feeling smothered or overwhelmed?

If you're feeling smothered and overwhelmed today, here's a little experiment to try.

Find the most pressing thing that you *need* to happen next to make everything ok. Something you really believe in. Relationship , money, personal problem - whatever is front and center, that you really believe you have the answer for.

Now, ready? Drop it.

I don't mean forget about it. Or that it's not important, or that it doesn't deserve care and attention.

Instead of hoping with your whole being for something specific to happen, trust that Life (aka Spirit, god, God) will get you where you need to go when you need to get there. Hint: it's often not when or where you believed, but in hindsight is always more complete and fulfilling.

You know that feeling when you are trying *really* hard to float in a pool and your legs keep sinking - then you relax accidentally for a second and you find yourself completely supported - that's what we're talking about here. (Not the chlorine count or salinity, the being-supported-by-a-something-bigger-and-better-suited-for-it than you are)

In my own experience, the outcome of the experiment is counter-intuitive. The less you try and force things to *your* believed-best-outcome, the better they generally turn out. And interestingly, it doesn't seem to encourage a laissez-faire attitude. The more you get your self out of the equation, the more efficient the equation becomes, and the more stuff seems to happen.

Case in point - you didn't start off your feed-read or doom-scrolling expecting to find Jerry trying to wax philosophic - and you definitely didn't expect to find a link to a five minute exercise that might help you feel genuinely better, but Life sometimes has its own agenda.

https://www.heartmath.org/resources/heartmath-tools/quick-coherence-technique-for-adults/