The Magic of Rest and Going More Slowly
To consciously choose to incorporate and celebrate rest as a creative part of our lives is a way of calling our selves home to living in harmony with our deep selves and the natural world. It is part of the journey to healing our selves and our planet.
When we commit to going only as fast as the slowest part of us feels safe to go, we are choosing to grow and move through our lives in a gentler, more humane way. Going more slowly makes space for our feelings to surface. It allows our inner knowing to direct our doings. And, it opens the door for magic to enter our lives, for us to be able to notice where and how it does.
Choose the card below that speaks to you in this moment.
Being Different
Understanding and embracing our differentness as something valuable, honorable and empowering about our selves in a world that presses always to make us be "just like everyone else."
When You’re Tired
Claiming the right to allow our selves to rest whenever we feel tired – regardless of whether we or anyone else believe either that there's "no reason to be tired" or that there's "no time for rest.”
Going More Slowly
Giving our selves permission to move more slowly, care-fully and cautiously when we feel scared or anxious so that we may honor, protect and gently encourage our fearful selves.
Not Knowing Times
Acknowledging not-knowing times as important, empowering parts of the cycle of growing; holding our selves gently and compassionately during these sometimes disquieting seasons.
Belly Feelings
Understanding the importance of listening to our body and belly (gut) feelings; recognizing these as messages from our inner being's direct knowing.
Change Moving Quickly
Focusing on the thinnest-slice-of-now to keep our currently unprepared selves from feeling overwhelmed by visions of the changes that the who-we-are- becoming will be ready to meet.
Feeling Stuck
Learning to lovingly, patiently and compassionately witness the old patterns we are repeating when we are not yet able to change them.
Cycles
Reclaiming the natural cycles of ebb and flow, coming together and coming apart, expansiveness and withdrawal in our everyday lives.
Going 75 mph
Learning to recognize and acknowledge even the smallest steps in our own growing process.
Rest is a Sacred Act
Opening to and valuing the magic and wonders of non-doing, empty time/space in which to nourish our body, mind and spirit.
Fallow Seasons
Valuing the empowering and healing richness of intentional or serendipitous periods of still, empty, fallow time.
Reclaiming Rest
Reclaiming rest as an urgent, meaningful, honorable, significant, enormously productive choice to create time/space for the richness of our inner lives to blossom.