• There was once a time, maybe two years ago, when I experienced a time that I felt totaly at peace. Now, I use that place as a mental image in my head to calm my mind. For those who are visual, I challenge you to read this and imagine yourself in my position.

    It was four o’clock in the morning, way before the light of the sun would began to creep over the mountain tops. I was standing out of the door from the back of my house in Northern Utah. It was still as dark as night, but the light from the house of my next door neighbor shed the light on this majestic sight and wondrous feeling.

    Earlier in the night; it had snowed, so there was fresh snow on the ground. It looked like someone has just made a bed with a white sheet. But this bed wasn’t warm, it was freezing outside. And with the cold comes the fresh cold air that I pulled into my lungs with pride, as I was totally at peace.

    There was more than just snow that covered my neighborhood, there was also a light mist that compacted the area so close, that I could only see a half-a-block away. Thus enriching the peaceful experience.

    But there was one key feature that was missing, but because it was missing; my experience was at it’s fullest.
    What was missing?
    Sound.
    There was no sound to be heard. There was no noise from the traffic on the very busy 13th East, no barking dog in the distance, not even a slight gust of wind. There was nothing. Absolute stillness and peace.

    The sad thing about my experience though, I only witnessed such a great time and place for only two minutes. Well, of course it was well below freezing and I woke up at such an early time.

    *sigh* What I would give to go back in time and experience such a feeling all over again. But, since I am extremely visual, the image of that night in mid-December will forever remain in my head and heart.

    I am currently using that image to calm myself when I am in intense situations. For anger management, calming my anxiety, and something to think about to calm my depression.

    I hope you had a wonderful and enriching time reading this, as I took a some time out of my day to write all this.