Finding Stillness: Resting at Home in the Middle of Chaos

Source https://zenhabits.net/still/

By Leo Babauta

There’s a part of us that wants to find peace from all the chaos in our lives, all the busyness and distractions and complication and stress and overwhelmingness of it all.

We want to get away from it all, or get control of everything and create order out of the mess. We want stillness, we want rest, we want peace.

But this kind of banishment of chaos and stress isn’t usually possible, unless you go into the mountains and live in a monastery. (Spoiler: You’ll find chaos there too.) So what can we do?

The answer is to find stillness and peace in the middle of chaos.

This is an advanced practice, and so if you’re new to meditation, I suggest starting with my beginner tips for mindfulness and then move on to my short ebook, the Zen Habits Beginner’s Guide to Mindfulness. But if you’ve meditated a bit, you’ll have the foundational skills for stillness in chaos practice.

In this post, I’m going to share a practice of resting at home, and then talk about how to use that in the middle of the chaos of our lives.

Resting at Home Meditation

Try this now, if you’re somewhere where you can sit in quiet (even on a train or bus) for a minute or two:

  1. Sit still, ideally in a position where you …

Source https://zenhabits.net/still/

By Leo Babauta

There’s a part of us that wants to find peace from all the chaos in our lives, all the busyness and distractions and complication and stress and overwhelmingness of it all.

We want to get away from it all, or get control of everything and create order out of the mess. We want stillness, we want rest, we want peace.

But this kind of banishment of chaos and stress isn’t usually possible, unless you go into the mountains and live in a monastery. (Spoiler: You’ll find chaos there too.) So what can we do?

The answer is to find stillness and peace in the middle of chaos.

This is an advanced practice, and so if you’re new to meditation, I suggest starting with my beginner tips for mindfulness and then move on to my short ebook, the Zen Habits Beginner’s Guide to Mindfulness. But if you’ve meditated a bit, you’ll have the foundational skills for stillness in chaos practice.

In this post, I’m going to share a practice of resting at home, and then talk about how to use that in the middle of the chaos of our lives.

Resting at Home Meditation

Try this now, if you’re somewhere where you can sit in quiet (even on a train or bus) for a minute or two:

  1. Sit still, ideally in a position where you …

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