February 18, 2005 1:08 PM

Cure your Sunday Blues: Look to the Budda
Posted by at 1:08 PM

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, there's a reason for our propensity to feel blue on Sunday as we contemplate the work week ahead.

Part of the reason stems from the routine and regimen of our grade school days. The other seems to derive from our go-go American lifestyles which keep us looking ahead to something else, and perhaps ignoring the obvious that exists right before our very eyes.

For Sunday sufferers, it can be hard to seize the day when they have already snatched it from themselves. "We're always living about 18 hours ahead of ourselves," says William Bridges, an author and consultant on business transition.

Leave it to the Buddhists to figure out that time shifting is a root cause of unhappiness. "We live in our expectations, not our experience," Mr. Bridges notes. "Buddhism emphasizes learning mindfulness of the moment. That's the answer as much as anything."