Let me show you where calm isn't because then you will find it yourself. Because calm isn't in having some time to yourself, in the run you do every day or in the bar of chocolate or the glass of wine. It also isn't in the massage, the meditation or the walk. It isn't even in the yoga class! 

I know that's the time you feel it most but maybe you have touched it at other times. In a moment of crisis, perhaps. When you are truly present and just know what to do. You see, it is a trick of thought and consciousness which makes it look like calm is being brought to you from outside. Because in those moments above, you have less thought and just for a moment you connect to what is inside. 

And what is inside is calm which is always there and always waiting to be seen. That's what you are made of and just knowing it is always there is so reassuring. Now you can start to notice it. And if you would like to see it more, you know where I am.

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