Sometimes we just can’t help feeling the way we feel. We are told being positive overcomes negativity, and the glass is half full. We are told to be present and be in the moment, but sometimes we slip. We can’t see the forest for the trees. Sometimes we see the glass as half empty. Sometimes we drift and dream, wishing for something else.

Sometimes we need to see what we don’t want to see to cultivate what we do want. We can think we are alone and isolated and live inside our heads. We can think we don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. But we do. It takes less energy to be optimistic than it does to snarl and doubt. What can we do in the midst of a positivity pause?