There’s More to Life than Making it Go Faster

The little ant finding his way to the nectar ... slowly but surely

The key to balancing your desire to be at peace with your need to achieve, perform, and earn a living is in recognizing that there’s no such thing as stress; there are only people thinking stressful thoughts. It’s really simple as that. When you change the way you process the world, the world you’re processing changes.

Stress is an inside job. You can’t fill a container with it because tension isn’t a physical item or object. There isn’t some ‘thing’ that you can point to and say. There it is, that’s stress! It simply doesn’t exist in that form.

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Being out of balance on this stress measure results in being on of the millions of people requiring medication to manage the symptoms listed above. It means that you often feel exasperated because you never really enjoy the life you work so hard to achieve. You may frequently feel as if you’re running on an endless treadmill. All of the pressure of working and striving for many wordly rewards, yet at the same time there’s a feeling of going absolutely nowhere.

If this sounds familiar. it’s a signal to begin reconsidering ways of processing thoughts about your life and work, and start pursuing freedom from the symptoms of stress by becoming more balanced. Getting into balanced isn’t necessarily about changing your behavior. Certainly you can pursue stress-reducing activities such as meditation, excercise, walks along a beach, or whatever works for you. But if you continue to align yourself with achieving more, defeating the other guy, winning at all costs, and going faster because you believe that’s how to keep up, then you’re guaranteed to attract the vibrational equivalent of this thinking into your life – even if you do yogas and stand on your head chanting mantras everyday!

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Those are excerpts from Dr. Wayne W. Dyer book’s ‘Being in Balance’. I keep it on my office table and grab it whenever I have a few minutes break. Sometimes we need to be reminded ….. to live ourselves a normal life in this hectic world.

Happy Friday!

Love – Larra

Langit Ramadhan

Today, the third day of Ramadhan.

The title of my blog ‘Langit Ramadhan’ is in my language which means ‘Ramadhan Sky’. That’s how the sky looked like yesterday at 7.20 pm, 4 minutes before breaking fast. The bluish bit of the sky, the cloud and last trace of sunlight …. all composed into one …. become a language of the heart. I felt calm, yet nostalgic. I felt close, yet very far. I felt content, yet lonely.

At this time during Ramadhan, family will get together, food will be served on the table, everybody especially children will be eagerly waiting for the ‘Azan (call for prayer) to mark the break of fasting. The head of the family will recite the breaking fast ‘Doa and it will followed by a glass of hot/cold drink and ’Tamar (dates). Some will continue with normal meals while some will stop and pray ‘Maghrib (evening prayer) prayer and continue with meal after the prayer.

I guess, I must be lonely and missing breaking fast with my family and loved ones. I hope the day will come where I will have small family of my own to break fast. When that day arrived, it will be the most meaningful Ramadhan in my life. Until then, I’ll wait.