Where performing ends, masking drops, and the caged system dismantles the bars.
The habit that will most subtly change your life is observing all that goes on (in your body, in your mind, emotionally, in your relationships, etc.) rather than reacting to things immediately. The shift from bracing and reacting to gently observing, pausing, and responding only if necessary creates a space. In that space, peace is found. The nervous system is no longer on alert. You remove interference rather than believing you have to keep adding things to make life better. You stop fixing and forcing, and just live.
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The most practical way to stop searching and just be is to slow down. Just go 10% slower in one activity a day. When you purposely go slower, you begin to notice the ways you’re constricting the flow of life — the just being. There’s no reaching for growth or trying to fix anything. In fact, it opens you to what’s been there all along.
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The best way to overcome a troubled mind is to let it be troubled. We tend to equate overcoming with fixing, forcing, doing. The key is actually to allow what’s present to just be present without needing it to be different. It will unkink itself all on its own without our intervention.