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"Stop Chasing. Start Being: A 5-Minute Reset to Come Back to Being!"

             

Welcome, friend. 

Before the first bird sang or the city stirred, your  consciousness slipped away—drifting for a few sacred hours into that nameless, formless space beyond thought and identity.

There were no alarms, no expectations—only the vast stillness of pure presence. Time unraveled. The ego dissolved. And what remained was the essence. Unshaped. Unbound. Whole.

Then, light crept in. It filtered through your window like gentle hands, summoning you back. Slowly, your awareness returned—like a diver rising through warm waters—until you settled once more into the flesh of your body. Eyes open, breath steady, you cross the threshold into wakefulness.

From the moment your feet touched the floor, the performance resumed. Familiar movements unfolded—roles slipped on like costumes. The choreography of doing had returned.

You moved through the motions like a dancer in a well-rehearsed routine: shower, brush, dress, a glance at the mirror—then the phone. The day stretched like a stage, and you stepped into the marketplace of modern life, where thoughts trade like currency and actions serve as proof of value.

You haggled with time. You traded energy for results. In the digital bazaar, you posted, clicked, and replied. You visited the tea house of opinions and sipped the bittersweet brew of news and noise. 

"You dined at the table of comparison, sampling the flavors of other people’s routines, then raised a glass of orchestrated illusion—each scroll a quiet toast to someone else’s highlight reel."

The hours unfurled like a scroll of obligations. You were the buyer and the seller, the actor and the stagehand, the mask and the one behind the mask.

 Every moment was filled with doing—not because you had to, but because you thought you must.

And now…

The curtain falls. The lights dim.

The stage is quiet. The audience has gone.

Now, finally, comes the moment between—that sacred crack in the stone wall of your schedule where the light of truth streams in.

A Glimpse Within:

Perhaps—just perhaps—doing is merely the shell, and being is the pearl within. Yet we spend our days chasing—goals, ambitions, people, and answers—believing the shell is the treasure when, all along, the true gem lies quietly inside.

Consider this: you, "the real you," have nothing to prove, nothing to achieve, and nowhere to go. You are not defined by your productivity, calendar, worries, or thoughts.

You are the space in which they all appear and disappear. You are awareness itself. Awareness never needs to chase anything because it already holds and is everything.

Practical Application: Coming Home to Being!

1. The Sacred Pause (5 minutes daily):

Create a sanctuary of stillness at the end of your day—or in the middle if you can. Sit or lie down. No phone, no music—just you and your breath. Close your eyes. Observe the thoughts passing like clouds without chasing or clinging.

2. Labeling Practice:

When you notice yourself in auto-doing mode, label it “doing.” Then gently ask, “Who is watching the doing?” This will draw your awareness back to being.

3. Nothing Time:

Schedule "nothing time." Set aside 15–30 minutes with no agenda, tasks, or space. Allow your breath to slow and deepen. Watch as your thoughts gently settle. Rest in the stillness. Let your awareness stretch wide and quiet. This isn’t laziness—it’s a return to your true essence. A sacred recharge of the self beneath the doing.

4. The Undo List:

Write an undo rather than a to-do list at the day’s end. “Undo the tension in my neck and shoulders.” “Undo the chase for approval.” “Undo the story of not enough.” These little rituals gently return you to the peace of presence.

You are not here to chase life. You are here to live it from the still center of your being.

The world will keep spinning. Let it. Tonight, let your consciousness be still, your awareness settle, and let yourself be.

Because, in the end, being is the most sacred thing you’ll ever do.

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