One of my teachers said to me once, “We need to pause, just long enough to be informed.” When our life is deconstructing, when our familiar points of reference are shifting or falling away completely, when our minds are the most confused and our hearts the most broken-open, that is the time to pause. Pause, just long enough to be informed.
Then we begin again. One thought at a time, one choice at a time, one day and one night at a time we begin the long walk out of whatever version of the valley of the shadow we find ourselves in, and begin to create something new, something different, something that is in alignment with our deeper longing, our deeper sense of purpose, of being. We start to pay attention in a very different way, to become mindful of the small things, the beautiful things, the kindnesses. We begin to remember what’s really important, and to file those realizations away. Those are the ingredients that we will rebuild with; the things that are really important.
We don’t necessarily have to wait until the bottom falls out to ask ourselves what’s really important to us. We can pay attention now, pause now, ask now. While sometimes it seems that we have to hit a wall, or hit a bottom in order for the Universe to get our attention, it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way.
If you have read this far, there is already a knowing in you that something needs or wants to shift, to realign, or to be released. We know. Somewhere, something inside of us knows that the life that we are living is out of whack somehow. We can deny that we know it, but we do. Something in us does.
Before the bottom falls out, or before you become so depleted from keeping something in place that has been trying to move for a long time, pause. Make a space for that still, small voice. We need to pause, daily, just long enough to be informed.
– Jeff Anderson, M.A. ~ http://spiritasjeff.com/
Very nice to find you at this time in my life. Peace and blessings to you.
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