Open your closet. Carefully go through all your clothes, find your best pieces. Display them. This is who you want to be. Walk to your bookshelf. Take time to pick out your favorite books. Arrange them in a pile. This is who you are. Compare the two.

At night, turn off all lights in the castle that is your mind, except one. That’s the room your soul sleeps in. It must never be left in the dark.

Disturbing thoughts are like sea urchins, hidden behind magnificently beautiful coral reefs. It takes days to pick out all the thorns & more for the pain to subside. This is the price of fascination.

Divert the evil eye with a sharp object, a pipe & a magnifying glass. Smile. If this doesn’t do the trick, instantly fetch the beast within.

Take your time to find the place all the lost memories are stored. Dust off the debris of stormy nights and gently unlock the sacred vault. Listen to the symphony. (for I.)

Filter your angst. Bottle it in a tiny green bottle, and label it “Poison”. Then read the label, every day, until you are ready to flush it down the toilet.

House your fears in a derelict mansion on the edge of town. Dress them up in period clothes & take away their shoes. Let them loose on each other.

Push the walls on both sides until your hands sink through them. Lift them up in the air. Take a deep breath. Then blow them apart.

Imagine thoughts as butterflies caught in the steel net of your troubled mind. Pierce the net with a sharp sound. Let them out. One by one.

Let go of what most concerns you, and fill the void with water. Then let the water flow slowly onto fertile ground. Wait.

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