When you don’t know what to do … Be Still

There is something that I had to learn (or better) to relearn to do in the last couple of years. Being still.

I am prone to have a busy mind and to always find something to do, but with years passing I experienced how taxing it was for my body. It can lead to you to always feeling depleted. 

As kids, we tend to have have this amazing ability of putting pause or simply shutting down. It’s a super power, really. As we grow the blank spaces are filled with things we need to do or things we forgot to do, or even worse; things we have done but for some reason we are reliving. I can’t emphasize how much that consumes us. I am of the opinion today’s society encourages and celebrates this pattern. Sadly, the truth is that this is killing us.

Even so, after reaching an extreme, that my mind and body relearned to do, and I would like to highlight the particular situations where this came in hand. I am not talking about meditation and mindfulness. Do you know the feeling of not knowing what to do? I know that per day we make a lot of decisions, but sometimes we experience days when we need to make a decision but we honestly feel sooooo lost. We tend to feel the obligation of sharing a decision right away or the pressure of not taking too much time deciding. I believe that’s the worst that we can do.

I relearned that by being still, the answers will come to us, in the most natural way, and most of the times when we least expect. The best part is the conviction that we experience by following this natural way. It’s not about leaving the decision to chance or waiting for someone else to make it for us. It’s trust our gut and knowing that whenever you will know the answer, you’ll know the answer.

Adopting this behaviour bought so much peace at so many levels. I honestly, believe that everyone has this ability is truly learns to trust themselves. It’s a step by step process, but it’s reconnecting with what any living being does already in a natural way. You only need to find you natural way again!