Are you confused about calm? If you are I think you might not be the only one. In a networking meeting recently, I said I helped people to be calm and one of the other people in the zoom room said he did the opposite to me. Then he said that he helped people to be more excited, engaged and passionate. This isn't the first time I have heard this idea. That calm is the opposite to all sorts of other emotions. The idea that if you are calm, you are sat on the sofa totally chilled out. But what if you knew that calm could be there all the time? That you can be calm and engaged, calm and excited or passionate and even calm and anxious. Because calm is inside you, always there. You connect to it when you know that all feelings are okay. Every single one of them. Then you can be an upside down swan (explained in the podcast) and experience calm no matter what is going on in the outside world or inside you. 

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