I wanted to share some thoughts on the power of pausing with you today - I'm hoping it's just what you need . . .
Pausing helps me to collect things like courage, thoughts, energy, attention and lost keys.
Pausing helps me to be a more thoughtful and better listener. To listen with all of me when my son Levi tells me about how he made a new friend at school that day or when he talks about the frame rate on the game he's playing. (🤪)
Pausing helps me to step out of the strong emotions of other people and discern what I'm feeling, how I'm perceiving situations and find my center.
Pausing helps me to remember to call my friend now instead of waiting for a 'better' time that usually doesn't come.
Pausing helps me to make better decisions (period) and especially when I want to create a new and better-for-me habit.
Pausing keeps my nervous system from shorting out.
Pausing helps me feel softer and makes more space on my insides so I have access to compassion, kindness and not having to be 'right'.
Pausing helps me to breathe.
Pausing helps me to not take myself or presidential campaigns so seriously.
Pausing makes space for what breaks my heart and also what feeds it.
Pausing helps me to remember that when feelings and thoughts get jammed up on the inside, moving my body helps to make space for all of it to be okay.
Longer pauses help me to remember my heart. They help me to course correct. To quiet the noise of the outside world and remember what it's like to feel tiny when I look at the sky with a bazillion stars. It helps me to connect with nature and the part of me that's feral even though I wear shoes and deodorant.
Pausing seems to me to be a radical act of self-care.
Just the medicine many of us need right now. Consider yourself formally, and radically, invited to pause.
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