Trying to be peaceful just makes me more anxious. It seems that no matter how hard I try, it just doesn’t happen. Oh yes, for a minute perhaps I’ve conquered it, but not yet. Then I think that meditation will settle me down. So, I sit with a myriad of thoughts pounding in my head. Desperation overtakes this mediation, and I can’t stay seated. I just have to move.
If this has been your experience, take heart. You can meditate, as can I. However, I learned that something has to change, and it’s not the time of day or the right music to calm ruffled feathers. No – I must be willing to stop bouncing from one task to another, AKA multitasking. I must learn to become peace.
Release some steam from your pressure cooker head, I said to myself. Let it float into the air and dissipate. Be present to what is…this moment.
Now I sit calmly and peacefully. I allow what comes to be a passer-by. Another of life’s challenges accepted, at least for this NOW.
Written for you with Love,
If this has been your experience, take heart. You can meditate, as can I. However, I learned that something has to change, and it’s not the time of day or the right music to calm ruffled feathers. No – I must be willing to stop bouncing from one task to another, AKA multitasking. I must learn to become peace.
Release some steam from your pressure cooker head, I said to myself. Let it float into the air and dissipate. Be present to what is…this moment.
Now I sit calmly and peacefully. I allow what comes to be a passer-by. Another of life’s challenges accepted, at least for this NOW.
Written for you with Love,
Barbara
Meditation is stopping, calming and looking deeply.
---Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditation is stopping, calming and looking deeply.
---Thich Nhat Hanh
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