{"id":1069,"date":"2011-11-21T03:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lettinggo\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2011-11-19T10:58:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T15:58:53","slug":"rushing-is-punishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2011\/11\/rushing-is-punishing.html","title":{"rendered":"Rushing is Punishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question:<\/strong> Having to rush is punishing\u2026 is it also a sure sign that I’m “asleep”? How does rushing overtake me so easily? What can I do to deliberately slow down when the urge to hurry seems overwhelming?<\/p>\n

Answer:<\/strong> Every person knows what it feels like to be carried off by an anxious state, so you decide: when some anxiety comes along and takes over your life — are you an awake inwardly centered person — or are you an unconscious outwardly driven man or woman? Which are you? That you\u2019re outwardly directed is pretty obvious. Why? Because that anxious state could not exist without your false belief that who you are — your well-being — is connected to something happening exterior to yourself. And now this mistaken idea is driving you, compelling you to get this thing fixed or that situation resolved right now<\/em>, because once you have, you\u2019ll be back in a peaceful place. As long as you take yourself as someone who has something to lose because of your identification with any temporary exterior condition or circumstance, you will remain someone subject to every outer condition.<\/p>\n

By deliberately slowing yourself down when everything in you seems to be screaming \u201cRush,\u201d you will become inwardly awake. You\u2019ll become conscious of yourself in a new way. For the first time you\u2019ll understand that these anxiety attacks have nothing to do with what didn\u2019t get done, or with what \u201cmight happen,\u201d but that their painful place dwells within a belief-packed self you\u2019re living from that\u2019s convinced if you don\u2019t answer the situation it<\/em> says has caused your anxiety, you\u2019ll end up losing something valuable. This new kind of prayer-in-action changes your perception of yourself by turning your attention around to where the real problem, and the real solution, exists: within you<\/em>. This simple but powerful prayer will help you make the transforming transition to find your life inside of you instead of forever looking for a way to fix it by struggling outside of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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