The Small Things In Life. What Makes You Happy?

[Ronin]

Fever. No, really, that's suddenly so many more important things to worry about. Sorts priorities.

 

[Changing4Best]

Reading my Bible, sitting by my fish tank and crocheting lap blankets for the elderly in nursing homes, so they who sit in wheelchairs can stay warm. Reading biographies, humor is also a good subject to enjoy. I found this hillarious book entitled HELP LORD, I'M HAVING A SENIOR MOMENT. It is by Karen O'Connor. Since I am a senior citizen and have plenty of my own senior moments, I get to see how I am not alone and have a good laugh too. I love listening to music. I like contemporary gospel the best. However, I enjoy classical music and some insundry other things here and there. I am listening to DEEP FOREST right now, which is a collection of music that was recorded by some jungle dwellers in the rain forests of South America. It is kind of a one of a collection of music, never heard anything like it ever before or ever since! I love going shopping in Thrift Stores, it is amazing what one can find for 25 cents to a couple of dollars! I collect rocks. I have a bunch of pretty ones that are polished and colorful. I love visiting with friends and loved ones. I'm on good terms with my family because my abuser is dead and we all agree that he was the biggest baddest SOB that ever lived! I love drinking hot chocolate and grapefruit juice too, but not together (YUK!). I can have them a couple of hours apart and they don't interfere with each other. I love sitting and watching the birds, We have some cardinals here (beautiful red colored birds) and they are a couple, and they mate every spring. SO we have an endless supply of them. I like to play Scrabble. I play against myself, since no one else around here plays it. I collect bells, I love to make them chime. I love blue berries, pears and grapes. Bananas aren't bad either, but I only eat a half of a one at a time, because they are rather high in calories and I need to watch my weight. I love taking a trip to see the fall foliage every year. The colors are gorgeous! I used to paint, but these days I do coloring books and make cards for people for birthdays and anniversaries, etc.

 

[ms spock]

Swimming in the ocean
Three hours of exercise
Hugs
Busting my own distorted cognitions of

• All or nothing thinking -- You see things in black and white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure.

• Over-generalization -- You see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.

• Mental filter -- You pick out a single negative detail and dwell on it so exclusively that your vision of all reality becomes darkened, like the drop of ink that colors the entire beaker of water.

• Disqualifying the positive -- You reject positive experiences by insisting they "don't count" for some reason or other. In this way you can maintain a negative belief that is contradicted by your everyday experiences.

• Jumping to conclusions -- You make a negative interpretation even though there are no definite facts that convincingly support your conclusion. (Involves mind-reading and fortune-telling.)

• Magnification and minimization -- You exaggerate the importance of things, or you inappropriately shrink things until they appear tiny.

• Emotional reasoning -- You assume that your emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are, as in "I feel it, therefore it must be true."

• Should statements -- You try to motivate yourself with "should" and "should not," as if you have to be whipped and punished before you could be expected to do anything.

• Labeling and mislabeling -- This is an extreme form of overgeneralization. Instead of describing your error, you attach a negative label to yourself.

• Personalization -- You see yourself as the cause of some negative external event which, in fact, you were not primarily responsible for.

 

[DharmaGirl]

I got my millennium falcon key chain in the mail today. I'm gonna hang it from my rearview mirror so it can fly along with me. Star Wars forever!

I got a Darth Vader light saber pizza cutter for Christmas! Makes noise too!

 

[DharmaGirl]

I thought coloring would be childish but I now love to color! I have adult coloring books that are very challenging, and some easier ones. I prefer colored pencils. Who knew it could be so fun!

 

[intothelight]

Its almost Girl Scout cookie time....Thin Mints...yum! :D

 

[Lionheart]

Memories of my father and my cat, Millie...I loved them both and am fond of the happy memories and times that I was blessed enough to share with them!!!


Oooops :oops: I guess that was a big thing, but the little things is going through my stuff packing to move and finding things that remind me of my past happiness.:unsure::tdown::tup:

 

[Deleted member 19804]

Hugs
How happy my dog is whenever I come to visit.
Making other people smile

 

[Deleted member 12723]

Laughing with friends or by myself. It is very good medicene

 

[ms spock]

I did a Compassion Body Scan this morning, I did a Loving Kindness Meditation and I did half of the Affectionate Breathing as well. So about 50-60 minutes of Self Compassion this morning. They are small activities but they make me happy.

 

[Heather]

Seeing my cat with her long whiskers and big yellow eyes trying to clean the wet food off her paws. Too cute.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

Sitting in the warm sun. I must have been a cat in a previous life!