From the Tarot of the Masters, the Two of Coins; from the Key to the Kingdom, the Nine of Hearts:
You gotta dance with the one that brought you.
~ Shania Twain
Ricklef's rendition of The Star by Edgar Degas brings to mind a line from Twain's song. Sometimes we don't have a choice about the many obligations we must juggle. Yet wouldn't it be better to dance with them rather than being disgruntled and sullen? To be resilient means we are flexible as a dancer, able to rebound instead of curling around our resentment. The nursery rhyme associated with the Nine of Hearts is:
What's the news of the day,
Good neighbor, I pray?
They say a balloon
Is gone up to the moon.
Humans have a cognitive bias toward what is negative. We must balance out this tendency if we want to relieve our stress and anxiety. Instead, we can note: what made us laugh or smile, what touched our hearts, or what made us pause in awe or wonder.
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