Momentum: What My Cat Knows

This morning,  I crumpled up a tea bag cover (the herbal ones make good toys) and threw it for our cat Charlie.  He ran after it, then stopped.  I picked it up and did it again, and then again.  In the interims, I held him and he purred.  Around time #4 of the sequence he ran around wildly as though the paper ball had just come to life, picked it up in his mouth, and brought it back to me - which he repeated.  The more he did this, the more I petted him, the more he raised his back to greet the affection, the more enthused he was to continue. 

Once in a while, Charlie would roll around next to the toy, basking in the pleasure of it all. Then he returned to his previous pattern of play.  And I thought: "Charlie's onto something here."

Charlie knows how to create positive momentum.   First, he receives the love, then he allows the good feeling to inspire him to action ( = play), then he basks in what he's created ( = appreciation), and then he feeds the cycle by starting all over again. 

The flip side is that negative momentum can be created as well.  We can bat a negative thought about until it has more and more power and impact on us emotionally, we can not receive the love around us, and we can choose not to bask in the goodness of the moment.

What do you want to bat around today?

Love,
Jen