Just let it all slip away...Om.

Have you ever just had a bad day?  Duh, of course you have!  It happens to all of us now and again.  Well, one day last week I had one of the absolute worst days I've had in a VERY long time.  In hindsight, the actual events themselves really weren't that bad, but, taken as a whole, I was completely spent.  While I won't go into the details of what happened, they did involve, among other things, a couple of old bully attorneys.  I mean really old-school attorneys who probably think women are better suited for fetching coffee and putting dinner on the table when they come home at night. 

As I listened to their nonsense, my mind travelled elsewhere and all I could picture was Rocky and Mugsy from Looney Tunes.  I kept imagining the younger of the two geezers saying, "Yeah, yeah, boss.  That's right.  You told her." 

After I finished with those two characters, I headed elsewhere in the courthouse to deal with another character all together.  The pro se litigant.  As the old proverb goes, he who represents himself has a fool for a client. In this particular case, he couldn't possibly be more foolish.

So, after dealing with this cavalcade of idiocy, I was looking forward to spending some time with my Flying Turquoise Twin.  She had once again come up with something for us to try.  This time it was "marma" work at a local yoga center.  Don't ask.  I'm still trying to figure out what marma is.  

I arrived at the yoga place in full attorney business suit regalia complete with a bad attitude.    There I was greeted by a very crunchy woman in yoga attire and bare feet.  She took one look at me and said, "You look like you've had a rough day."  She then told me could take my mind off of everything.  Boy, the yogi was right!

Yogi Bear led me to the center of the room (picture lots of furniture from India, tapestries, and Tibetan accoutrements) and told me to close my eyes.  Despite not knowing what was coming, I followed her instructions.  As I closed my eyes, she took Tingshas (Tibetan chimes) and began to walk around me in circles while banging the chimes together.  While it is almost impossible to really draw you a picture through words, it was by far one of my funnier moments in recent history.  Here I stood as this woman whispered sweet nothings about being in a safe place and letting go of my thoughts accompanied by very loud chimes.  Ding! Ding! Ding!  My eyes remained closed, but I was smiling from ear to ear.  I definitely lost track of all that negativity as I just  laughed to myself imagining how I ended up in this situation.  I'm sure Yogi Bear thought I was relaxed for different reasons and not because of the sheer hilarity of it all, but, whatever the intended effect, it did make me feel better.

So, if you've ever had a really bad day, just drop by your local yoga center and see if someone can dance around you with chimes to take your mind off of it.  You might be amazed by the results.