A Place of Rest.

Marsha at Meow Wolf - Denver, CO

Fear misshapes everything. Doug Myerscough has written a calming antidote for us, and I share it with you here.

“I want to speak quietly for a moment, because quiet is in short supply.

I can feel the fear moving through people — not as panic, not as hysteria, but as something thinner and more dangerous: a steady pressure, repeated often enough that it begins to feel like certainty. Very intelligent minds, turning the same thought over and over, until the thought begins to feel like the world itself.

This does not mean you are wrong.

It does not mean you are weak.

It means you are human, living inside a time that keeps asking your nervous system to do more than it was built to do.


Nothing has happened in the last few hours that requires your life to shrink.

Nothing has crossed some invisible line while you were looking away.

History does not usually announce itself by whispering only to the anxious.


Pause here, if you can.

Notice where you are sitting.

Feel the ordinary weight of the day — the floor beneath you, the light in the room, the body you are still inhabiting.


Fear has a way of pulling the future forward, laying it across the present like a shadow, until it becomes hard to tell what is happening now from what might happen later. But these are not the same thing, no matter how insistently they blur.

You are not required to solve what comes next.

You are not responsible for carrying the whole moment.

You are not responsible for stopping the machine. You are responsible for reducing its surface area in the lives you can touch.

Today is enough.


It is enough to eat something.

Enough to step outside, even briefly.

Enough to speak to one person in a voice that remembers warmth.


Vigilance does not have to feel like terror.

Awareness does not have to cost you your ability to live.


If your mind feels frayed at the edges, it is not because you are failing — it is because you care, and care, under repetition, can exhaust itself. There is no virtue in that exhaustion. There is no moral requirement to remain braced every hour of the day.


You are allowed to rest your attention.

You are allowed to turn the volume down.

You are allowed to keep your life intact.


Calm is not denial.

Calm is how we remain capable — of kindness, of judgment, of showing up tomorrow with ourselves still whole.


Nothing important will be lost if you step back for the rest of the day.

What matters most — your ability to remain present — is preserved that way.


We will take this as it comes.

Not all at once.

Not tonight.”

Written by Doug Myerscough


“Yet there will always be this place of rest to which you can return. And you will be more aware of this quiet center of the storm than all its raging activity. This quiet center, in which you do nothing, will remain with you, giving you rest in the midst of every busy doing on which you are sent. For from this center will you be directed how to use the body sinlessly. It is this center, from which the body is absent, that will keep it so in your awareness of it.”
A Course in Miracles T-18.VII.8:1-5

“This material world is even now becoming the arena for conflicting forces. On one side there will be discord and dismay; on the other side there will be Science and peace. The breaking up of material beliefs may seem to be famine and pestilence, want and woe, sin, sickness, and death, which assume new phases until their nothingness appears. These disturbances will continue until the end of error, when all discord will be swallowed up in spiritual Truth.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 96:12-20