Too Busy !

Every one is too busy!

All people seem so over stimulated by sound, light, crowds
that there seems to be less and less "Inner Peace".
How can any type of person Love without any Peace?

Peace is necessary for deep thought but not for reactions.
Reactions account for much of living as I observe it day to day.
Not thought out carefully selected acts.
Even big choices are often made quickly now.

Now really when is the last time YOU thought about the BIG PICTURE?

Published in August but typed last winter thinking any day I would get into that BLOG Tom started.

I have noticed that feelings HAPPEN

I have noticed that "Feelings Happen", on the best of days I don't get "Stuck" in any of them.

My emotional flow is much like the wading I enjoyed so as a child. I recall the cool water gently massaging my feet, ankles and calves in a meadow stream by a picnic table.

Not all of life is like the meadow. Some feelings are like wet sand, firm and yet stable and then other feelings are more like walking on rocks or in muck or worse.
Some days my feelings are more like making my way up a fast moving mountain stream, climbing from rock to rock ever higher and fascinating at every turn.

Crisis time is much like a storm swollen river uncertain footing, debris / treasures passing with in and out side of easy reach. Possibly stepping into too deep water or slipping and sitting down HARD wishing for rescue or at least some help.

By choice I build feeling dams so I can step back in and float in the wonderful pool of a good feeling. Crisis time is building time.

By choice I get out as fast as possible when a flood of icky feelings over take me resisting any temptation to wallow in the muck or feel hopeless about the depth and dirt and debris.

Move on, even a tiny MOVE is better than stuck so move on.

Tricky spots have intrinsic and eventual value. A full feeling life has a lot of wading through feelings and also swimming and floating too in order to regain firm footing and lovely flow.

It's possible to learn to step between slippery feelings/rocks, not slide off them. It is hard work to remove or move big rocks (habitual emotional reactions) but they make the best dam and the resulting pool to float in is so refreshing.

Learning to float and swim well is essential! As crisis will occur, even in shallow streams some flood can come. At the next turn the brook may join an incredibly large river. Just go for the banks and watch for the next brook and attempt to swim / wade up it's gentle current.

Much of my feeling life is my own and yet my peak experiences are invariably shared often "hand in hand" or even more intimate. A lot of good feelings are also "together."

I recall Jesus calmed the storm and walked on water.