What if you could pick yourself up like a chess piece and transport to a part of a world that lives a little slower: like watch the world go by your front porch for a while. As in lie in a hammock after a hard day’s work knowing that you’ve done enough. We’re talking sitting down with your friends for a few hours of idle chat and sharing rather than maybe just a few quick minutes. What if you could immediately get that perspective on your own pace of life and how it might be affecting you on every level of your life: physically, mentally, spiritually?
After a break that offered me some much needed rhythm adjustment, I’m looking for ways to hold onto the mellow that is so healing to me. I feel like when the time factor is taken out, I’m able to reflect on slowness not just as a concept but as a part of who I am. My body relaxes.
Must we live so fast? What is my rhythm?
Are there some things that can silently drop off the to do list?
How about one thing at a time today?
What are some meaningful ways to shift the flow for a while just to see how it feels?
So true! Sometimes slowing down doesn’t seem like an option, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a choice. Great work!
Thanks, Fio! Pace really doesn’t feel like a choice sometimes when it really can be, right? Well said.
The pace of eac individual is affected by his (her) enviroment, just do this small excercise, sit down on top of a bridge right over the freeway and try to relax, now do the same excercise but go to a park and sit down below a tree. What is the difference? To me, the moment, the nature giving the advice. The tree telling me to stop my internal voice and listen to the great spirit. when you aling with the pace of the earth it’s easier to find your own pace. Ask mother nature and you will have the right answer for you. Peace & love
That’s really true, Andres! Nature sets a certain rhythm for us & we can tune into it when we need to. Thanks~