The slow and the fast

All journeys start the same. One foot in front of another. If you never move you never go anywhere. That much seems to be obvious but is it really? Hopefully most people know how to get what they want/need for their daily sustenance, to keep themselves with a roof over their head and food to sustain the physical body and a car for travel here and there.

Still a lot of people seem to chafe at the bit, so to speak, in terms of their daily needs. Why is that? There are innumerable books which tell you how to create wealth, millions of videos and podcast after podcast telling you what to do. Still, very few tell you about the best and fastest way to do anything. It is a matter of trial and error even with material things.

Why is this so? Well, if I take myself as an example, I think it is because of wrong thinking maybe even stinking thinking. What do I mean by this? You grow up and find the world isn’t as you first thought it to be and probably you got conditioned to how it is and you had to make allowances but it just didn’t seem to work. It is the thoughts that make the stinking thinking.

Who is doing the thinking – you are – as I was. Because some of the thoughts you had were correct and some weren’t and then with your emotions running riot, you created haphazardly, sometimes things worked out quite well and sometimes they didn’t. This is mainly because no one taught you how to think and no one told you how the world worked, you had to figure it out for yourself.

This is how it all seemed slow. When I was in my mid 20’s, I determined that since time was going too fast for my liking, I decided that I would try to slow it down. This, being a conscious decision on my part, worked quite well and life seemed to me to settle to a slower pace in my experience, until I was in my 50’s and then it seemed to speed up again.

I once again had to make a decision. Which I did. You can too, it isn’t all about me, it is about you. In what way do you think? Do your thoughts make sense or are they perhaps a bit crazy? If you slow your breathing, thoughts slow down. That is interesting and when it came to me, I started slow breathing and if there was a place of no breath or little breath I noticed that my thoughts were almost non-existent.

You can try this now! Breathing is there all the time for you to use. It doesn’t cost anything. It is just there. It does cost a little wear and tear I suppose internally but otherwise, it’s free. Who slows down enough to realise they can control their breath? If you breathe quickly you would find yourself getting anxious. On the contrary, if you slow your breathing down you feel calmer.

Breath is Life. It is all around and it is beautiful if you stop to take it in and just breathe.