How to stop being in a rush.
Take a break from time to time.
Be aware of how I feel and let myself feel hurried and worried.
But return to my breath.
Focus on my breath.
Acknowledge my hurrying and worrying.
Then stop, take a break.
Stop acting on this impulsivity.
Stop practicing this impulsive behaviour.
Stop,look and listen.
Perhaps journal about it.
Let this state of mind past.
Notice how worked up I got.
Let myself rest and relax.
Do my best and do no harm to myself or others.
Why not examine our lives for holes?
If you have ever gone down the YouTube rabbit hole, you know what I mean.
Nothing wrong with YouTube or other users.
It is just the hole I find myself in from time to time.
I get stuck: depressed and tired, angry, obsessed, addicted and lost!
Getting to know myself is the solution.
Awareness is key, but the truth can be more painful than I am prepared to live with on this or any occasion.
Sometimes it is good enough to know I am in a hole.
Sometime I need to stop look and listen.
Maybe it is time to turn off YouTube and go to bed.
What other holes am I stuck in at the moment?
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“If” by Rudyard Kipling sounds like a stoic but to my mind, Epictetus is the stoic and may just know how to live a happy/good life.
Many people may never get to the point of applying the good life to their way of being because it is difficult to learn how to apply these principles when you don’t have a teacher who embodies them.
Anyone of the top ten books above will introduce the best teacher to show you.
Epictetus shows us what is important through his actions: a slave who excelled at stoicism and as a teacher.
In old age, he created a family through the need to look after an older boy. He probably enlisted a servicewoman to help him look after the child.
Listen to what he has to offer, his wisdom is a primer for a happy life and then some.
We age, we change, as we grow older, as we loose more control over our mind and body.
We get ill. We catch colds, viruses. Flus, diseases like cancer, our immune system begins to fail.
We slow down, we eat less, we sleep less, we have lesser ability to live.
I am learning to accept all the above and more.
I do my best each day and do no harm.
The practice of living a good life is simply doing no harm and striving to learn to do this in all your affairs.
But a rational look at it is a good guide for some.
There are many routines to living a good life.
They all involve practicing the basic living lifestyle that promotes health and all the forms that entails.
A blog and a journal is a good habit to maintain a record and place to sort out day to day problems, solutions and even goals and objectives.
There is no need for perfection, but an aim towards it will avail itself on the regular basis.
A desire or a passion will show itself to the practitioner over time.
Philosophy is a way of being guided to live a good life.
Contemplate all the above and throw in your own life experience.
It would be a tribute to being true to the principles, actions, and beliefs and to a very rich (well balanced) lifestyle.
Yes, I will do my best.
Yes I will use the premise: proper use of impressions.
And yes, I will do no harm.
Imagine, you doing the same.
And, imagine everyone else doing the same.
The Future is doing its best, using the proper use of impressions and doing no harm.
How much do you earn when you follow this method?
Is it of any worth?
Life is worth it, why not a good life?
I am grateful to practice every day.
Living is doing, and doing may make sense out of the day.
What a routine: waking up to one, working through one, being with one, seeing one and so on , ad infinitum.
Philosophy is relating to common sense and doing it for the sake of itself and to produce more of it.
A bit like that snake that eats itself but being able to keep the malevolence out of the way.
Maybe that is the best way to treat it….
Life is important and the only time to live.
But death is coming and it happens every day.
Lots of books about it.
Lots of philosophy about it.
But it is important to make the experience be your own way of living each day.
Some say, each day is a blessing,
and philosophy tends to say an awful lot about life to express a simple way to live each day.
Most of us are still too full of ourselves to truly live a simple life.
Maybe that is the hook needed to persuade the majority of people to slow down a little and maybe even live a little,
Some phrase it like ‘The Joy Still Felt’, (an autobiography by Isaac Asimov) or living the simple life.
Start out this way, do it each day, do more and more and grow a simple way to live until that is all you do.
Consider this challenge to engage the moment and live simply as often as you and others are able.
You can’t go wrong.
Just do it.
The habit is good and is its own reward.
Beware your passion or use a little common sense when you act on the following convictions.
Use a page worth on each journal entry.
The idea is to think about what you may want to practice.
Get up! Or get at it. Do it. Be here and do it now.
It is all about character and virtue or doing it right.
Epictetus, Discourses 1.2
Of one thing beware, O man: see what is the price at which you sell your will. If you do nothing else, do not sell your will cheap.
Work on your virtues or character. What do you value. What is important to you?
Assess the way you do your life. Think about your own stuff.
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I believe in doing my best each day.
I follow a daily routine that is beginning to improve.
It may be important to you.
Just give it a try.
Education is key.
Please watch the vid bellow.
It has been a debate that the oldest profession is living, I say that living and dying are one.
It may sound morbid to many that life could be reduced to such things but what is important to you?
The good in a habit, a practice and a ritual is not the routine, but the objective of the routine.
Consider a conversation with someone who may know a thing or two about living and dying each day.
Education is key,
Please listen to the audio book and it’s author’s summary bellow.