Dear Mama,
What do you do when you're so stressed and panicked you just want to run away to the circus? Would I be a failure if I spent the rest of my life selling popcorn?

Precious Daughter,
Popcorn smells wonderful. There are few smells like it. If you were selling popcorn you would be bringing this wonderful sense of contentment and wellbeing to others. You would also be in a place where there are clowns and other amusements somewhere in the vicinity. These are good things. You would also be under a roof.

In all, I think it would be a grand thing.

If one focuses on the problem and tells oneself that there is too much to do and that there is not enough time, then this becomes ones experience.

If ones shifts ones focus to the place of knowing that there is an abundance of time and that things will unfold in perfect manner, then this becomes ones reality. A way to get there is by;

taking a deep breath, focusing on ones feet, seeing oneself as a tree, draining ones stresses and tensions into the ground, through ones roots, imagining Mother Earth receiving these heavy energies and turning them into mulch, in return sending up nourishment, which fills ones trunk and spreads out to ones branches, which rise to the sky where one receives life-force from the sun, and in this place, between the Heaven and Earth, one realizes that All is truly well in the world. That ones life is unfolding in perfect manner. That what is, is just right for the moment, because what is, is, and what you have is what you have, and it is enough, because it has to be enough. And you are enough, and what you have to give is enough. And you realize the most important thing of all, that there is nothing more valuable to accomplish in this world than to be at peace with the moment.

Then you take another deep breath, (though of course there has been many natural breaths since the last deep breath), again bringing your focus to your feet, knowing that at any time during the day, if you start feeling out of control, you may take a deep breath, become aware of your feet, and you will again remember all the things you've come to realize about the abundance of wellbeing whose potential rests within each moment.

To which she replied:

thank you :)

Good thing you remembered to mention the several natural breath in between the deep breaths. However, you forgot to mention to spit out chewing gum before the deep breath. I nearly choked.