Where Is My Inner Peace
filed in Mind, Body Connection on Feb 7, 2007
That is the question I ask myself often during the day. I invite you to ask yourself the same question. Most people I see professionally and personally all have busy schedules with more to do than there is time for. I would suspect you do as well. What I often see is that the more people have to do, the faster they physically move through their day. People become comfortable with the pace and don’t even recognize that they are rushing from one thing to another.
But what is really happening? I notice in my own body that if I am rushing with the goal in mind to accomplish as much as I can, I become physically tense, mentally exhausted, less connected to my body and certainly not as tuned to my higher self or my intuition. At the end of the day a part of me feels successful because I have checked off most of what was on my list, but my body is tense, my heart feels closed and I lost my inner peace.
Trying to stay conscious, I constantly remind myself to walk slower, talk slower and put all of my attention on the activity that I am presently doing. That means letting go of the 10 other things on my mind that have not yet been done. If I really discipline myself and do this for the full day,what happens is that things seem to fall in a natural priority, my body stays relaxed, and at the end of the day, I have not lost my inner peace.
Try walking slower and talking slower, and placing your full attention on one thing at a time, just for a day or two, and check in with at the end of the day and see what happens in your mind, body and heart. Is there a difference in how you feel?
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