Life is soooo busy! Busy, busy, busy. With work, our love lives or endlessly searching for one, family/friend obligations, kids and/or hobbies, and any number of other commitments, our schedules are chock a block full. If we do have a moment to spare, we pull out the device and creep on Facebook, Pinterest and the like, or we start texting and/or emailing. Is it just me, or is this lifestyle heading in a clinical direction? Is this non-stop activity bringing more happiness, fun, joy, abundance or anything of the sort? Personally, I'm not feeling it. Stress, exhaustion, depression and illness are at an all time high. We want to be happier and having more fun, right? So, what is this all about and what are we to do?
A great therapist or life coach might suggest that being busy is just another form of addiction. Filling every moment of every day may be another form of avoidance. If our brains are kept busy, there's no time to consider how our lives are going, how our relationship is going, how we're actually feeling. In addiction counselling, it is said that the addict is an avoidance of deep and profound pain. Feeling means admitting to some things and even scarier than having to accept certain truths, we might have to consider making big changes. Why is it that change is so frightening? But even thinking about leaving a marriage, or safe career can be a huge source of panic and trauma... and so any form of avoidance feels immediately better than that. Here's the rub though - if we don't stop for a moment and feel what we're feeling, life will just happen to us... and this is so much worse. Making a brave and courageous choice and planning a change is a lot easier than life just crashing on your head unexpectedly one day. I'm speaking from experience here.... just sayin';)
Blessings,
Chatgirl
No comments:
Post a Comment