More Mood Math —Wanting 5 Creates 3

So as you’ll recall my ten-year-old son Ax was illuminating his inner world for me the other day and said that for him a 4/5 mood was preferable to a 5/5 mood, which would basically be too wild n crazy for him.  

I aspire to maintaining a 4/5 myself because that’s where I’ve found a steady, contented, calm yet buoyant kind of can-do-itive-ness lives.  I like it and it seems to produce actions on my part that agree with those around me. At 4, there’s breathing easy, there’s presence, there’s connection, there’s gratitude.

I have a few recipes for how to return to 4 when I’m out of it.  They’re good recipes, inherited from others.  Thing is, I have to follow the recipes.  I have to, I get to, a) remember I have a recipe that works.  Then, recall the recipe, put the ingredients in the bowl, stir it up, grease the pan, fire up the oven, and stick it in there for the specified amount of time.  

I have to remember that it tastes so good.  4 tastes so good when I let myself be in it that it’s worth doing all that stuff.  The sleep, the exercise, the nutrition, the meetings, the steps, the mindfulness, the service, the play, the taking care of what needs taking care of and the letting go of all the rest of it.  All.    

I get into these funks where I’m so scared of falling into 3 or so hungry for just a little hit of 5 that I forget these fears and desires are related for me.  Wanting 5 creates 3.  Fearing 3 creates 2.  Change my thoughts — prioritize 4, again, appreciate 4 again.  Today, right now.  It’s a choice.  I’m gonna keep going.  

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