OKAY Tomorrow l will be “waiting for the onslaught Wednesday...so It seems prudent to expand our little mantra/rhyme.  If you haven’t been reading along and growing  your mantra to assist you in grabbing some peace and joy surrounding “Black Friday,”  I’ll summarize and then go on.

You see the battle for Black Friday.peace and joy becomes. More important each year as the  money changers creep their materialism further and further up the.calendar and sing songs as if. It’s the most wonderful sale of the year.  In short, feelings of inadequacy and anxiety regarding not being  good enough complared to others has a solution and that is buying stuff <sarcasm> and our kind businesses are more than happy to make us feel better—except  they wrap it up in anxiety, guilt, and debt.  

They sell things not experiences.  I noticed the other day that if I bought an expensive bedroom combo the company would give me a ‘free TB,’ so I guess I’m sup[p[osed to lie around in bed watching  TV throughout the holidays/. Why couldn’t they giveaway  on free round trip plane ticket so you might. Go visit family?  

Okay enough. Of this for now...we have to put ourselves es in a calmer state of mind and this poem/mantra is what I offer.  

So here is expansion  two.  Take a few  deep breaths and read it thourough a couple times.  Then. Think of a vacation or a trip you have taken and had fun.  Then  Recite the expanded version.  More on “work together Wednesday.

(Again I ‘m writing this from myth memory to yours so if the words don’t match well pick the ones you like best.

B is beginning—it’s where we all are

Breathe deeply at home in stores  and your car

L is for learning to like  my current status

Heed not what the sales tags keep screaming at us

A’s for allow your best gifts to show through

Give freely of yourself it’s the best you can do

C of course is for Caring for. Yourself and each other

Each Father , Each Mother, Each Sister Each Brother

K is for kindness we need that for survival

It gives us strenth for Black Friday’s arrival

F’s for Family and Friends bothold and new

Be gentle with them, they’ll be gentle with you

R’s for reflection please  examine your attitude

If you find any holes, then fill them with gratitude.

Okay..that’s all for today...your homework, in addition  to  remembering the mantra is to think back to the first Sears Wish bBook you ever  remember  working your way through.  What was the exotic  gift you. Wanted and yet you knew  you wouldn’t get... Did Sears create hope or the feeling that someone would have something. You wouldn’t ever have?   Now look at  10% of the things you own and  imagine. What your wound self would have thought if she or he knew  you  woulda have those things in the future.  

Okay read the mantra focus on what you have and we’ll be back tomorrow!