I love this from Eckhart Tolle:
When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation.
Use your senses fully
Be where you are
Look around
Just look, don’t interpret
See the light, colours, shapes, textures.
Be aware of the silent presence of each thing.
Be aware of the space that allows everything to be.
Listen to the sounds; don’t judge them.
Listen to the silence between the sounds.
Touch something – anything- and feel and acknowledge its being.
Observe the rhythm of your breathing; feel the air flowing in and out,
feel the life energy inside your body.
Allow everything to be, within and without.
Allow the Is-ness of all things
Move deeply into the now
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.
Why do I love it?
Because if I stop in the midst of now, I notice that there aren’t problems.
I can put more problems into the space, somebody else to add to my own
But what if don’t?
What if I create a gap in the midst – to notice myself and the space I am in
To notice the gap between the problem exists a me, and I am not a problem, the problem isn’t me
The problem exists outside of me
I want to have it consume me less, and I want to step away
And be me, and not my problems, and be me, and not your problems
I am the sky, and I am bigger than the cloud
Many reasons, what about you?
James Ballantyne 