In the midst of these busy days when all of my focus goes on staying resourced in order to show up in the best way in all of my programs, I take a quiet moment and stand still... right here in this moment, I feel awe and wonder for this LIFE.
Do you feel it too?
How precious and vulnerable it is… this thing that we call life?
The world goes FAST.
Better, more, faster are the words we receive as an imprint from childhood on. We get caught in a rat race.
We may forget for a while about the things that truly matter.
In the beginning, it may feel exciting and we may even feel proud that we can cope with high intensity, but in the end it eats us up. And what we initially call success may turn into regret.
If we just stand still for a moment…
What is it that we truly long for?
And what if for this, we don’t need to run so much?
These past couple of weeks, I feel stretched in my capacity to do my work, adjust to the fact that my daughter now goes to school and therefore comes back home in the middle of the day, and have my partner being full time employed (1,5 weeks more!).
We literally crash in bed exhausted all of us at the end of the day.
These past few days, Dylan and I took extra care to nourish each other even if it’s just very briefly for 5-10 minutes a day.
A warm long hug, listening to each other sharings, “what can I offer you right now?”, and connecting before we go to bed with physical
touch is what carries us during such intense days.
Also, jogging in the mornings became a must for me, not just a nice to have. It gives spaciousness to hold the intensity.
A short period like this is fine, but I’d become deeply unhappy, I think, if it was like this all the time.
I wonder how other people manage it long term?
We have only one child and are blessed having grandma’s and grandpa’s who are willing to support.
And those who don’t?
I seriously question the way the society is rolling. If both parents work full time 5 days a week and give the best of their energy to work, and then after work they still give to their children, and in the weekends they catch up with household errands, and maybe spend a bit of time all together, when do they REST and RELAX?
On vacation 1-2 times a year?
What are the consequences of such living for all of us emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually?
And how about living? Truly LIVING.
Spending consistent quality time with our loved ones, doing what we love, daily feeling the sun, the wind, the water on our skin.
What would it take us to shift this individual and collective HABIT into Alignment and Balance?
What stories would we need to let go of?
What shoulds would we need to look straight into the eyes?
