What's Your Meditation?

As much as I NEED to meditate these days, I find it hard. My anxiety makes it hard to slow down. I feel like the weight of the world is on my shoulders, some days, and the only way to forget is to organize a drawer or go for a walk. Something in my being will not let me sit in complete silence with my monkey mind for very long. I do know that that is the exact thing that will get my mind to slow down so I do TRY and make time for it but it doesn't always happen.

I only go to the grocery store once a week now and that's complete torture. To save on dish tabs, I have taken to doing the dishes daily. Not every meal but one. Otherwise we are running the dishwasher every night. I have found over the last few weeks that I like this time. I grew up washing dishes every night and I didn't like it. Probably because I always had somewhere else I wanted to be or wanted to do. Now, I have all the time in the world. I slow down and focus on how the warm water feels on my hands. Washing each dish in an order that I've always done dishes....cups, utensils, plates, bowls, pots and pans. I look outside to see the yard greening up and have even had a few nights when the window was open and I could smell spring on the way. I have come to realize that this is my meditation. If you think about it, most anything you do with intent can be meditative. So, rather than judge myself for not being a yogi and sitting crosslegged on the floor for two 20 minute sessions a day, I do the dishes. Can you find peace in the redundancy of daily activities?