In the rush of our daily lives it is easy to forget something.

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Something very important.

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That affects our lives in a very fundamental way.

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Yet it is so easy to lose in the face of our responsibilities.

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For when our attention is often too externally focused, we can forget the internal.

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And to ignore our own needs.

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Even the most important need we have.

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Which is to take time for ourselves.

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To take a moment and pause.

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And to breathe.

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To take a few minutes and unwind from the tension of the day.

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We usually do not realize how important it truly is to take a moment to sit and be still.

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Stopping our activity for a few minutes.

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Centering ourselves and being quiet.

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Cutting out the input of screens, phones, and other people.

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Making some space in our busy, hectic lives to spend some time with ourselves.

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This is no small thing.

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For how can we know how we really feel if we do not give ourselves a moment to sit and feel?

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Indeed, one of the most important things for us to do is to know how we truly feel about something.

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About everything.

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Even about our lives.

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When we live our life just rushing from one thing to another without giving ourselves space to feel, we can miss what is important to us.

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To feel the love we have.

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And sink into that connection.

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Or notice the pain we carry.

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And how that pain affects us throughout the day.

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There is a wide range of feelings and emotions that are right there under the surface waiting to come out.

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We need only to give it some space and time to bubble up from the unconscious.

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Yet we rush around from work to home to friends to family to chores to responsibilities without taking a moment to just feel where we are at.

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To notice the way we are carrying ourselves.

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Both internally and externally.

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Taking a few precious moments to just sit and do nothing can be the most fruitful thing we do all day.

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So in the midst of all our doings in our busy days, perhaps we can strive to just "be" for a few moments and see how that feels?

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Do you take time in your life to just be?

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What can you do to create some space and have a practice of just being still?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour