One way of making your madness work in your favour is to always make a point to 'Hallucinate' what is really there!
What do I mean by that?
You think someone is an energy vampire that just sucks the good feelings out of you whenever they are around you?
Cool! Close your eyes now and make a big colour image in your mind right now of that person. But notice that instead of their normal clothes, they are wearing a 'full on' Halloween vampire outfit, complete with garish plastic fangs! Maybe they are dressed like count or countess Dracula, in the full Gothic number and frilly sleeves and the red velvet lined cloak.
Perhaps you see them in a filthy torn old shroud, drifting smoothly around the place neither casting a shadow nor a reflection. and the SMELL! Poooh! all those years being undead....
You think someone you know is a clown? Someone you either can't or should not take seriously in your life? Then go right ahead and picture them now with the painted white face and the stick on red nose. The huge shoes and the lapel flower that squirts water. A car with the doors that fall off as soon as it turns up.
See what I mean? Picturing these sorts in the way that suits them is very cathartic! The more you do this little exercise, you will find quite rapidly that you no longer need to do this with your eyes closed - it will happen spontaneously whenever they are around!
Its great fun. You turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone. Transmuting someone who is a thorn in your side into a figure of fun in your mind.
You see, the way you address something in your mind dictates the way you respond to it in the outside world. You give something 'gravity' and as a consequence it becomes a heavy issue.
Address something in a light hearted way and you get to play 'ball' with it. Its your choice.
In my internal world, I have slugs, toads, zombies and gargoyles as well as angels, heroes, good witches and at least two Daleks....
I guess the downside of this is..........people who used to drive you up the wall start to make you smile or even make you grin when they are 'doing their thing' around you.
It will really disconcert them.
Well, after all, if we don't treat our 'problems' seriously, how can we expect them to hang around?
See my point :-)
Originally posted on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 03:33PM
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