I used to wake up to a forest fire in my mind every day. Immediately upon waking the fire would start. Whatever peace that had graced the forest during the night was abruptly disrupted by the shame, guilt, fear, and anxiety-ridden thoughts that had become just part of my mental routine. These are the mind fires. …
Multitasking is an illusion. You’re not performing multiple tasks at once, you’re task-switching. Quickly switching focus between multiple things creates the illusion that we’re doing multiple things simultaneously. It may feel like we are getting more done, but in a state of chronictask-switching, we lose the ability to direct our attention to a single thing. We …
I’m a morning person, I’ve come to accept. It started as me being an insomniac for much of my life and just accepting that since I wake up at 4 am regularly, I might as well just become a morning person. But just because I’m a morning person, doesn’t mean it’s any easier for me …
We find the answers to the questions we ask ourselves. Questions like: “what’s wrong with me?” prompt us to find the answer to that question. I come up with answers as to what is wrong with me. Questions like: “how do I learn and grow from this?” cause us to find the answers to that question. I …
Show me, let me see.Teach me, let me learn. Guide me, let me follow.Trust me, let me lead. Hold me, let me cry.Fool me, let me laugh. Free me, let me fall.Free, me: let me fly.
One of the biggest reasons self-doubt is self-defeating is not just the feeling of incompetence, unworthiness, and fear; but that we spend valuable time agonizing whether or not we’re capable, instead of actually spending our time solving the problems in front of us. Problems that if we confronted would actually increase our self-confidence. We ask …
I close my eyes … An eclipse,A void.Light is no longerSomething seen,OnlySomething felt. Perhaps it was for meTo learn, to understand,That what light illuminesCan neither be seen,Nor unseen.
Uninterrupted Flow,Cultivating a sense of ease. DilationOf the channelThrough which awarenessPours into my senses,Out into the world,And back intoMy heart. Forever unfoldingA crease to each opening,Something leftTo be revealed;Something right.
Tension in feeling like I need to know. Tension in feeling like I ought to know by now. Tension in feeling behind. Tension in feeling like a failure. Tension in wanting things to be the way I want.
If I could just learn to let things be. I could just learn to let things be. Just learn to let things be. Learn to let things be. To let things be. Let things be. Things be. Be. B. ∞
