Having a bad day? This will help.

Just in case you're having a bad day, week or life, here is a stress management technique recommended in all the latest psychological journals. It really works!

1. Picture yourself lying on your tummy on a warm rock that hangs out over a crystal clear stream.

2. Picture yourself with both hands dangling in the cool running water.

3. Birds are sweetly singing in the cool mountain air.

4. No one knows your secret place.

5. You are in total seclusion from that hectic place called the world.

6. The soothing sound of a gentle water fall fills the air with a cascade of serenity....

7. The water is so crystal clear that you can easily make out the face of the person you are holding underwater.

There! It works, you're smiling already....

You just made my day!

i kept thinking of running my hands through axle grease...

I know what my next meditation is going to be now . . .

Sounds like my hammock next to our stream

I'm imagining I'm holding the d-bags who tagged my car underwater right now. Thanks, I needed that.

Haha... I actually worked for me though before that last line... because the person I'd be holding down was myself...

It only works for me if, after completing step 7, I then imagine Miatas parachuting out of the sky, complete with full tanks of gas, keys in the ignitions, and clean titles in the consoles. Ahhh.

I've had that one hanging on the wall above my desk for about ten years now. Today was one of those days where I had to stop what I was doing, take a deep breath and read it again.

I like your Pontiac anyway.

Drew Peterson lives/lived one town away from me. I imagine he knows about this.

Tub water isn't crystally clear.....