Present Moment, Beautiful Moment: Moments Peace Daily Inspiration #11

Moment’s Peace Daily Inspiration #11 Present Moment, Beautiful Moment

How might you spend twenty minutes during your day? Sitting in traffic. Waiting for your dinner to cook. Listening to a co-worker expand on an idea. Reading a bedtime story to your child. Running a meeting. Folding laundry. Showering, dressing. As mothers, life might find us doing any of these activities. In fact, chances are we are doing more than one of them at the same time, hurrying, rushing.

Life as a mother is busy whether we work in or outside the home. And if we allow this fragmented feeling to take hold of us, everything suffers: our health, our happiness, the natural joy of being a mom. By trying to be everything to everybody all of the time—eventually something’s got to give. Often it’s an illness, crisis, depression, or reaching a “breaking point” that forces us to surrender.

By living in a perpetual state of “doing” we create two problems, each of which leaves us with that familiar, nauseating “I can’t do it all!” feeling. Trying to do it all, at the same time, creates a sense of constant chaos in our lives and for those around us. And the effects are even more far-reaching. This sort of crazed multi-tasking also means that we are not fully aware as we go through our days.

Instead of feeling calm and powerful we only react to the world, dizzily spinning around in a revolving door instead of making our own choices and creating our own reality. The good news is that each of us holds the possibility within us that any moment can become a peaceful moment.

Excerpt from A Moment’s Peace : A Mom’s Guide to Creating Calm Amidst Chaos