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Building Contentment in a Busy World
What makes people feel at peace?
Noisiness, busyness, and too-much-ness have been common themes among the dozens of people I have worked with during my time working as a professional counselor. People come into my office expressing that their bodies are too much, their minds are too much, their schedules are too much, their jobs, their partner, their country, etc.
Out of the too-much-ness is birthed this unending sense of anxiety, this feeling of stress that people can’t ever seem to shake. We could blame social media, relational obligations, toxic workplaces, genetics, trauma, or the state of the world for these feelings of anxiety. However, pointing a finger at the cause of the noise isn’t enough. My job is to offer a solution, some way to break free of the consistent stress and to build some peace.
My client’s experiences have got me thinking. What aspects of life contribute to a sense of contentment? What makes people truly feel at peace? What, if anything, cuts through the noise of the world and leaves us feeling okay? From here I have coined — what I have mentioned in several of my posts — the do-less-mindset.
If we are bogged down by perpetual feelings of being, doing, or experiencing too much, then doesn’t it make sense to simply do less? But this simple concept is not so…
