Today I am enjoying my ‘downtime’. We have had our family, who are on their way to Tenerife for a week’s holiday, for a couple of days. They will stay with us for a week on their return.
So life is good having had the pleasure and busyness of them staying especially with a 10 and 7 year old. The youngest decided that he would cut everything that grew in the garden (with the help and encouragement of his father!).
Everything turned out fine, I have to say, so pure enjoyment for him.
We went for a long walk in our Country Park and ended up for a slow-moving lunch which was just what we needed to rest, be at peace and relax after the heat of the sun and the ups and downs of the terrain.
This brings me onto that sense of peacefulness we all crave and can pursue it far and wide by reading, writing, attending courses and so on. It is so elusive – at least for me!
It is not, in my opinion, a ‘to do’ thing that we have to achieve by sitting cross-legged on the floor and ‘ohming’ – don’t all rush now to complain as I do know that this is the way for some of you.
It is about including and acknowledging your thoughts and not about trying really, really hard to stop them. This won’t happen with all the will power in the world, I can assure you.
Whether you practice meditation, chant mantras or follow your breath or not, I want you to see that in your everyday activities, this feeling of being at peace with yourself can come in the middle of a rather crazy cafe through being part of enjoyment of life.
Love to hear how you have your moments of being at peace.
