My Happy Place!

Recently I have been having problem sleeping. I go to bed at a decent time to try to get a good night rest but in the last couple nights I've been wrestling with my mind. There are so many thoughts runnin through my mind and trying to get my attention that is not letting me sleep. Last, night I went to bed at 10:30 and it was 12:06am and I was still trying to get my mind to "shut up". I stayed awake for another 1/2 hour before I finall was able to fall asleep. 

This mornin I was talking to a friend at work and I was telling her my struggles with my mind and how I was not a able to fall asleep or that I woul wake up in the middle of the night and my mind would start racing. She gave a very wise suggestion, she said to me, you need to go to "your happy place". At first I was like, what are you talking about. She proceeds to explain to me that I should think of a place that makes me happy and that I should go there when ever I experienced the racing thoughts in my mind. That would helping regain control of the situation and it would take my mind away from all the worries that are causing my "racing thoughts ". She have COPD,  so every time she can't catch her breath and she is feeling like she is freaking out she will go to "her plac " and she will start to feel better instantly!

I just looked at her and thanked her for her bright suggestion and I went back to my office. There I starter thinking about what could be "my happy place". I went through all the possible choices and I finally found "my happy place". What it is? Well.... My happy place... is home on Christmas morning! 

 I always remember how happy I was growing up and waking up on Christmas morning! Running with my sister and brother to see if Santa had left anything under the tree. How my Mom will turned on the Christmas music on an old organ that my dad bought to "learn how to play it" (he never did learn). All of us gathering in the kitchen to make breakfast! That is "My Happy Place". 

I hope that you can apply this to your life and that you too can find "Your Happy Place".

Good night!!