Someone wise once said that when he is hard pressed for time he spends twice as long meditating. That is good advice and a point worth remembering as I literally run from one thing to the next. I was up at 6am last Saturday after having worked until 10.15pm recording an audio book, which I did after filming a demo which meant that my alarm went at 6 in order to facilitate packing before getting a flight to NYC. I thought I was being generous with the time at 6am but it turned out that until 9am I actually was running through my house packing, dropping my car off at a friends nearby and generally multi tasking until I was calmly in my Uber on the way to LAX. It was manic and a as per usual day of recent months, or perhaps of recent years. My flight was delayed and for a time I had nothing to do-not wanting to start working on my laptop as when the plane took off would have to put it away again-so just sat there quietly looking at nothing in particular. It was actually extremely relaxing to be somewhere in a small space with nothing to do and to not be in control at all of the situation. I was forced to do nothing. Amazed that it took sitting stationary at LAX to have a moments peace I am now determined to work more moments of stillness into my days. No matter how busy I am. In fact the busier the stiller I endeavor to become. Watch this calm like space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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