Why ease is anything but easy

Can you remember the last time you truly felt at ease?

When you weren't rushing around?  

When you looked out of the window, before looking at your phone?

When you gave your full attention to just one person or task at a time?

If I could choose one thing to gift myself on a moment by moment, day by day basis it would be ease.

Why?

Because when I feel at ease life becomes richer, fuller, funnier.

I laugh more.

I feel more joy.

I'm able to think better and more clearly.

It doesn't mean my to-do list gets smaller or any challenges I face get easier but how I approach them does.

 When I'm at ease I have an inner state of calm that allows me to navigate life with more grace and wisdom. 

The challenge is, how do we cultivate ease when our work, colleagues and lives are full of urgency?

How can we be at ease when we’re surrounded by adrenaline, deadlines and an overwhelming and ever-growing to-do list?

My answer?

We have to choose to.

We have to consciously choose ease.

Even when it's not easy.

(Especially when it's not easy.)

We have to make being at ease a practice. 

Why?

Because the world outside isn't.

Our workplaces aren't.

But when we're at ease, the quality of everything we do improves.

We think better.

We're more creative.

More open.

More compassionate.

We're kinder to ourselves and others.

We can work out what's truly important and we make other people know they matter.