The need to multitask

The need to multi-task; what a popular habit!  I am not sure about you but I have this habit of multitasking. It started with demands and expectations from my various roles and work and before I realized, it became a habit, a compulsion. To be honest, I have always taken pride in it. (What a kick it is to boast about getting everything"done", achieving things, in no time!) 

Last month, I got a wake up call when my health deteriorated making it difficult to even carry on with daily routine and simple tasks like pinching a pot at the pottery studio. I had to take a very painful decision to leave all the activities including my pottery course half way and take rest. For a restless soul like me, there can't be more severe punishment. Life has been bit more dervish since we shifted the house making me scatter in all possible directions.

It is interesting how we often find our truths in least expected spaces in the least imagined ways! I feel there is a lesson for me in this experience no matter how painful. Offlately, my focus has been "no agenda", relaxing completely, listening to my body, cater to its needs, pamper it and bring back rhythm of my life that has somewhere been lost in crazy pursuit of "achievements" whether personal or professional.  

Speed is a natural high and attempt to multitask is a modern way of life. Whether we call it sheer need of the day, compusion or unavoidable evil we all are paying price for it in some way or other. In the era of giving our brain's multitasking hot spots an appropriate workouts, there is nothing new about being pulled in zillion directions, with constant distractions and demands. The question is, how involved are we really in every task that we try to aaccomplish? No matter what all we do but what really matters is whatever we do, we really do it with 100% integrity and involvement. 

When I look back as the days wander off to eternity, I realize the burden of years passed by! These days, when I contemplate on a languid day, listening to music, reading books, mediatating, I realize how sometimes making simple choices are hardest things to achieve in life!

I am currently reading a book and a quote from the book sums up what I am going through:

"All pain is a reminder that we have strayed from the natural rhythms of life."
From "Path of practice", A woman's book of Ayurvedic healing by, Bri. Maya Tiwari  

I have not worked or achieved anything since last few days. My phones are mostly switched off and I have almost cut off from outside world to focus on my health and guess what? The earth has not stopped rotating around the Sun. Life has not stopped. I am still alive and much happier...note to self!