Mona Sharma explores why we stay busy and what we're avoiding. Constant activity keeps us from confronting deeper issues. True peace comes from settling into the space of space, recognizing we have time and don't need to rush.
To settle into the space of space. Like, to settle into the idea that we have time. Settle into the idea that we don't have to go from thing to thing to thing, and that the busyness is sometimes a way to hide or step away from what you actually have to come to terms with.
Yeah, there was an article written about that too.
Like, what's.
The new emotion that we all have? How are you? Busy. Right. How are you busy?
It's so true. I'm really trying to get out of saying that.
I know. It's so true. Yeah, right. And we're giving each other permission to just be busy. Well, busy to me. My shoulders are up at my ears. My everything's contracted. My digestion shut down. Everything's kind of sore. I'm not sleeping well. I'm not, you know, I'm eating all the time. So it's really addressing that. Maybe that's a good question for your audience, is what are the practices that you have every single day that are training your nervous system to be in this hypervigilant busy state?