Just Pause and enjoy!
It is important to learn adding short pauses in your daily routine … you can plan for it or depend on your feeling as it will guide you when you feel drained and exhausted mentally, emotionally or physically.
Just pause … no talk, no conversation, no listening to music, no reacting to the outside noise … Just simply silence and stillness.
I started to add this pauses whenever I feel the the need to stay still … And it can be anywhere, my office, my car, park or even in mall … sometime I just entered the pray room, choose a spot and stay still by just closing my eyes.
7 minutes … that all what you need, in any place that can allow you to stay still and not interact with others during the whole seven minutes. This exercise important to make you realize that life will continue revolving around you, everything will remain streaming and nothing will stop because you stopped or withdrawn … life continue with or without you.
we tend sometime to give ourselves more credit or importance than we truly are and this disappoint us when people show it to us clearly … so instead of we getting hurt by our own expectation, let’s start learning the art of withdrawing whenever we felt drained, not appreciated, or our energy confuse the loved ones who around you instead of helping them … learn to withdraw and allow things to flow naturally without our interference.
it is liberating and enlightening to see how letting go and being present in the current moment with your full consciousness to small things around you can clear your mind, negative feelings will fade away and gradually your physical energy increase. Seven minutes of stillness and silence that all what you need and with repetitions you will start to notice the transformation on your interactions with lots of events around you.
So if have the mindset of a problem solver like me, and you start to practicing stillness and silence whenever an issue arise or someone want your help … you will notice first that your impulsiveness to rush and help will decrease as you will start to notice the behavior pattern to some of the people who approach you. Also you will learn to differentiate whether the person want solution or just want to throw the burden of the negative feeling that he/she carry on anyone around and then leave light … be careful to be the basket to other people garbage!
With time I started to realize that there is nothing good come out of sharing negative news, issues or problem, speaking about it will make it bigger … everyone want to put his opinion, some try to force you to use their solution and it won’t take long to realize that things become out of you control and you just entertained punch of people who have the habit of react with problems and the annoying thing is that most of the time you end up solving your problem and deal by yourself with all the drama that happened due to your sharing your issue. So just be silent and stay still for a while … bad feeling will fade away.
Last category of people who will find this article useful are the people who suffer from the “fear of missing things- Responsibility OCD“, taking few minutes to disconnect from everything around and stay still and ignore everything starting from the air conditioner, the discussions of some people near, the sounds of outside surrounding, the clock ticking, the email notification or phone sms notification … when you train your mind to understand that most of the time, things are not urgent as you assume, the call that you missed you will call it back when you become available, the email or sms can wait few minutes, the person who want to ask you something, can simply ask someone else and get the answer he/she need … the task that it require your participation 90% of the time can be delegated and done by someone else …
so if is not a matter of life or death … it can be delayed and done perfectly than done with poor quality and less concentration, So please stop rushing. Slow down and enjoy the beauty of life.