I had such a good night Friday that those feelings carried over into my day. I had clinicals from 7-2:30 and all went well. I went home relaxed for an hour and then hit the road with a friend. We went shopping in Hagerstown. Old Navy was the only place I wanted to go. I had a return to make and was hoping to find something cute to exchange it with...No such luck. The one thing that I liked was not in my size and no other store had it. *sigh* I didn't let that get me down. I made up for it by finding a skirt suit at Macy's for $40!!! It was such a good buy. I felt great after that.
I must have pulled a muscle in my upper back on Thursday. It wasn't noticeable until this morning. It hurts but I fought through it. I didn't even take medicine for it. By the end of my outing I was exhausted and I have clinicals again tomorrow. I have to try and get some rest. I will be co-presenting a group on identifying your sources of stress and positive ways to cope with them. I am nervous about it but there is something about working with patients that makes it easier for me to speak in front of them. I will be sure to talk about that experience tomorrow.
I did what I said I would and that is saying hello to everyone that I saw with a big smile on my face. It went wonderfully. I felt good saying hello to people and everyone who made eye contact with me smiled back. I think smiling is like yawning. When one person does it the other people around them end up doing it as well. I think that my body associates the act of smiling with happiness so despite the fact that I was in pain and tired I felt OK! It was a really easy and quick way to keep my mood up throughout the day. Tomorrow I would like to continue to smile and greet everyone. I am also going to try a negative thought stopping technique that I will present tomorrow during group. I will go into detail about that in tomorrow's post. :)
6 days down...359 to go!
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