Life is messy, chaotic and sometimes loud. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to get away to someplace serene?
You could create a sacred space to pray, read or meditate.
You could go someplace quiet like the library, the woods, a little corner in your backyard, an empty church.
Or you could create a sacred space that can always be with you know matter what is happening around you.
Stop. Breathe. In… out… in… out… in…out. Now picture in your mind a place or thing that reminds you of serenity. Waves lapping at a quiet beach. The view from a mountaintop. Sitting by a stream. Praying in a monastary. That tree you used to visit as a kid. Swans on a lake.
Keep picturing it until you start feeling more relaxed.
How will you create serenity today?
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Lately I’ve written much about the chaotic mind, the propensity we have to over-think and the inability so many of us have to escape the internal noise, get out of our thoughts and find our way back to a little tranquility.
Or as Happy Gilmour calls it, our Happy Place. Being constantly trapped in our stinkin’ thinkin’ can be a ticket to depression, anxiety and stress… not to mention the possibility of those less-than-desirable decisions, behaviours and outcomes. If you’re a chronic over-thinker, you know exactly what I’m talking about. All too often our thinking gets in the way of our happiness and our peace of mind. And our career. And relationships. And potential. And health. And… the list goes on.
The realisation that “I am not my thoughts” can be a very liberating one for people who not only identify strongly with their thoughts, but actually become their thoughts. In case you’ve never been told, I’ll tell you now:
“You are not your thoughts and your thoughts are not you.”
Thought Happens
Thought happens automatically, independently and continually, as do all of our internal processes – circulation, respiration, chemical reactions, sweating, vaso-constriction and dilation, digestion, healing… and many more. Yes we can choose what we do with, or about, our thoughts, and yes we can ‘manage’ our cerebral landscape to a point, but the human condition means that thoughts will constantly arrive in our head, like a never-ending stream of cars pulling into a petrol (gas) station. And naturally, many of those cars aren’t vehicles we wanna drive.
Craig
Thanks for the great info Craig!