Feeling calm

Your body and mind have slowed down, and you can meet things without hurrying.

Where it sits on the wheel

Calm is in the middle ring, under Peaceful. Further out: still, relaxed and at ease.

Where in your body do you notice the calm most? Describe it in a few words.

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Old, quiet words about living simply, if you’d like to stay here a little longer.

Peaceful (one ring in)
Calm is mostly about pace: your body and mind slowing down. Peaceful is wider, a settled sense that nothing needs fixing for now.
Content (also under Peaceful)
Calm is about slowing down; content is about having enough. One is pace, the other is satisfaction.
Relieved (also under Peaceful)
Relieved follows a worry that has passed. Calm doesn’t need a worry first; it can be how the day began.
Still (further out)
Still is a deeper kind of calm, when even your thoughts seem to pause.
Relaxed (further out)
Relaxed is often felt in the body, as tension letting go. Calm includes your mind too.
At ease (further out)
At ease is about a place or company where you have nothing to prove. Calm can come anywhere, even alone.

Calm is one of the 104 words on the Slow Days feelings wheel, and the list of feelings has them all. The wheel isn’t a test or a diagnosis.