Low Mood Threatening to dip below 50. Dazed with a mixture of confusion & lostness...

 Ironically, this is happening as I watched an Oprah podcast about happiness and I realized that each of the 4 'pillars' mentioned  were rather weak in my life: Family, Friends, Faith & Work. I had depended on the last one so much that, with challenges emerging once again with my decision to trade & invest for a living years ago, I had three semi-weak pillars at best to support my Joy.

Of course, I soothe myself with reminders that I had made up with a rather recent friend after her husband passed on on 4th July & that my relationship with my mother & domestic help has improved greatly compared with a few months ago. I also have casual friendships in the capital city which have endured since before the pandemic. Despite the outlook not being so promising in appearance, I keep choosing again & again to believe that my Creator works in mysterious ways & that He[It?] takes care of all his children, wayward or otherwise, including me so I have to keep the faith ! I've adopted a recent practice of praying for humanity as a whole & also specific people who ' need his guidance & the assistance of angels in whatever areas of their life they need it in'.

Also, I should not rely overly on the pronouncements of a Harvard professor who wasn't really able to expound on the spiritual dimension of happiness anyway!

Counting my blessings,  being appreciative of the many +ve aspects of my Now & detaching myself to become the observer of my -vely-biased thoughts will have to be the main tools to ride out the day, plus whatever recent Abraham teachings eg soothing, bridging beliefs, choosing the best-feeling thoughts, making the emotional journey up the scale etc that I can apply!