To do lists and feeling settled

So I’m writing out my to do list…and the surrounding pressure to get it all done begins to build.

I pause and feel the freedom of making a choice: today, each and every task that needs to be accomplished is as important as the next and I can do all that I need to do without feeling rushed, anxious, pressured or frustrated.

This simple assertion isn’t a weak plea or empty shot in the dark hope.

It’s a steadfast declaration of quality of character and disposition stemming from the simple truth that this moment is created and governed by the divine Mind, and right now, I am–we are all–expressions of divine Mind.  So right now, I have–we all have–the capacity to breathe, think, be, live, act with the qualities of that Mind.

I can be calm, free and unaffected by anxiousness not because I’m willing it but because I”m intending to embody my true nature today. It’s mine/yours/all of ours right to be calm, clear, patient, free from stress or any other derogatory quality. And again, not because we’re willing it but because we’re defending our inherent nature.

The pulls to fear, feel pressured, feel anxious are not originating in my thinking or yours and really have nothing to do with my thinking or yours….and I can and you can choose to not go there, not be affected, not give into the weight of rushing around feeling burdened, stressed or anxious.

Each moment holds the opportunity to decide how I am going to respond, live, be.

Each moment holds the opportunity to insist on hushing the pulls and willful pressures and calming taking apart each ‘thing’ insisting on my attention or yours and pulling apart what the ‘thing’ is really suggesting.

For example, that phrase ‘I need to run errands’ may well be true. But it also may well be something I’ve put on myself to ‘feel’ productive when I really don’t have any ‘errands’ to run.

But it’s deeper than that. And today, I’m simply suggesting to myself and to you…..choose to be conscious in the moment and ask yourself ‘why is this pull coming to me?’ ‘do I really need to do this? or is this just a suggesting obligating my sense of life purpose right now?’ Maybe I really do need to go get some more toilet paper or milk or dish soap. But maybe instead I need to keep still and pray or write or do whatever other task I ‘do’ to do my work.

This is a simple post today. But I’m grateful to pause, rethink the pull to ‘create’ a to do list, and just listen for and feel out what’s vital every single moment.

Today I am striving to see each moment as my office, my studio, my mental window in  which to work, create, look out at the vistas of beauty that is life. And I can choose and will choose how each moment can be a moment of beauty, freedom, liberty and not a burden-filled pressure-full mandate.

I work with this idea a ton: “Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true and you will brings these into your experience proportionably as to the occupancy of your thoughts.”

That’s a statement in the book I reference regularly–Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy.

Whether you are working toward a bunch of goals you outlined months ago or simply trying to fulfil tasks at hand, take this moment and make it a treasured gift because it is..and feel liberated in the simple fact that you get to choose how you are going to respond to this moment.

Respond with glee, grace, and joy. Feel peace. and til next post, be well and have fun! 🙂 Tre ~