What are your plans for the summer? Are you making time to simply enjoy yourself? With unemployment steadily rising, and the recovery from the financial crisis taking more time than we might have thought (and certainly taking some strange off-shoots!), it is very easy to become overwhelmed. To focus on work and finances, to the exclusion of everything else, is an understandable fallback position.

However, when we do this we end up living at best a life that is too focused, too structured. At worst, we end up living a fear based life. How can we open things up, get the flow going, and still pay attention to detail? W can do this by staying centered in the present. The past has already happened, the future is yet to happen. We need to understand the past, to understand how we got where we are, but we need to pay attention to the moment. To see what is before us, to take the time to use each of our five senses to embrace life, and live it to its fullest.

Wake up with happy thoughts and a smile on your face. We all have worries, but we also have things to be happy about, to be thankful for. Start you day by listing five things that you are thankful for. You can do this mentally, you can keep a journal, you can record it – however you want to do this – just do it on a daily basis. When times are bad – look over your journal, and you will know that there is good out there.

Be thankful that you have a place to live. Be thankful that you saw that lovely picture in the clouds. Be thankful that you have the companionship of your pets. Be thankful that you enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea. See life in all of its colors and scents, in all of its wonderful movement. Be a part of this thing called life!

This week’s Medium was another incredible show! As usual – multiple storylines going. One concerned the detective that Alison works with, and the impending birth of his and his girlfriend’s baby. The second has to do with Alison’s family – her husband is now in California three days a week for work, and the first thing their sixteen year old daughter wants is the keys to the car! The third has to do with a bank robbery – and a bank teller with a penchant for dancing and a newfound ability to … you guessed it! She has a newfound ability to dream prophetic dreams – the first of which involves a robbery at her bank by two robbers wearing ski masks.

She is standing in the lobby trying to convince the bank president that there will be a robbery, when two robbers – in ski masks – come blazing through the door! Now the police have two psychics on their hands! The wanna-be bank teller psychic is this very nice middle aged, straight-laced lady who is very self effacing – but also very sure of what she has dreamt. She tries very hard not to step on Alison’s toes.

The next thing that she does is call Alison early one morning – telling her that she had another dream, and that the dream was so real that she went to the location in the dream – a park – and there was the very man that she had seen in her dream – dead.

Next up – both Alison and the bank teller get together with a police sketch artist – and come up with two completely different sketches! Could it be that the bank teller was in on the robbery?

And how did the fender on Dad’s car get dented – by the ten year old, not the sixteen year old!

Stay tuned next week for the season finale – Alison has a brain tumor, which, if operated on, just might take away her psychic ability!