Does stopping to smell the roses seem like a luxury you can ill afford? Often we feel overwhelmed with all that we have to do. There is a sense that, if anything, we need to speed up rather than slow down, much less stop, if we are to get it all done.
When we are overwhelmed, we are usually in the fight/flight/
freeze/faint mode in which our ability to think clearly is not fully available to us. We might be able to work harder, but it's unlikely we'll work smarter!
But if we can to stop and become more aware of the "roses," i.e., what is present for us right now, we have begun to calm our overwhelm and are able to think more clearly.
The following is a series of steps you might try in order to calm the overwhelm and become more present:
