The Zone

When I am in the contemplative "zone" all my other worries, fears, anxieties are seen as so much inconsequential rubbish.  That place of deep rest just comes over me.  No method will take me there.  My job is just to show up and sit.  Suddenly, from time to time, I realize I am in the zone of deep rest.  I become aware of it.  It overwhelms all else I have been fretting about.  Other things and people in my life don't lose their importance.  Worrying about the rest of my life does lose importance.  As the day goes on and I find myself focused on some task, issue, and fretting, I try to recall the zone, just as a reminder that as the zone passed, so will this issue of which I am making such a big deal. People may be a big deal.  Our career may be a big deal.  But worrying about them, getting all bent out of shape about them is rubbish.  A difference is that my fretting will probably change nothing.  The zone will change me radically.  But I have to show up to the practice each day.