Looking for Hallmark Moments…

I’m looking for the Hallmark moments.  Know what I mean?

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If you’re a Hallmark movie fan like me, you may truly appreciate watching a feel-good movie to…well, frankly…feel good!

Whether your life is complicated, you feel overwhelmed, you’re sensitive, or you long for the days you could naturally float along carried by your day-dreaming imagination, the Hallmark lifestyle speaks to wholesome values and picturesque scenescapes.

Ya, but that’s not reality…not realistic some might say.  You gotta work hard and stay ahead of your competition…no time for slacking off…just suck it up buttercup, we’ve got a deadline.

Hmmm…

My first question is: How are you liking the world you see out there? And, is competition the way forward still? 

(It doesn’t have to be done away with. And we can assuredly attest to the evolution it has brought. But collaboration would seem logical for repair work – and many more people on the planet are taking note that there’s a lot of regenerative repair needed for a world in disarray from the competitive saga.)

Deep breath.  Exhale. 

Reminds me how in movies or theatre, an intense scene is generally followed by comic relief to break the tension created, helping you to reset neuro-networks as you’re guided through the storyline.  It’s as natural as a herd of horses fleeing a danger and returning to grazing.  

How’s your day…mostly grazing or mostly fleeing?

Thought so. 

What’s your remedy…more of the same pressure-cooker…or do you perhaps pause…to watch the car in the ad, drive the winding road out of town into nature’s lush treescape?

Whether you’re an escape-the-city person or a sit-in-a-charming-vintage-café person, the need for wholesome, feel-good, picturesque beauty is so primal, it’s amazing how it has been reduced to only-in-a-Hallmark-movie.

So what do you do? 

Either boldly or quietly, you start looking for the Hallmark moments as they show up in your day.

A glint from a water droplet on a tree branch. A great camera moment for that bicycle by the flowers. Feeling the gentle warmth of sunlight.

Feel. Good.

Retrain your senses with a Hallmark movie.

Update your word choices. More of what you want.  Less of what you don’t want. 

(Don’t know what I mean? Trendy expressions like: “going viral”, “that’s sick”, “my bad”, and “killing it,” don’t exactly paint a Hallmark-worthy picture, do they.)

Create your own trendy expressions by making conscious word choices of feel-good resonance like “synaptic-speed”, “that’s awesome”, “all good”, “sharing sunshine” and see how that starts to shift your world, moment by moment.

It’s not escapism if you’re learning how to be the wholesome change you want to see in the world.

“There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way” (Thich Nhat Hanh).

Create this picturesque gateway with me from wherever you are in the world!