People complain of stress.
I am normally not experiencing stress, but the last few days I have been.
My response to them was tightening up, playing freecell, working more, or not working at all.
Today, at a connection call, stress came up and I asked: what causes stress? People said all kinds of things, circumstances, disease, etc…
I said: None of that. What causes stress is your resistance to life, to how it is.
Whatever you resist or ignore, like a little kid, will get your attention, whatever it takes. And it is going to cost you. Your freedom, your perspective, your peace of mind.
The best way I can illustrate this is with three pictures:
Picture one: you are attending (lovingly) the “issue” and you are able to do anything, while you never ignore the “issue”, lovingly whisper to it “I am not going anywhere…”