ROUTINES

*Shirley’s Last Quilt

It’s our routines that get us thru life

The batter is barren without a routine.

Without habit there is chaos

Routine takes the burden off life.

Are routines, habits friend or foe?

Let’s explore:

Without routines

Just think of how many thinks you would need just to get through one day.

It’s the automatic behavior that creates a way

For creativity and enjoyment

For the pleasure of the day.

Without which the richness would vast waste away

Muddling in the vast obscure of

What we must procure

Habit is a gift

Use it to free up the chaos

Smoothe  soothe out the day.

Freeing a beautiful mind to seek other

Habit is our friend

Use it wisely

tom tenbrunsel

Clinical/Sports Psychologist.

Author’s Note: Get your routine on. Habits, while beneficial to sort out our behaviors, must be carefully monitored. Let me show you here how a change in habit can effect a cure for example let’s cure depression:

We Sense - Perceive - Think - Feel in that order. And if you think negatively, you will feel depressed (especially if this is your hidden habit of thinking). If you think positive, you will feel good. Thus changing habit/routine (stopping negative thinking) is the cure.

Now let’s examine how a change in thinking can effect a cure to down-in-the-dumps depression.

Simple cure for depression: catch yourself thinking negative thoughts, take a slow cleansing breath. At first do that often until “catching” yourself becomes your new habit (replacing the now disrupted old habit of negative thinking). Voila! It will take less than a week to eliminate depression using your new habit.

PS: Pills mask the problem. Changing habit (behaviors) is the cure.

You’re welcome 😉

tom tenbrunsel

Clinical psychologist and poet