Bill Cosby

No, I didn't see him. He came into the conversation during our program yesterday. He was quoted as saying, "I wear a sweater because my mother is cold."

Think about that. I had to. What do you do because of someone else's discomfort? We often rush in to "help" when no help was asked for. We try to "fix" when no fix was looked for. Even simple little examples like you are sitting at a table with a group of people. Handouts have gone around. The person sitting to your side did not get any. In your mind imagine this scenario. Do you have some anxiety around that? Do you try to get the facilitator's attention to "help" correct the situation?

We are learning about being a non anxious presence. Notice the anxiety when it comes up. Managing our own anxiety helps us to be better people. The person beside you didn't ask for you to take care of them. We might see it as being a "good" person to help. That is us living from our B.S. Our Belief System. It's also our projecting that the person beside us must be feeling left out and we better help them feel better. Can you hear the presumption and a bit of craziness in that?

Just for today notice your own anxiety. Sit with it and root out its cause and work at healing that. And laugh at yourself... we all, I think, take life so very seriously.

Pic.. Beautiful condos next to our hotel. Notice the seagulls in the water between them.. they bath and squawk there a lot during the day. What does our squawking sound like when we are feeling anxious?