4 ways to achieve stillness among fuss

Great stillness comes from great practice.  Photo by Eric Prouzet on Unsplash

It is hard to stay calm when all about you, as a great poem suggests, are losing their heads, and blaming things on you.

However, it is a key skill, which needs a lot of practice, and some clever thinking, to achieve.

Here are some tips, if you happen to want to train yourself to be still in among other people’s fuss.

ONE – STOP NEEDING OTHER PEOPLE’S APPROVAL

If you have been depending on external approval like a drug, then you will continue to work hard to obtain it.  The trouble is, in a crisis, different people want different things, and so you will find it impossible to please everyone.  It might have been easy at school, where there was a clear scoring system for merit.  But when your environment goes out of control, coherent scoring systems…