In a recent conversation with a friend we wondered if we were doing 'enough'. We concluded that perhaps it was good enough to just 'be'. I remember that was what Patrick San Francesco would tell me when I asked him what else I should be doing.
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I thought about it and felt I said it from the space of -we make a difference to the world by just being ourselves actually (if we truly are being ourselves that is). To illustrate this point, I got this example of how a beautiful or good looking person needs to be be beautiful - there's nothing else he or she needs to do. By just being beautiful they are already making a difference by just being who they are.
Then, it sank into me. Perhaps I need to be more myself to make a difference and stop trying to be any 'more'. When we say we should do 'more' we need to be 'more of ourselves'. i closed my eyes and breathed and asked myself what it must feel like to be myself, to just be me so I can make the biggest difference to the world.
It did feel like some veil fell off. I could sense myself relaxing, my shoulders relaxing, my body relaxing, from the tension of not being myself. I was loose and just sat there, no thought of impressing any one, no self-image thoughts or behaviors, just me doing nothing.
I never realised how much I tensed up without realising. How on the edge I was.
Just being myself. Relaxed. Breathing. Doing nothing. Making a difference by being fully present and fully myself.
That's good energy. Calming energy. To be more me then. To be.
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