When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. But above all don’t wobble! Lin Chi
How much do we wobble?
Instead of being present, how much of our lives is spent in wobbling mode... trying to do 2-3-4 things at once? Have you been to a coffee shop lately? How many of us are sitting with someone...but looking at our cell phones? How long do we hold focus on a project before we are interrupted...the phone rings, a text or pop up appears, we get hungry?....
We loose our focus...we start wobbling.
We loose our focus...we start wobbling.
If we want to un-stress our lives and be who we are capable of being … become present... an undistracted version of ourselves. Imagine showing up everyday...fully us. Not wobbling, but clear, present and engaged.
listening, tasting, seeing, smelling, feeling... present...
Who could we all become and what are we cable of doing by just reducing distractions and limiting our wobbling?
When we are going to write...we write
When we do the dishes... we do the dishes
When we watch tv...we watch tv
When we listen...we listen
When we walk... we walk
When we drive... we drive
What a novel idea right? It is stupidly simple...and yet
Why are we a society of distracted souls?
More importantly... how do we want to show up in this world?
The truth is, when we are fully ourselves, nourished, happy and healthy, we make the world a better place. We show up.
It's usually in the removal that we find true selves... not in the addition of. Practicing the art of subtraction makes room for our lives to breath and then to flourish. A life that flourishes has a way of spreading beyond ourselves. Like the internet, we are a web of connections. Imagine if all our connectors we clean, happy and healthy working together. Presently
A morning thought
from my desk
during my own quiet time
un-wobbled space
Denise Frakes...wobbler, runner, writer.....
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