Seeking calm feels like a thing to do. There so many tools and techniques available to do that. I don't need to list them. But the thing is, you are calm. That is what you are made of. The seeking you are doing is covering that up. The searching is hiding present moment calm. It helps to know it is there. That it never, ever leaves you. When your noisy mind quietens it re-emerges. But your noisy mind just gets noisier when you are seeking calm.

You feelings are a beautiful update from your system. They let you know about your state of mind. Your state of mind created via thought in the moment. The thoughts that will pass if you let them. When you realise that the seeking of calm is creating the opposite, it suddenly makes less sense. Would you like to connect to your innate calm without all those tools and techniques?

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