Are there moments in your day for you to unwind? To think? To let spontaneous adventures happen? If not, why not?
Don't make excuses for not caring for your own soul. Most of us humans who were born int he 1900's, were not taught how to just BE. We weren't taught to see, "I'm too tired to do that. I actually need rest instead."
Why not? We need to. I am purposefully working on this. I haven't been consciously doing my 365 days of rest as much lately, but I'm going to really try to bring it back!
"Want to know why your brain spins through hundreds of thoughts, especially focusing on the catastrophic, scary, and disorienting ones, just as you lay your head down on the pillow to go to sleep? Because that's the first sliver of space you've provide for it to do its most sacred activity: think." John Delony in "Building a Non-Anxious Life."
He goes on to write about how, while community is incredibly important, "We have become a society free and clear of all boundaries. With the creation of the internet, email, social media, and smart phones, no one knows where they stop or other people start anymore. And because we don't know, we find ourselves living other people's lives. Or the way we think they expect us to live."
- Do you say yes because you are afraid of saying no?
- Do you do holidays the way the in-laws want?
- Do you take a job to make someone else proud?
- Are you shamed into accepting invitations?
- Do you make sure everyone else is taken care of before you ask yourself how you are doing?
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