Are You Busy or Do You Have A Lot On?

It was Michael Neill who first raised my awareness to this distinction. Have a read and see what occurs to you.

A couple of people in my life this week have been in touch about feeling stressed and anxious even though they don’t have a lot on. And then of course there are times when we feel stressed when we do have a lot on. Consider that ‘stress’ is an exaggerated form of ‘busy’, and that busy feelings are a reflection of a busy mind, not of a busy life.

Have you ever had a situation where you felt so busy, frantic busy? But then something shifted and you realised that you didn’t actually have that much to do and you just got it done; one thing at a time?

And have you had a situation where you were powering through mountains of work with ease like a work-eating-demon but without any sense of being busy?

So being busy and having a lot on are not bedfellows. One isn’t causal to the other. It just so happens that sometimes we have a lot on AND feel busy at the same time.

Given it’s the frantic busy feeling we tend not to want, and therefore try to get rid of, what’s going on with that.

In your life, when you’ve been happy or sad, loving or mad, clear or confused did you ‘make’ any of those feelings appear?

Maybe you’re pointing outside of yourself right now saying they made me mad, they made me happy, that plan gave me clarity, the gift gave me joy.

But when has the apparently same behavior from someone or something not made you mad, or not made you happy, and when has the same plan looked daunting or a gift seemed meaningless?

So if those ‘things’ can’t have caused your feeling state, did you do it? Did ‘you’ make those feelings appear?

Now think about when those feelings disappeared, did you make that happen?

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