Three thoughts:
A simple and consistent rule is if it does not click with your intuition, it is a no thank you. Even if you live a very long life, time is limited, this creates a situation where you need to be intentional with your energy. Saying yes to projects and people that you feel halfhearted about could cause you an unnecessary amount of exhaustion. When your life is full of responsibility, it is even more important to carve out small moments of time that are just for you to spend the way you like. Being the master of your own time, being the director of your own energy, is a needed mindset that helps you achieve your goals and attain greater fulfillment. This is not just about productivity, reclaiming your power to govern your own life is a critical component of inner peace and mental harmony. Make sure that when you say yes, you are saying yes to your wellbeing first.
How you treat yourself in your mind is visible in the way you treat the people you encounter in daily life. Your inner world is constantly shaping your outer world and that includes the way you speak and act. When a person demonstrates unwarranted rudeness, hostility, anger, and roughness, it is a sign that their mind is a volatile place, a home without peace. The turbulence in their mind is spilling over and reaching for whoever is nearest. Often, when an individual is locked into a mode of hyper defensiveness, as if life were a battle, this means there is a lot of unresolved trauma and old pain that has created layers of thick conditioning. This makes it hard to produce actions outside of the heavily knotted up habit patterns that they picked up while trying to survive. You can only give what you have, but that does not mean that we are all stuck as we are. The mind is mutable, it has the capacity to change. What is needed is determination and good tools to help us undo the mental weight we carry.
The world is changing fast, especially technologically. The speed at which we receive information and the views of others on our phones/screens is daunting. Forcing ourselves to have an opinion on every single matter that arises is unrealistic, it takes a lot of time to process unbiased information that can help us build an educated view on a topic. To slow ourselves down, so we can simply listen, ponder and learn more about different global situations feels hard when the internet is begging us to jump to conclusions. There is also the ancient urge to adopt the opinions of those around us so that we do not feel left out of the herd. Even so, if we want to live in our power, we need to slow down, especially if it feels like the world is moving fast. There is nothing wrong with saying, “I actually want to learn more about what is going on before I give my opinion.” The speed at which technology moves is anxiety inducing and it can set us up to think frantically, to jump from extreme to extreme. This means that the tools we use to develop our inner peace and wellbeing are more important than ever. To be able to deal with the chaos of the world, we need to consistently tend to our inner harmony. To do that, it is essential to hold our healing as a top priority.
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Journal Prompt:
What are you excited to put your time into? How do you deal with how fast the world changes? Can you slow down to form your own view? What do you want April to feel like for you?
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Intuition, Hostility, & Technology
Great read! Balancing our inner wisdom and the new capabilities these tools give us will be the challenge of our generation.
So very apt and timely; deep bow.