Slow Down

Adopt a slower pace and be open to the receptive realm of beauty and magic. The fulfillment you seek through eternal striving is waiting to be discovered within, where your heart’s wisdom and divine connection await.

Approaching life in a less hurried manner allows you to enjoy your everyday moment more fully, connect with your loved ones more deeply, and express your unique genius with greater mastery and style. It also prevents burnout and exhaustion.

In physical disciplines such as yoga and dance, rushing through your moves diminishes the power of your practice. Adopting a more leisurely tempo in every part of your life will amplify your energy, clarity, and effectiveness.

Your diligence can serve as a sturdy anchor in the tumultuous tides of life. The time is right to mitigate potential sloppiness, excess, or fatigue by distributing your effort in a clean, clear, deliberate, and precise way.

Remember that life is what you do every second of every day. It is not a race to something else. Release attachment to the end goal and find present moment joy in every project or undertaking that comes your way, whether you’re rehearsing on the stage, performing on the stage, or sweeping the stage.

Going slowly will ensure that you build a solid foundation for all that you want to create and manifest. Just as learning to play a new musical instrument requires painstaking and methodical steps, you must take the necessary time to internalize all that you learn along the way. Once you achieve ground level proficiency, your efforts will naturally gain in speed and complexity.

Why push yourself beyond your capacity, when you can open to the eternal realm of relaxed enjoyment and ease? Relax, dear one, and be at home in the world. You have no competition, for there is no other like you. Therefore, your dance of destiny is unique, and your gifts are things that only you can share. Give yourself plenty of time to perfect and polish your offerings. Expand into a sense of abiding calm and enjoy every single step along the way.

Bring this wisdom into your body by coming into a comfortable seated position. With a relaxed and straight spine, rest your hands on your knees with palms up. Lightly touch the index finer and thumb of each hand. Become aware of the subtle connectivity between these fingertips. Inhale and imagine energy flowing down the central channel of your body to your root chakra (the place where your tailbone rests upon the earth, cushion, or chair). As you exhale, imagine sending energy back up through your spinal column and out through the crown of your head. Continue visualizing energy moving down as you inhale, then up and out as you exhale.

Release mental chatter. Get out of your head and into your body. Release attachment to outcome and step into a soft, open state of enjoyable exploration.