Welcome to let it be easy with Susie Moore.

I want to share with you today something so utterly soothing that I practice whenever I feel

anxious, whenever I feel stress, whatever I feel that kind of wave of emotion come over me even if it's like

positive emotion but feels overwhelming. When I come back to this kind of very

soothing question I feel like I just come back to my center. That center that's always

available but that we often just tune out or don't pay attention to with our racing thoughts and go go

and hurry here and hurry here and

hurry there and where's my phone and my thousand tabs are open and my mind is

racing. This question will bring you back to your steady calm center whenever you needed to.

And I've actually heard this question twice. The first time was from Deepak Shobra, who asked it in front of an audience, and you could almost feel it was palpable the calm that just settled into the room.

You would think about it, if you're going to go and see a spiritual teacher talk, you think you're going to be calm, but but no people are rushing and they're sitting

and they're kind of loud and you hear some mobile phones in the background but

Doepak knew what to ask and the second time I heard it was from Byron Katie and I love both of these spiritual teachers

deeply and of course it's no surprise that they arrive at the same question. Maybe they phrase it slightly

differently, but this question is powerful. So much of our of our suffering, my

friend, is about needing something right feeling like we have

something to prove feeling like we don't have enough feeling like we are not enough

feeling like happiness is just around the corner.

Success, as we know, is a moving target.

We live our lives based on to-do lists.

I rarely encounter a very relaxed person in this world. Am I right? So they both come back to this

question especially if they're dealing with someone who was in the state of

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