My challenge .. Day 6: How to be Calm in a Busy World? I was reading a n-tv interview with Haemin Sunim. Haemin is Zen-monk and he wrote the book “The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to be Calm in a Busy World”. It is known, that we are very busy and slow down can help us to solve many problems. He said, it helps the wisdom to come out. We get good ideas. Many people know, slow down is helpful, but they don’t know how can they change that. His suggestion are 4 things: 1. If you have 10 seconds, then smile. Our heart rate will be slower, our muscles of face will be relaxed, we will connect with other people around us. 2. If you have 1 minute, breathe deeply. We will get contact with our body and we will be relaxed. When we are relaxed, we could better see what we can do as our next step. 3. When you come home to your children, try to walk 15 minutes. It helps to be relaxed, it changes our mood. Before we take care of our family or other people, we should care of ourselves. Otherwise we have the feeling, we are controlled of other. 4. Write three things for which you are grateful. When we do this for one month, we will look for something for what we are grateful. His suggestion sounds very simple and wise. Let’s get started with a smile. We need only 10 seconds. ;-) About unhappiness, he said we are unhappy about things which we can’t change. People try to control other people, they want to change them. They want to change old habits. We should learn to accept the habits of other people and to change our habits. When we are more self-confident and more careful, we will find the problems and the solutions. The basis of many problems are thoughts and doubts. We can stop this carousel of thoughts with breathing and slow down. I think, it is true and it is the right way to a peaceful and careful life.