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Sometimes I assign my clients homework. One of the simplest anti-depression homeworks is to make a short list each night of either things they appreciate, no matter how big or teeny, or of daily highlights. I find that so many of us, especially pessimistic over-analytical types, those with control issues or Asian-parent-syndrome, tend to ruminate on the cruddy events of the day but gloss over the little perks.
So one needs to re-program our heads to ruminate more on the ups…
Here’s mine:
In the morn, was told that I am loved, as I am each day of my married life.
Accomplished my new daily aspirational goal to eat 1,
preferably 2 or 3 vegetarian meals per day.
Ate Falafel at lunch & smilingly thought of my best friend & our many meals together at Vivi’s Falafels.
Bought books (always a pleasure!),
was checked out by a lovely African American elder wearing beautiful shades of purple, who kept calling me "baby girl" which was somehow simultaneously screamingly funny (I am feeling creaky & decrepit lately) & endearingly sweet.
Was told to "Have a magnificent day, baby Girl."
exchanged music, past lives, and travel e-mails with my workaholic soul mate in L.A.
Had the privilege to sit for some hours with several very extraordinary girls and young women, and help them to structure their own resilience, begin to glimpse their own beauties.
Sang badly & gladly at the top of my lungs to and from Richmond-in 3 languages and across clashing musical genres.
Read Walt Whitman-
"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to anyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and the crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the Mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richese fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
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