Friday, Jul 1, 2011Reconnect With Your Inner Self

We all lead busy, busy lives.  We’ve grown up during a time when optimizing one’s life has become the norm and hours and hours are spent being productive and creative. But what about your inner self?

Your mind can only take so much of this without screaming out for mercy, so I’m writing to you today about the importance of doing nothing from time to time – about taking breaks- and how to put in perspective your busy life.

If you are super busy, you might find yourself doing circular thinking – not being able to come to a decision about anything and mulling something over and over in a circular manner.  HINT:  it’s your inner self signaling to you that you need to slow down, relax a bit, let your mind go slack and just drift for a while.  It would be an opportunity to shut out all of the things that surround us and go within where it’s quiet, calm and serene.  It is, you know?

Rest a bit and go within.  Give your mind, your soul and your spirit a good-guy or good-gal break so you can regain a sense of energy before you crank things up to breakneck speed again because you know you will!

You may think this is a complete waste of time because, heck, we only have 24 hours in a day and all of them have to be productive, right? It’s not a waste of time.  In fact, it’s quite productive, because it allows you to tune into your own limitless potential and come back to the more active part of your life refreshed and renewed.  It’s invaluable.

When you stop to smell the roses, or you have a cup of coffee with your feet on an ottoman, or you take a play break with your children, or you simply watch the wind blowing the treetops, you let go of your fears and doubts and you dip deeply inside yourself to your truest nature.  You may get in touch with nature, or the vastness of your place in the universe or your own sense of inner peace.  This activity is the real nature of our work here in this state of relativity.

It helps us to establish perspective.  It lets us see that our everyday challenges are eminently small.  It can let us put in perspective our challenges so we don’t get swallowed up in mere issues – mere based on the vastness we have just considered.  It allows us a more positive, happy outlook or perspective and when we return to our work-a-day world, we come back lightened and enlightened.  All this from just taking a breather!  I’m sure you can see how important these breathers are now.
If you are able to grant yourself these tiny, mini-vacations, you are giving yourself a fabulous gift.  When you step away from your daily challenges that seem to be of the utmost importance, you instead decrease their burden.  Simultaneously, you return to your true nature and inner self – lying within just waiting for your visit – which grants you the blessing of the moment.  You become more open to the wisdom and intelligence that lives within you because it IS you.