You know how sometimes things seem to be telling you something?
(This is a cognitive bias, of course--the universe is not trying to tell me anything. It's not trying to do anything, unless, as Neil deGrasse Tyson says, it's "trying" to kill me, i.e., work its entropy on me and spread my atoms around.)
But anyway, psychologically it's good to listen up.
Lately I've strung together a whole bunch of messages, all the same:
Slow down.
☛Running for the bus and falling flat on my face.
☛A coworker telling me I'm "too hyper." (I don't like this coworker, who always has a sour expression, but that doesn't mean she's wrong.)
☛NOT taking breaks at work, even though my hand therapist advised me to.
Yesterday even the wheatgrass I drank the co-op said, BALANCE.*
And last night, Mr Boss posted a line from Exodus (14:14) on FB:
I will patiently keep pondering, practicing, and inviting a bit of stillness.
* At the co-op, the woman eating a breakfast sandwich next to me commented, “My mind says wheatgrass but my body says bacon.”
** It actually says "The Lord will fight for you", but I always cringe at that lord, lord language––I picture an unpleasant old guy in a manor, and me a serf.
So I change it to "love"--a valid swap, since 1 John says, "God is love," in the sense that God = Love; therefore Love = God.
Right? Any logicians out there?
(This is a cognitive bias, of course--the universe is not trying to tell me anything. It's not trying to do anything, unless, as Neil deGrasse Tyson says, it's "trying" to kill me, i.e., work its entropy on me and spread my atoms around.)
But anyway, psychologically it's good to listen up.
Lately I've strung together a whole bunch of messages, all the same:
Slow down.
☛Running for the bus and falling flat on my face.
☛A coworker telling me I'm "too hyper." (I don't like this coworker, who always has a sour expression, but that doesn't mean she's wrong.)
☛NOT taking breaks at work, even though my hand therapist advised me to.
Yesterday even the wheatgrass I drank the co-op said, BALANCE.*
And last night, Mr Boss posted a line from Exodus (14:14) on FB:
"Love will fight for you; you need only to be still.” **
I like that quote a lot. Sometimes I am approaching work as if it were a fight I need to win. If I'm going to see it that way, I could relax and let Love take it on.
But, how? What would help me do this?
I will patiently keep pondering, practicing, and inviting a bit of stillness.
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* At the co-op, the woman eating a breakfast sandwich next to me commented, “My mind says wheatgrass but my body says bacon.”
** It actually says "The Lord will fight for you", but I always cringe at that lord, lord language––I picture an unpleasant old guy in a manor, and me a serf.
So I change it to "love"--a valid swap, since 1 John says, "God is love," in the sense that God = Love; therefore Love = God.
Right? Any logicians out there?
