April 2024

In a season where everything seems to spring loaded with energy, I am finding the need to pause more frequently and remind myself to slow down. 

Over the last few weeks, life has presented several experiences that have the potential for me to make a lot of jumps forward in my mind and actions. Trying to make sense of challenges and know outcomes before they can be known. Try to make things happen to bring about quicker results or awareness. 

I think at different points of life we all find ourselves in places like this, wanting to charge forward to try and find the answers before we can truly know what we know.  It is our human nature to want to go faster than we are capable of, to test our limits of knowledge and capacity and to move out of what is often uncomfortable and unknown. 

Just like we can’t get the buds to open any faster or the air to warm any quicker, we need to be able to slow our bodies, slow our minds and even slow our actions. 

And that is my mantra this month; Slow Down.  

Slowing down in my movement, slowing down in my mind.Catching the racing thoughts and working to slow them down. Trying my best in the mundane moments to be in the simplicity of now. In doing this I find I am slowing myself to not miss the beauty of what is in this moment. 

My teacher always taught me there is no moment but now. So I am taking her words into my heart and my being and slowing down to fully know them as my truth. 

I hope you join me. 

Peace,
Margot