Hesperis,

My life has been blessed ; ) with a number of linear thinking, left brain oriented, logical thinkers. This is how I comfort myself. I think about how I'm going to feel when I get to the end of my life and I look back on it. I feel pretty confident that I'm going to feel good about the way I lived my life, the decisions I made, and the perspective on reality that I embraced.

I am also pretty confident that the people I know who choose differently are going to feel just as good about their choices as I do about mine. And that's good.

For everyone else: If anyone wants to try dissolving clouds, it's not too hard as long as you are realistic about choosing your cloud. On a calm, sunny day with a few puffy clouds in the sky, pick a small cloud that isn't moving too fast as your target.

Get as relaxed as you can. It doesn't work well at all if you are tense or anxiously expectant.

Look at the cloud, and then close your eyes and imagine the cloud dissolving slowly until it dissapears. Expect it to take a few minutes (for me, it takes about ten to fifteen minutes). Before you do this, make a mental map of the other clouds in the area, so you know that your cloud is behaving differently than the others. Otherwise you might think it's a coincidence that the cloud dissapeared.

You can check on it from time to time to see how it's progressing, and so you don't lose track of it.

Some people prefer to just visualize empty sky where the cloud is. That method doesn't work as well for me, but everybody's different.

It's important to keep in mind that this is strictly a mental process. If you allow your emotions to get involved, it probably won't work too well. Also, you want to be conscious of your breathing. You want to breathe deeply, and keep your breathing slow.

I won't suggest that this will work for everyone, but so far, I've never seen it fail. Except when people tried to do it on big clouds, or clouds that were moving too quickly.

Happy dissolving,

Carol