Patronus

I can't sleep, so it's time for a short new entry. Guess all of you know the idea of a patronus from Harry Potter. Well that's also how I call my safe spot. My therapist introduced me to the idea of the safe spot. It's a place in your mind or imagination, where you can return whenever you feel frightened. In the beginning I had to build up a kind of room or place. I tried and found a place, but it didn't really work, so I thought of the patronus ideas- as the thought of a pensieve helped me to make the bank vault exercise, where you put in memories, you don't want to think of at the moment. Guess I'm more the Harry Potter type ;).
Well instead of a room or space I tried to do the safe spot exercise with a strong memory, like you had to use in the Harry Potter novels to perform the patronus spell- and it worked. It's a very personal and wonderful memory for me- some of you I told about it. Seems love is the thing when it comes to feeling safe and happy. As it`s very personal, I won`t describe the memory, instead I will give you a short song quotation from the movie 'Legend', which perfectly describes the feeling and situation of my patronus memory:

Living river, turn light to diamonds
When I look in my true love's eyes.
Like a child feels watching a rainbow.
Like a bird feels the first time it flies.
I feel magic stirring within me,
When I look in my true love's eyes.