Cloud

We can all get worried from time to time, this is quite normal, but if we start to over-worry about things, then this will be causing your stress levels to rise. For many of us, we know when we are relaxed and we know when we feel terrible, but often, we lose track of how we are feeling in the middle of these two extremes. This is because relaxation and stress are clearly defined in our minds and the gap in between isn't clear, so are we relaxed or are we stressed? If we let things grow, then it is like a drip-feeding response, and often if we don't notice this is happening then it can continue to grow. If you imagine, every time you worry, it sends those thought bubbles of worry and fears up into your own cloud, that just circles over your head. This is your personal worry cloud, which means that you don’t go anywhere without it, it just follows you around and the more worries you have, the more you fill your cloud. I guess all of us can have a few wispy clouds around us and maybe on our chill-out days they can blow away and let us have those clear blue-sky days. But if this is something you are doing all the time, then even when you are not worrying in the now, the worries of the past are still circling you.