8 Little Changes You Need for a Happier Daily Routine
Your daily routine can make you feel trapped and exhausted—or help you become the person you want to be.
By Arianna Davis, Lindsay Funston and Leslie Garrett
Cure Your Free-Floating Malaise
Feeling meh and not sure why? Put your head in the clouds—or rather, tilt it back to look at the clouds. Taking a few minutes to marvel at the "evocative, poetic beauty" above you is a powerful, uplifting meditation, says Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. Quiet your mind by looking for specific types: stratocumulus (low hanging, white to dark gray), cirrus (delicate brushstrokes), Kelvin-Helmholtz (breaking waves) and pileus, which resemble, according to Pretor-Pinney, a "Donald Trump comb-over." He adds, "Clouds invite us to see the exotic in the everyday."
From the September 2014 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine