Today my heart was pumping and I felt an adrenaline excitement about all the projects I had lined up for the day.  I also felt an overriding anxiousness.  I’ve been here before. 

I asked myself how I could get it all done and felt a slight tremor that was pushing me to get into action.  But instead, I sat and waited for that solid, centered base to operate from.  This is the difference for me now in my life. 

Everyday I start with a short meditation, even when my mind is racing.  I ask for peace and pace.  I know that either one will certainly bring the other.  It regulates my workload and let’s me focus on my “nothing is important” mantra that I repeat when I find I’m getting overly significant about what I’m doing and what I have to be doing. It’s one thing to be enthusiastic for the projects I’m doing, the people I’m working with, the ideas I want to manifest…it’s another thing to feel a drive that makes you forget to breathe, eat regularly and get up from your computer to stretch and get out in the day. 

My meditations are one way I center my day.  I begin them after I shower and change and before I have breakfast or do anything else. 

I’ve found that even one phone call or checking my emails starts a trail of to-do’s that makes it harder to get back to the first breath of morning stillness or even show up for the meditation at all.  I set a timer now to remind me to keep my computer time short throughout the day.   

What do you do to keep your peace and pace? 

Tags: downtime, meditation, pacing yourself, prioritizing

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