To live stressfree, enjoy your memories, create new memories and make them beautiful.  What we remember can be as real as our present day experiences.  When I saw this lovely picture, it conjured up for me a memory, a good one, so I'll share it with you and hold on to that feeling of lightness, of relaxation, of fun, of humor.  Where those feelings are, stress has no stronghold.

My first date with my husband Barney was visiting a place called Longwood Gardens.  It is a convergence of the beauty of nature with the meticulous meddling of human creativity in gardening.  Since I have no green thumb, I so appreciate others' gifts in this area.  As we walked through the beautiful garden displays, there was a calmness and serenity that offset any feelings of anxiety that were playing near both of us that day.

And play we did, laughter came easily in our time together.  At one point, as I admired the waterlily pond with its lovely flowers and huge leaves, I wondered out loud if someone could sit on those leaves or use them as stepping stones across the pond.  The next thing which I remember most about that day, Barney playfully pushed me into the lily pond,  and caught me before I went into the water, thank goodness!

What I remember today is not the anxiety of getting close to the water, but the freedom of being able to laugh, to enjoy nature and love, and to always wonder out loud, no matter what!

The habit of looking at things from a position of "It all turns out for good" serves us well in handling the stress in our lives today.  The stressfree habit to develop is to remember those occasions that brought us joy and hope and moved us to this point in our lives.   We can be stressfree now and create conditions in our interior lives that mirror something that worked for us before.

best for now,