Invaded By Calm

I love this term, "Invaded By Calm."  The word invasion connotes something foreign or not normal to a place, an outsider.  For many of us, being anxious, restless and irritable seems to be such a norm, that calm is an invasion.  How sad that it has come to this.  I suffer the same invasion frequently when I sit and meditate.  Up until then I am often not even aware of how unsettled I am feeling.  But it is better to be invaded by calm, then to have no calm at all.