{"id":1816,"date":"2015-02-23T11:25:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T09:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fastlandstois.wordpress.com\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2015-02-23T11:25:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T09:25:03","slug":"the-art-of-acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/23\/the-art-of-acceptance\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of acceptance"},"content":{"rendered":"

What to do when life spins too quickly and it all seems as important as it could ever be?
\nThe response is of course to hit the brakes. Hard.
\nBut how do you do that exactly?
\nFor me it is all about acceptance.
\nAccepting that I cannot do it ALL.
\nAccepting that what is need<\/strong> to have and letting go of what is nice<\/strong> to have.
\nThe letting go bit took some guts and tears but is well worth it.
\nIt gives me eons of time to think about more pleasant things than what \u201cI have to do\u201d or what \u201cI need to do\u201d. Quite a few of my everyday musts has disappeared. Now that <\/strong>is magic.<\/p>\n

My new found focus is used to be more attentive to my children and to my spouse, to writing, to taking better care of my physical as well mental self. I am letting go of my near obsessive need to create things in favour of practicing the art of being still.
\nTry it. Sit still for 15 min and let your thoughts fly. See where they take you. The only rule is that they cannot touch on work. That\u2019s it. I find it very hard but giving. 15 min is a very<\/strong> long time when one is used to things moving at the speed of light. I get annoyed when people around me don\u2019t do things at the same speed or come to the same conclusions as I do as quickly. That doesn\u2019t mean I am smarter than the people around me, au contraire sometimes, it just means that I\u2019m in much more of a hurry to get to the next thing\u2026and then next\u2026without really being where I was.<\/p>\n

Accept that you are sitting where you are sitting. Reflect on how your body feels, how does your breathing feel and what do you feel about what you are doing? Your feeling reveals what kind of thoughts you are nurturing for the moment. This gives you a chance to choose what thoughts to think and thereby changing how you feel. I, for example, love thinking about things I am grateful for. It relaxes me and washes away worries and stress. So I sit there thinking about my awesome children, fab husband and my \u00a0kinda cool new lifestyle. How can I not<\/strong> feel happy then?
\nExactly, I can\u00b4t not feel happy (don\u2019t you just love the positive negation of that sentence?)<\/p>\n

I have water to drink and a backache to cure.
\nUntil later dear friends, until later.<\/p>\n

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