Calmer and Karma

I have become comfortably numb. Yes- both in a state of serene tranquility and thankfully resting in this bliss. I wonder if this is my good karma kicking in? Is it a bit like sipping delicious chilled wine, and then it hitting the pain spot on time-delay? I'm really not that sure, but I can tell you why I'm asking.

I've sailed through what would normally have been a nerve-shredding day, yet felt in a zone of calm ability. What a revelation. And so perscription and chemical-free. I've meet with a financial exec put in charge of an important part of my business, negotiated a tricky situation with a printer handling our schedule-busting delays and technical glitches, and talked to my big financial man, all without perceptibly breaking physical or emotional sweat.

And to rate even more highly on the super-Buddha Belle scale, I've done all this whilst looking after a small, hot and bored child on half term. Pluurslease...am I making all this seem too easy?

Yes so ok I did cheat a bit. I 'fess up. I did have my gorgeous jade green Buddha beads curled up protectively in my linen skirt pocket all the while. It was a soothing distraction, and yes they did make me breathe and mentally chant.

I've also had a good run of a week with my morning and evening chanting. I feel my spiritual muscles are beginning to hone nicely. There's probably a hint of defintion on my karmic self. And i can safely say I'm beginning to feel capable of dealing with my angst with an almost abstracted business best practice. Now there's a management strategy that's not been marketed to the max - "Buddhism in the workplace". Could it work as a new 10-step plan for ultimate business performance, available for free trial on video, dvd and online perhaps? All profits would need to be donated to charity, as my only stipulation.

I'm joking of course. But seriously, I can only hope my just-landed state of grace persists. Good karma for a good girl. Maybe my fundementally fresh and extraordinary new approach, my new Karma if you will, is seeping through somehow to how I act and talk? Am I in fact walking the Buddha walk? What would the Big Buddha boys say about karma benefitting our everyday actions. Well here's a flavour - "We made what we are and experience now, and we are at this moment making what we will be and experience in the future. That is karma. So to change karma means to change our lives right now; that is, the way we think, speak and do things."

Let's wait and see what's next for new and improved belle.