Extremely stressful day yesterday. My head was left spinning after about 3 hours on the phone to various places. Extremely discombobulated; uncomfortable and at a loss.
3 x sprays P103 to my neck and throat.
Self effects: I’m very upset, but start to even out in the truck. I’m smiling after about half an hour.
Outside temp: 67F; 77% humidity. Mostly cloudy, light, occasional breeze. Long sleeve weather.
Go to the Dollar store just to amuse myself and to get out of the house. Looking at all the Halloween things - it’s still a novelty to me; and my friend Karen just loves this celebration. I amuse myself with deciding which decorations she would like. This puts me in a light mood. I get an amazing hit from a 1 year old. She’s in the baby seat of a cart and her mother is looking at something beside me. When I look to see who I can feel staring, I see this baby girl just staring at me. She gives me a big grin, raises both arms in the air and says hello. So cute, she completely disarmed my residual upset. Her mother turned around and saw the demonstration; looks at the baby, then me and bursts out laughing. I’m calling that the best hit of the week. Hilarious.
In the supermarket; a dad and his baby boy - approx 2 years old, do almost the exact same thing. Except the dad has his back to me, arranging something in his cart and the kid is going off with a frown and loud voice. I want something from the shelves beside them, and as I’m choosing, it just goes quiet. I turn around and the baby is just staring at me with his mouth open. His dad looks at him, turns, see me, looks at his boy and chuckles. As he moves off the kid is still staring and the dad smiles at me and walks on. Hysterical. If only grown guys responded that way.
J was light in mood, but grounded. He’s a dad too, and that made him laugh.
I like P103. Another one that just eases the situation, then lightens it. It evens me out in the high stress reaction, which is great. Doesn’t give that immediate flip that IO does for me; but that can be useful in itself. A less extreme reaction for different situations. Thanx for that.