Feeling Blue? A Fine Frenzy Can Help You...

How can you resist listening to a musician who calls herself A Fine Frenzy?  Genius name. More, she shows a fine balance of delicate (yin) and strong (yang) in both the lyrics and the tunes. Lyrics like 

"Unafraid you can name your scars 

with a touch of a new heart..."

are from the video above, Now is the Start, where the written lyrics are artistically incorporated into the video. Watchable, danceable, singeable...a fine frenzy indeed!

But wait, there's more. Alison Sudol aka A Fine Frenzy is quoted in Huffington Post's GPS series on how she handles feeling blue. A couple of her suggestions:

Get outside! "When all my soldiers are fighting each other inside and I can't seem to get things calmed down, nothing fixes things quite like a walk through some sort of tree-filled place. Preferably, a body of water is involved. If real wilderness is an option, that is the best. Sometimes, just sitting in a grove of tall trees, listening to the chatter of the birds and the rustle of leaves overhead, sunlight peeping through the green, can suddenly make all the pieces fall into place...That's when I can start to hear what I really think and feel what I really feel. I feel big and small at the same time, just one tiny body in a world far older and wiser than I'll ever be...and yet, I get to be a part of it, and so do you. Lucky us!"

Get sleep! "Sleep and I are not always friendly. When I don't sleep enough, not only am I a big horrible grump, everything seems much harder to deal with. Here are some things that help me sleep: hot milk with cinnamon and honey (soothing and yummy), stretching, enough exercise and fresh air during the day, and meditation (I use Deepak Chopra's meditation CDs, they're great, even if you've never meditated before...I like "The Soul of Healing Meditations"; it's a good place to start.)"

Great advice - even better would be to make the hot milk non-dairy. Cinnamon is a warming ingredient in Traditional Chinese medicine; dairy and soy is cooling.