Rain and Emotions

So the forecast for the Bay Area predicts rain for the next 10 or so days. Usually, I believe, the rainy season doesn't go this late. Usually, it seems, there are no more than a few days of rain before a break. But this is looking like solid rain.

I find myself feeling sad about this. It has helped me realize that the weather can take me out of the present quite easily. In reality, wonderful things may happen during this rainy phase. But they are less likely to happen if I am expecting to feel down.

Additionally, forecasts around here are rarely accurate for more than a day or two into the future. I wouldn't be tomorrow if the sun came out tomorrow afternoon.

I have negative associations of gray, rainy days, growing up in Michigan when I didn't yet have the techniques for coping with emotions that I have now. These past associations may be part of what comes up for me in the present. It's amazing that after all of the work I've done on myself, something as simple and basic as the weather can affect me so strongly.

I prefer the sun, but cognitive psychology would say I suffer when I try to make that preference a MUST.

These are the things I will keep in mind: the forecast may not be accurate; if it is accurate, sunny days are only a preference; I've felt sad on many sunny days so they are not a guarantee of joy; stay in the present; try to not judge what is happening.

Peace,
Chris

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