Dear Cali Chica:

I laughed as I read this: “too many weddings, too many cousins. Too much of Super Cali Chica. Too much too much!”- hilariously articulated, funny.

I am very familiar with the frenzy, mindful  of it every day. I was preparing breakfast this morning and twice it happened: I dropped a spoon and a spatula to the floor, how annoyed I got. The nature of the frenzy is such that in our minds we imagine things quickly and happening smoothly, and we are very impatient and agitated and annoyed when in real life things don’t happen as smoothly or as quickly as we imagine them.

To “Calm the frenzy” is almost excruciating, at the beginning at least. The brain doesn’t want to slow down, and it lets you know: I don’t like you slowing down! See how uncomfortable it is to slow down, so don’t ! Rush, rush, rush!

It takes intentional and uncomfortable, ongoing and long practice to change that frenzy baseline.

anita