Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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Bouncing back
Do you remember the last time you had a disaster on your hands either personally or at work? Do you recall how it felt like the end of the world and how it got blown all out of proportion in your mind? I do.
It happened on Saturday in my basement darkroom. Well that's where it originated, but the problem affected other rooms too. The tap in there has a garden hose attachment that splits the water supply into four separate outlets for various print washers. I'd turned off all of these taps, but had failed to check the main tap was turned off. When I came back an hour later I found the entire floor of the adjacent room flooded with two inches in water and it was creeping into the next room. I waded through to my darkroom to find that the water pressure of the main tap had forced the clamped rubber hose attachment off and was filling the basin faster than the sink would drain it.
Now, I have been ultra-careful recently with the recent drought water restrictions to limit the amount I use. I've even switched to resin coated paper that washes in two minutes in order to conserve water, as well as cutting back on my darkroom activities for the summer. So you can imagine my shock and horror of the problem. I'd not only caused a major flood, I've also wasted a week's amount of water in normal use. Aaaaah!! I apologise unreservedly to the nation. Sorry.
This was a big, wet problem. It was going to affect the entire house for a week, carpets would shrink, damage to the floor and the house would smell for months. Disaster.
An hour and many buckets later the water level was down to the sodden carpet. We phoned a carpet cleaning company who was prepared to come out on Bank Holiday Saturday at double-time. They traipsed huge hoses through the house powered by their giant truck based suction pump and drained the water out. Then they steam cleaned it, shampooed it, deodorized it and left me an hour later with a superbly clean, and all be it damp, carpet. Saved. We left the windows open, put on heaters and now the situation is back to normal. You would hardly know there had been a problem except for the nice clean carpet.
Good always comes out of bad. But the thing I want to remember for myself is how the situation at the height of the drama blew itself out of all proportion in my mind and derailed my entire life. But now it's as though nothing had happened. We rebound. We always do.
Think back to the last disaster you had and where are you now? We move on. Things get better. We recover or we adjust to new situations that we find ourselves and make the best of it if need be. It's in the mind. Our attitude affects how we experience things. Life is OK.
Let's try and remember for the next time the floor drops away from our feet and we find ourselves with an absolute humdinger of a disaster. It WILL get better. It always does.
