How many times have we made something into more than it should be? Overcomplicated things. Made it into a ginormous deal. Put pressure on ourselves to do “the thing” perfectly.
I was reminded of this crazy “thing” we do during a recent guided meditation where the instruction was just to sit. Just sit. Don’t make it into “a thing”. Don’t turn it into a big production, secretly thinking there is a way you need to exist that is better than the way you were existing before. Just be.
There is a shift into this subtle kind of “doing”. We are always trying to “do” and make things different or better. It’s like we don’t trust things to just be OK as they are without interfering with it all.
When you notice when you get into that thinking, smile. Breathe. Let “it” go. And just exist.
Waaaaaay easier said than done, I know! That is why I practice sitting every day. Just for a few minutes. I sit in silence (minus a purring cat, outdoor mowing and a babbling baby on the baby monitor…) and try to give myself a moment each day where I can just BE.
Reality is humming all around us, and we are part of that hum. That will never go away. There is always some thing simmering inside us. Some low level agenda, internal to-do list, ongoing dialouge. And that’s fine. That’s part of being human. We have things to do.
What would it be like to drop that “thing” just for a few minutes? It’s like we fear we may drop right out of existence if we don’t have a “thing” to hold us. But existence doesn’t depend on that thing or anyone’s thing. Meditation is a place where we practice trusting this. Just trust Being without the thing.