Everything has a way of coming to equilibrium.

Equilibrium is a natural state. Sometimes it feels like that isn’t true. That things are in a runaway upward, or usually downward, trajectory. But if you take out all of the outside influences, you stop trying so hard, and you give things time, they do naturally come to equilibrium.

You don’t have control over where that equilibrium state is.

You don’t have control. You can stop, though, and just be.

Now, I can think of all sorts of scenarios where this doesn’t sound good:

• Maybe you are trying to train to run a marathon…if you stop trying, you won’t be able to do it.
• Maybe you are trying to lose weight…if you stop trying, will it happen?
• Maybe you are wanting to write a book…if you stop trying, the book won’t write itself.

All of this is true, but also different than what I mean by equilibrium.

We humans spend a lot of time running away from things. We have invented all types of things to keep us constantly busy. We shop, we drink, we play video games, we watch shows, we eat, we work, we research…

How often do we just sit?

We can still go out and train for the marathon – exercise is a natural state for our bodies.

We can still lose weight. In fact, perhaps if we stop eating to avoid natural emotions, if we get comfortable just being rather than trying to run from yourselves, our bodies will come to an equilibrium point.

Allowing ourselves just to be is where we access the creativity and knowledge to write that book.

The point, though, is that we spend a lot of time swimming upstream, researching solutions, fighting against our natural emotions, solving, distracting, struggling, running away…we need to stop and be – even for five minutes a day. Then maybe five will become ten, then ten will become twenty.

Our bodies know what to do. We have the answers. Stop searching for them. Stop running from them. They are there.