Take the Time to Just Be
A traditional Japanese tea room is exceedingly simple, with a bare minimal of decoration, helping the participants of the tea ceremony to focus on just what is at hand. In other words, the room and the ceremony are made to help people just be.
I think there is great value in this being. Lately I’ve noticed myself getting more and more anxious, more and more worried that certain things wouldn’t go well, that things just weren’t good enough.
I was letting myself forget to appreciate the good that was already in my life; the things that were once a dream that are now a reality and how so much better my life has become.
My mind had wandered off to exist in some faraway place instead of just being in the moment.
I sometimes end up having the attitude that spending time doing absolutely nothing, or doing something just for leisure is a plain waste of time. But I’ve found great things to come out of taking time off to do nothing and be nothing. My mind clears, anxiety lifts and new ideas come.
Is it because the act of taking time off tells your mind that there is always more than enough time? That you are time-rich?
Whatever the case, I will be in a rustic little spot of Thailand come this time tomorrow, for the next few days. I found it thanks to a little online review, and I’m looking forward to the first trip I’m making where I’m going slightly off the beaten track.
See you soon, and I hope you take your time off to just be as well.
Photo by beggs.
Thank you for the article, Alvin. That’s beautiful.
Hi Alvin, just wanted to introduce my self. I think I found my way over here from Andrew Wee’s blog, but I could be wrong. I absolutely love what and how you wrote about this experience in Thailand. Very inspiring. I never even thought about what meditations could really do until I recently listen to the audio book of “Autobiography of a Yogi” which I really enjoyed. Thanks again for this post. I look forward to reading more in the future.
Thanks guys, I’m glad you found my post of value
I can’t wait to try Vipassana meditation myself. Meditation for me consists of me doing Yoga for twenty minutes then Shavasana for ten. I need to step up my meditation to a new level.
Thanks for the push!
Are you still anticipating in Vipassana every now and then? I do it everyday now, makes my life much smoother than before. Glad to see people who actually care for the goods of others