Antidotes for everything but the swine flu

Just wanted to share this excerpt I borrowed from my yoga studio's monthly newsletter. I think that much of it applies to "the wait".

Human problems and antidotes...

Old Problem: Being a Victim
Antidote: Take Full Responsibility for Everything. Accept that YOU chose all your life experiences to give you exactly the lessons you most need.

Old Problem: Lack of Abundance
Antidote: Be Grateful for Everything Around You. Gratitude turns around Lack.

Old Problem: Anger
Antidote: Try huge doses of Compassion and Love. Realize that everyone is doing the best they can with the awareness they are given in each moment. Put yourself in their shoes for awhile.

Old Problem: Difficulties & Struggle
Antidote: Learn to see the gifts and lessons in them. They are always present.

Old Problem: Resentment & Envy
Antidote: Be grateful that anyone is experiencing something positive. If it happens to others, it opens the door for it to happen to you.

Old Problem: Frustration over Delays & Obstacles
Antidote: Trust the Perfection of the Timing. We can't force our way through to a state of Right Time, Right Place. Remember the lessons of water: how when there's a hole in its path, it takes awhile to fill up the hole before the water can go on. Or how when water meets an obstacle, it will keep flowing until it finds a way around the blockage. While you are waiting for the big breakthrough, keep making little breakthroughs.

Old Problem: Loneliness
Antidote: Create a good relationship with yourself. Start expressing your love and respect to everyone and everything around you. It doesn't matter if it's "animate" or "inanimate". Everything has a consciousness and resonance. As the Beatles sang, "The love you take is equal to the love you make."

Old Problem: Thinking Too Much; Worrying
Antidote: Get physical. Walk, clean, dance, garden, clear out your closet, do yoga, shovel snow.

Old Problem: Being Self-Absorbed; Self-Conscious
Antidote: Help others. By serving others, we serve ourselves.

Old Problem: Energies Too Directed Outside of Yourself
Antidote: Serve yourself. By serving ourself, we serve others.

Old Problem: Low Self Esteem
Antidote: Turn the place where you live into a sacred temple honoring your Core Being. Set up an altar, not to Gods and spiritual guides, but to your Core Being. Surround yourself with colors, objects, music, flowers which nourish you.