There is a quiet inside. A peaceful state. A desirable inner climate. It is then shattered by turbulence from the outside world. Old responses make stabilizing inner structures crumble within me.
I stop. I pause. I reclaim my space. I reorganize. Peace is restored. This cycle, returning to peace from a shaken place, took years to occur in my distant past. Then it took months, then weeks, then days. Now it is within a moment that I can restore inner quiet and balance. Anxiety used to be the predominant state of my mind. Now it is a temporary, transitory and fleeting inner state. Peace has become the norm inside.
Negativity and depression were all I knew many years ago. I was not capable of thinking positively. All was darkness and sadness. Now, all of those years of negative self talk have been replaced by positivity. I’ve transformed dark thoughts into light. I gravitate towards forward looking wisdom. Quite simply, I think good thoughts. Sounds simple right? It wasn’t. But now it is.