Weather the Weather
Now this is going to like pop psychology and it kind of is, but it’s not.
We have has some strange weather here in the South-East UK. Last weekend we had hailstones, the week before that it was so hot we went to the beach for a picnic. The southern English have a very narrow comfort zone, too. Heatwaves in the - oh, I don’t know - low 90’s prompt hosepipe bans and boardroom discussions about changing the dress code at work. A foot of snow causes the rail network to collapse and the stockpiling of tinned and dried food. I am not joking you, we are an island nation that has won two world wars and fought off numerous other invasions (Rome - you got lucky OK? Invading at teatime, the bloody cheek…) and we go weak at the knees at the sign of gritting vans.
That said, it’s June in nearly two weeks and it’s freezing. I got up this morning and it was cold. Try that sometime. Instead of thinking “I am cold”, just try: “it’s cold.” It takes the focus off you but makes you part of the experience. The weather is cold and you are in it. It’s more the point of view that you are a part of this cold weather, rather than you sitting there thinking how cold you are. Think about how you fit into what’s going on rather than dwell on you own condition and you’ll feel more involved in things and also more detatched from you own suffering.
Wrap up warm.