Really .....

I was talking to someone yesterday who was feeling anxious.  We talked about how thoughts really are just thoughts and how we don't have to take them by the hand and run off in whichever direction they are taking us.  Especially when that direction is a well-worn route which we know will deliver us to nowhere good!  We talked about how mindful meditation can help us to recognise these thoughts for what they are, how we acknowledge them, label them as 'thinking' and let them fade into the background as we bring our awareness back to our focal point - usually the breath.  As our conversation continued it became clear that we are not our expectations or anyone else's expectations.  What we are is so much more and yet so much more simple and the best place to discover this is to go to the stillness within, the inner silence, the inner light.  We both felt more at peace following the conversation which inspired this poem .....