We can become imbalanced - physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually - when we are striving to perform and to be productive. This striving is usually undergirded with a desire to be perfect, to be significant, to be needed, or whatever our inner motivation is to fulfill our self-worth.
In this episode we will identify something that we are putting much of our time, energy, mental capacity, and resources toward and determine if it is making us become out of balance, and determine if there is an inner motivation driving us. We will go through the be STILL process and release it by Settling our body, Tuning into our minds, Inhaling and exhaling it to release it from our thoughts, Letting go of the inner motivation in our hearts, and Listening to our soul as it connects to the divine.
The passage for Listen...
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful. Thomas Merton
