Less Doing, More Being
Sometimes we need to pull it all in and just BE. Be with ourselves, our people, our work, our bodies, our own beating hearts….without pushing or forcing. To BE in our lives with softness and spaciousness and a willingness to breathe, allow, open, and be in the void.
To give permission to surrender and melt into the emotion or feeling or sensation without trying to manipulate it, change it, or control it.
Less doing, more being. This is a huge shift in our societal norms of so much doing.
The density of what is unfolding on a global level is being felt everywhere. To me, it has beckoned me to slow way down.
We are in eclipse season and eclipses signify great change and transformation. Did you feel the huge shift in energy this past weekend with the 1st of 2 eclipses that we will be experiencing this month? Time seemed to stand still, there was a cool, unsettling energy in the air, and what felt to me to be nudge towards a different way of existing.
In every change process there is that liminal time -- that “in between” time as I have talked about before. That time of when you are so clearly complete and DONE with previous chapters of life, yet not quite dropped into the new.
This is not to be feared or manipulated, yet a moment to surrender, to yield, to open, to get curious, and to trust in the greater unfolding. This is a moment of when bringing in the “less is more” approach into how you are moving through the world, could greatly serve.
We cannot bypass the pain that so many are feeling right now in midst of the density of the worlds unfolding, yet, that does not mean that we need to drown in it. We cannot BE and live in ignorance of what is happening with humanity, yet being glued to the news and immersing oneself in the images and stories constantly is not productive and will not serve anyone.
Rather than obsessively checking social media (doom scrolling!) and/or the news for updates, why not use that time to drop down into your body. Locate your breath. Feel the magnitude of what is happening by holding yourself close and feeling your own weary and broken heart.
Moving from that place of grounded connection, of embodied alignment, of integrity in your upright self….not collapsed and consumed by fear. Knowing that that truly does not serve anyone.
The call is to tune IN, to honor where you are on your journey, what feels aligned for YOU in midst of the density of these times, and to drop deeply down into yourself so that you may feel anchored and resourced so as to continue to navigate these moments in time.
Stay connected to your people without losing yourself, but rather honoring what you need to do to take care of you and your families.
I will leave you with this beautiful poem for today….I read it and it really struck me. Perhaps it will you as well.
“Everything is beautiful and I am so sad. This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief. The light spraying through the lace of the fern is as delicate as the fibers of memory forming their web around the knot in my throat. The breeze makes the birds move from branch to branch as this ache makes me look for those I’ve lost in the next room, in the next song, in the laugh of the next stranger. In the very center, under it all, what we have that no one can take away and all that we’ve lost face each other. It is there that I’m adrift, feeling punctured by a holiness that exists inside everything. I am so sad and everything is beautiful.”
~”Adrift” by Mark Nepo
You are not alone! As always, I am out here for support and/or connection. Reach out anytime.
