Check up.

Happy Tuesday.
What a world wind it's been over the last short while. I'm a full-time musician (for those of you that didn't know that) and I've been touring in my home province of Newfoundland for the last couple of weeks. I'm twelve weeks into this blog now and this close to Christmas is a great time for a check up.

While I was out on the road, I realized how easy it is to slip into the old ways. The pressure of getting where you're going and of the people around you who may be having a bad day. At this time of year everyone seems to be wondering where everyone is coming from. Don't you find that, no matter how many people you thought lived in your town or city, there seems to be twice as many of them at this time of year? :)

The concept of a check up was really strong in me as I sat down to write this post this morning. For those of you that have been here for the whole 12 weeks, thank you very much. I'd love to hear from you marxstuff@gmail.com I'd like to know of the struggles and triumphs you have had as a result of the concepts here. It would be very beneficial to me. I won't share them unless you want me to and even then I might not! :)

There can be great conflict within us when we are trying to do something more for ourselves. Peace is one of the most miraculous things. Achieving it sometimes is like moving as fast as you possibly can in an attempt to arrive at stillness. It simply sits there, content in itself, waiting for you to join. All the while, it sits there in a world that didn't get the memo. Because peace is so self contained, it almost seems to taunt you. Peace doesn't need you, it's perfectly peaceful after all. You, on the other hand, crave peace. Whether you know it or not, it's why there is tension when things are going some way other than the way you want them. It is why you want to get 'back' to how it was before. Ever notice how peace always seems to be the way things were just before you got yourself in this non peaceful place? If you really check in with yourself, you will realize that peace is a little more peaceful after
you have been in a place of struggle...for another blog perhaps...

For now, make sure you check in with yourself. Not just every 12 weeks of course...every single day. Not just every day of course, but every now and then throughout the day. Feel the tension in your body inform your thoughts...feel your thoughts inform the body. Breathe and let go. Smile and say "I knew that'... start again because the more often you start, the less often you have to... one foot after the other into the life you've been so profoundly blessed to live.

11 days until Christmas. Perhaps you could use peace now more than ever...perhaps the world could use some more peaceful people now more than ever... either way, it can only be achieved one place...within you.
Have a great week....