Dear LPG

As a section of the population, I have no doubt that we elders are the ones that spend their time over thinking.

There are those times when you definitely have a plan to do something significant with your day, but the sight of a picture, family heirloom or some other thought-provoking item stops you in your tracks.  You have given yourself a time limit for your task, but you then take a look at that item and the initial thought just pops right out of your head.  I suppose because we have less reason to hurry than most of the rest of the world’s age groups, our thoughts are processed more slowly than most.  I know, that I no longer feel the need to multitask and find that my thoughts often compel me to just sit and deal with them for a bit.

Whatever your reaction when you feel a thinking session coming on there are two or three directions that your mind will take you in. There are the retrospective thoughts which also can be described as memories and they can be positive or negative, there are thoughts of where you find yourself at the very time that your thinking session starts, and there are the pre-emptive ones which can often end up with that, ‘I have been everywhere and done everything’ feeling that is followed by tendencies toward ‘what is the point of continuing’, because there is nowhere else to go.

But the secret is to ban any negativity because, whatever your circumstances, if one of those undesirable thoughts come into your head they really need to be dispelled as soon as possible.

Now to the remedies; -if you don’t live alone you need a chat with one of your housemates to bring you back to reality, there is also whatever you were doing, or going to do, just before the thinking session kicked in, when it is vital to have a plan or task ready to bring you back to the positive side of the tracks. 

We are still in the darker days of the year but, if nothing else positive pops into your mind, think summer and sun and schedule some time in for making positive plans for your short-term future however big or small.

And there is one more aspect of a thinking session to be explored.  If your thoughts are positive and leave you with that warm fuzzy feeling of contentment there is no real reason to escape them, as long as they are not taking up too much time in your day.  My remedies are designed to be focussed on the ones that make you sad. 

TN, Crofton Park

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