Enough

One way I like to bring myself back to center is to read a page or two in a book that I love and then take something from the reading into a mindfulness moment.  Maybe just a few minutes or longer if that feels good.  The image above is from one of my all time favorite books, Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh.  A friend gave me this book 22 years ago and I have read and re-read it several times.  It nourishes my soul and always provides for some great re-minders.

Peace of Mind Funk

Yesterday I was in the strangest funk. For lack of a better way to describe it, I am going to call it my peace of mind funk. Peace of mind because for quite some time I have been in a good place. Oh sure, things come up, but overall I really have nothing to complain about. Really! It is awesome. And, I have been pretty good at not analyzing it and just letting myself be here, noticing the beauty of it all.

So, when I found myself a little on the down side yesterday it was such a peculiar feeling. I felt down, but for no particular reason. It wasn't a "bad" feeling just a little heavy. I noticed I wanted to analyze it, but I kept re-minding myself to just be here.

I did all of the things I normally do, I journalled, talked with a friend, meditated, read some inspiring things, went for a walk in the sunshine and finally even took a nap. I still felt about the same. That's when I picked up a novel I had started a couple of months ago. It felt so nice to ease into a good story. I had forgotten how nice a "no thinking, easy going, not gonna necessarily learn anything from this" book can be.

I am grateful I re-membered!

Re-membering to Re-lease

While re-flecting on an Abraham Hicks video I watched yesterday, I had an awareness I am grateful I re-membered. The topic was how children with special needs can teach us that we can not change them - we cannot control them. As I thought about it I was thinking of all the times I have tried to control someone else, and failed.

I was re-minded of how miserable I was when I tried to control people, places and things around me. As I sat there pondering I had an "aha moment." Recently I have been experiencing a lot of serenity in my life, and every time I have been tempted to "figure it out," I have re-minded myself to just be. I have re-minded myself that if there is information for me to be aware of concerning this serenity it will come to me. That is exactly what happened.

Sitting there considering my serenity and the thoughts I had about trying to control things making me miserable I realized that lately I had let go of a lot of control. I had been catching myself when I want to control people places and things, and although I had not done it perfectly I had made the choice much sooner to re-lease control and let it be.

Ahhhhhhh, peace of mind.........