Day 13: Pause
3 minutes to just be and just breathe
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This is the halfway point of our calendar and, I think, the perfect place for a pause.
I canāt really give this to you, but Iām hoping, in offering the invitation, you will take a few minutes to just be where you are and breathe into that space as deeply as you can. All the way in. All the way out. All the way here.
I know silence can sometimes feel the opposite of spacious, so here is a soft instrumental meditation from
to soundtrack this moment. Just like the title āSlow Bloom' youāll immediately feel the tight bud of yourself unwinding and opening up. I canāt really say it any better than this:This piece is a meditation on time, on letting things happen as they will. So often I feel like Iām in a rush, eager to see goals attained overnight. How many times do we have to watch the slow bloom of flowers across spring and summer to recognize ourselves in the unhurried blossom? That we have to let things happen in their own time?
As we go about our days, we rarely notice the incremental shifts around us, within us. All of a sudden there are flowers, and we feel like we earned this beauty, as though it were our due. But we miss the millions of moments between bud and leaf; we expect fruition without time, without patience.
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Thank you so much, Tami ā it's an honor to be included.