Wisdom from Dolly

Ever get lost in a thought loop about whatever your problem, fear, worry, hurt is? I sure have.

It’s so easy to get emotionally dragged down by these circumstances and end up camping out in that energetically low space.

Dolly Parton, may she be singing with the angels, recently reminded me that, we can simply pick ourselves up and think about or do something else.

My five year old has become obsessed with Dolly Parton’s song, “Two Doors Down.”

Per his request, I probably listen to this song a minimum of 10 times a day everyday for the last couple of weeks. I have had a lot of opportunities to reflect on it.

In this song, Dolly is sad about something. She had been sitting around crying, but she realizes that there is a party happening two doors down.

She eventually decides to dry her “useless tears” and get herself together and head down to enjoy the party. She has a great time even though whatever her problem was didn’t disappear.

She made a conscious choice to be happy. Joy didn’t find her, she found and chose joy. She chose a higher energetic space.

We can sit and stew in our anxiety, depression, anger etc, or we can be like Dolly and change our neural pathways, raise the vibration, and enjoy life despite whatever the burden of the day is.

Easier said than done sometimes, but it’s powerful when we can do it.

If I have learned anything in my 35 years, life is going to keep throwing stuff our way.

Sometimes we have to actively choose peace and joy. Life is a party, let’s choose to join it.