparisons, and I suppose it is the way we view our place in the comparison game that gives us our outlook. Mine fluctuates, but this is one way to ground myself when my mind pulls me through a rocky path.

Thanks for sharing People.