What is stress?
Stress is a tension
between this moment
and your mental image
of how this moment should be.
Stress is a narrow focus
on a mental list of 'things to do',
the imaginary burden of 'all those things
that haven't been done yet'.
Stress involves future thinking,
a forgetting of your true Ground -
this moment, here, now . . . .
When your focus shifts
from what is not present,
to what is present,
from 'lack'
to what is abundantly here
and instead of trying to complete
a list of a thousand things,
you simply do the next thing,
the one thing
that presents itself now,
with your full attention and passion and presence,
lists get completed effortlessly -
and even if they don't,
creative solutions are found,
where none existed before,
without stress,
without time.
~ Jeff Foster [Artwork by Evenliu]
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