In my daughter’s book about moods, there is a bad mood cloud that follows people around. It’s like a lighting storm of thoughts, and when it’s above you, all you can see and think and feel is bad.
The bad mood cloud has been hovering over me all day, with constant thunder and lighting of negative thinking bringing negative feeling.
When I picture a cloud above my head I can feel separate from it for a moment. It’s still hanging about, but I know it will pass eventually and I’ll feel the calm of the clear sky again.
I wish it would move on a little more quickly, but while it’s here I’m appreciating the awesome power of my thoughts, which are just electrical impulses, and which can suck me completely out of the moment and into an intensely negative made up experience. It’s not exactly fun, but it is awesome.