Look at me go.
I just figured out how to change the font, making it easier to read. Plus I updated my Blog Pile list a little.
I needed something mundane and technical to focus on to calm the crazies in my head. It seems to have done the trick since the anxiety has left and I’m breathing normal again.
A doctor once told me that I carry my stress in the muscles in my upper back, and that if the stress became too great the muscles would actually pull my spine out of alignment.
I’ve been to the chiropractor three days a week lately, so you do the math.
Ah, what is depression by default vs. depression by choice… that seems to be the question of the hour. One implies a hormonal death spiral, the other a mood based on circumstance.
How does one know? How does one know when to just buck up, cheer up, and shut up?
Does a hormonal death spiral see a milestone? Does it see the light at the end of the tunnel? Will a good chuckle shake it off? I really want to know.
While I appreciate the IDEA behind this Recipe for Peace, does it work if you’re baking the Crazy Cake? Vining writes…
Worn down by each day’s responsibilities and worries, I longed to be enveloped in the “peace of God”—that deep serenity of soul where calm and joy grow. But I had to admit, in the many years I’d been a Christian, I couldn’t say that peace had characterized my life. Was this “peace” the Bible spoke of just some cold, distant theological doctrine, or something I could actually experience now?
I am overwhelmed and filled with chaos in my mind.
Scott Berkun best describes how I feel in this post about the Data Death Spiral. He says it begins like this…
The spiral begins with ignorance. Leaders confuse the collection of research with thought. People who throw more data (not better) at problems are rewarded and others follow. Soon no idea can be suggested without a data armory. Meetings are data battlegrounds. Or worse, data massacres. When someone says “Morale is low. People are crying in the halls. We must do something.†another says “but where is your data?†and the conversation ends.
I had a very cathartic experience reading both of these essays.
One gave me insight into where I might find Peace, and the other helped me understand myself and the struggle within my mind.