Showing posts with label meditate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meditate. Show all posts

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Thursday Time Machine: Learn to be Still

I have decided to devote Thursdays to advice that I would give to a younger me if I could go back in time.

Today my advice: Learn to be Still.

My whole life I have not been real good at being still. Now please understand that being still is COMPLETELY different than being lazy.

I will just tell you right now (and my wife can probably attest to the fact) that though I learned a good work ethic growing up I still have a firm grasp on how to be lazy. But when I say learning to be still I mean something else.

Most of my life has been lived as a vagabond, a rambling man.

I have lived in 9 different states (California, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, Florida, and Missouri) and I wasn't even a military kid; we just moved often.

But beyond physically moving to different houses in different parts of the country I have never been really good at being still in my mind.