Someone made a good point during a Toastmasters meeting recently that resonated with me. The topic was about good advice someone once told you. One guy told a story about how his father had once given him the simple advice to slow down. It really made me think. It’s so easy to get yourself set in a fevered pitch where you’re just zooming past all the important thinking and contemplation you need to do. Not to mention all the important details essential to living a happy life, like thinking about other people, and taking care of small but important responsibilities. How often do you just sit and think?
I overload myself with commitments on my time and energies so much so that I rarely have time to decompress. I fill my environment with activity and noise to drown out the internal noise, but I should try to calm down my own thinking. How do you do that? If you can slow down your thought processes, you should calm down. Try to narrate your experience in your head like “I see the moon is bright tonight. I hear crickets. I smell moisture.” I find this calming and it helps slow me down.
One word: meditation.
http://www.mro.org/zmm/meditation/
Hello,
I found your blog via a link from my friend’s blog, Just Babs. I had a strong deja-vu moment while reading this entry because, in a Toastmasters meeting that I attended last week, a guy gave a speech on a book called In Praise Of Slow. And that speech totally resonated with me. Pretty cool.
It’s one word and three syllables.