As we start moving forward into the new year, all our goals and plans rushing around once again and that ambitious energy starts to speed up. Thoughts start to creep in, am I on the right path? Am I doing all that I can be doing? this endless thinking about the future can bring about feelings of anxiety.
I have to remind myself how lucky we are to live in a country with so much freedom, freedom to create ourselves in anyway we choose. Although it would seem with more freedom of choice, the more we feel we should be doing or could be doing, and for most it brings about a feeling of anxiety, It seems this freedom comes with a price, a price of trying to get it all done.
There is hope in remembering this, there is never a stage where its ALL done, there will always be new tasks to accomplish, more emails to respond to and hopefully a new day to wake up and choose how to best spend our time. The choice is there to live with grace, although too often we turn the other way being consumed with repetitive thoughts wishing things be very different or just wanting to be somewhere else in another dreamt up moment. This can be described as the path of struggle, its a fighting against the moment and constantly living either two steps ahead or regretting/reminiscing about the past.. By stopping and paying attention to what we are doing, living in the fullness of this moment, whatever that may be, we start to realise there actually there is nowhere to get to - we are now here.
Being free isn’t about having nothing to do, for me it is feeling free whilst doing, that means letting go of outcomes and expectation and all the judgements we come up with, focusing on one task at a time and being present with the individual steps.
By simplifying life down to moment by moment I start to notice I can choose to enjoy doing it all.
There is hope in remembering this, there is never a stage where its ALL done, there will always be new tasks to accomplish, more emails to respond to and hopefully a new day to wake up and choose how to best spend our time. The choice is there to live with grace, although too often we turn the other way being consumed with repetitive thoughts wishing things be very different or just wanting to be somewhere else in another dreamt up moment. This can be described as the path of struggle, its a fighting against the moment and constantly living either two steps ahead or regretting/reminiscing about the past.. By stopping and paying attention to what we are doing, living in the fullness of this moment, whatever that may be, we start to realise there actually there is nowhere to get to - we are now here.
Being free isn’t about having nothing to do, for me it is feeling free whilst doing, that means letting go of outcomes and expectation and all the judgements we come up with, focusing on one task at a time and being present with the individual steps.
By simplifying life down to moment by moment I start to notice I can choose to enjoy doing it all.
I started this blog as part of the 'free to dream' project a close friend created. It's to help raise awareness and funds for those who have ended up in circumstances where they aren't so free. Human trafficking is a problem across the world, with people still living in slavery..you can read more here http://free-to-dream.org/
