A person without any stress on them is a person pushing up daisies, has been said to me by the early instructors in my life. These are highly competitive folks, considered financially successful and of high academic and business achievement… but not people who can be still therefore not people who are happy with their values and being, but in a state of need. Lack is where need comes from. We are all human, we all exist, we all chose what we value when we decide to and have the brilliant conscious ability to create thoughts and decide how we want to feel. Gratitude is the real goal, not stimulation or consumption. Being endlessly competitive and hungry is insatiable and feels not good but rushed. Excitement without a pause to enjoy is not happiness but living in a flurry.
I feel that this state of mind is survival based but not civilized nor content. Rather it is pursuing blasé and contradictory. To always need a new thing means not being grateful or happy with what one has, found, or created. So what was the point of the flurry and rush? The alternative method to living in stress fueled mindset while still being active is creating and trusting will. The alternative to constantly seeking stimulation outside the self is to create satisfaction inside the self. This means planning actions and knowing to measured assuredness they will be good. Living otherwise is being actively ignorant since one doesn’t figure the effects of their motions but lives in blind swing and wonder as to whats next.
Trust is a weird thing to cultivate. For if one needs to cultivate it, then it has been lost. If one doesn’t need to cultivate it, they already have it. Understanding something often happens better if lost for just like finding the brink, one has to go too far to know where something ends and begins. I say this to encourage accurately those who need to cultivate it and remind their loss is actually a gain when used one way instead of a deprecating slight in perspective. The fear of judgment without understanding the true danger is where trust becomes lost. So, measure the pain of any judgment and look at the loss and merit in key-point. Lose the drama and examine cause effect of things. Trust is the comfortability in that and the decision to be happy that one can do so. Create a comfort in that action by doing it and allowing the rambunctious monkey mind that all humans have, the mind that creates drama and stress and excitement, to touch it and be it’s friend. Repetition and identifying that action as proper with one’s subjective and free artistic mind, which is also one’s heart. Love the stressed parts where trust has been blacklisted until those hurt and worried parts of one’s mind and soul feel compassion and comforted. Then stretch out and exercise one’s trust, knowing in measured and thought out certainty that they are stable and correct in said trust.
