Saturday, May 28, 2011

Paying Attention

When life gets busy, which seems to be the case for most people these days, it's easy to allow the small resentments and annoyances and general discomforts to go unnoticed. You may be aware of the disturbances at the time they occur but there may be other more pressing issues that take priority. That doesn't mean they're more important but rather that they appear more urgent. If this is a pattern in life, it's pretty easy to get caught up in it, especially since the tendency to get caught up in all kinds of urgency itself is really designed to avoid what's going on in the inner world in the first place.

Even though you may not be in the habit of addressing discomfort as it occurs, it is definitely helpful to take some time on a daily basis to check in to see if there are any residual disturbances that need your attention. If you don't take some time to deal with unresolved discomforts you will notice they seem to have a cumulative effect so that even the smallest of disturbances can upset the apple cart. The good news is that the beliefs that are being played out will likely be easier to spot because they tend to get more obvious when the effects are repetitive and the not as good news is you end up feeling a lot more stress and unhappiness. It all works out in the end but as a personal preference, I'd rather be in the flow than in the muck.

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