Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Chaotic lives and finding Serenity

So this morning I listened to a news reporter's story about a young single woman who didn't know how to find time in her day for herself and I wondered about all the people who don't take a moment in their daily lives to just stop and take a breath.

In our ever changing and chaotic world of constant inputs we really need to take a moment each and every day to look around us and find a moment of joy, a moment of peace and a moment of serenity.

One of my greatest joys is when there's an late afternoon rainstorm and I rush outside to see if I can find a rainbow and when I do, it's magical and it fills me with beauty, calmness and serenity.  Even if there's no rainbow, the smell of the earth after a rainstorm is also a calming factor.  It's wonderful to just stand in the middle of my street (I do watch for cars) and deep breath the scent of cleaner air.

Our world and our country are under-siege, we have mass shootings, hatred, racial inequality, economic divisions that are overwhelming, climate change that's reeking havoc on our world and 24/7 social media inputs that are not allowing us to find inner serenity.  We must find a way to not become a part of the toxic life that surrounds us.  We must find our inner-strength, our inner-peace and our inner-serenity to bring about change.

Let's start small.  Let's start with ourselves.

Look around your neighborhood, your home, your space and pick out one thing that brings you joy, brings you peace, brings you serenity and focus on that.  It doesn't take long, it can be as short as a few moments or as long as you need, but in that time you will become aware of your breath, aware of your heart rate and aware of the serenity that now fills you.

Let's try keep this moment of serenity throughout the entire day, throughout the entire week and throughout the years to come.

I need to believe that there is a way to bring serenity to our world and I truly want to work to be a part of it.

Find Your Serenity and Perhaps We Can Find a Way to Better Our World.

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