This is all the new trend….but I do tend to like this idea of slow living. For I often find I am in a rush. I have this anxious feeling of rushing through all my daily tasks, to bring them to completion asap.
This anxious, rushing, feeling, I can trace back to my childhood. You see from the age of seven, I have had to deal with migraine headaches. Very debilitating until around age 45, whereby some miracle, they lessened in severity. But from somewhere around my teenage years, I felt I had to rush to get everything completed in case I got sick with a migraine and had to spend hours in bed with a massive headache. This became a very deeply entrenched habit. More especially in the years I was raising children, you see everything had to be perfect and in order in case anything went wrong.
But as I got older, I have had to retrain my brain and remind myself, they are only mild these days why the panic? Tomorrow is another day with a new beginning and a little mess is not going to hurt.
SLOW DOWN, who cares if you take a rest.
Just how do you slow down?
Gather less stuff. We take nothing into this world and we take nothing out when we leave.
Read the bible and pray. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Begin the day with peaceful, positive thoughts.
Retrain your mind to stop and enjoy.
Be grateful and make an effort to thank God for all the good things in life.
Are you a genuine rusher like myself?
Stop and, look around…..what can you see, what can you hear?
A yacht moored for the night swaying in the breezy evening air.
The pink galahs singing in the trees.
Or pink galahs flying overhead
Sipping coffee in a garden.
Children singing in the background,
Or the laughs of children climbing the sand dunes.
A moonlit night.
A person bathing in the salty seawater.
Children swimming till dusk.
A blue and white wave crashing on the shoreline……
A pink bedroom to relax in.
A pink sunset
A trip on a boat out to sea.
And Spotting a sea lion relaxing.
Hmm there is alot of pink in there… I am sure it is a very “slow living” colour!!
Those are truly the things that will make us slow down a little and become enchanted with the daily simplicity’s of life.
