Do You Know How to Slow Down?

Do you feel that you are always busy and trying to do too much?

Do you find when you are doing x that you think about y?

Are you ever present to the experience you are involved in ?

If you realize that you aren’t experiencig life the way you once did, this can be a warning sign to slow down so that your life won’t pass you by. 

Here’s some tips to take when you are trying to squeeze everything into a day or you are pre-occupied by thinking about what you forgot to do, need to do or shouldn’t have done!

1) Ask yourself if you are becoming too rigid. Do you find yourself being more and more serious, concerned with control
and laughing a lot less? When you are with friends and family are you making little lists in your head or racing off to use your cell phone or laptop?

2) Do you feel it’s been a while since you’ve been fully in any moment? Try this week to really embrace two activities you are involved in using your undivided attention. Give yourself permission to let your mind clear itself of other obligations for two set times this week and see what that is like for you.

3) Do you find that little things are becoming magnified larger than life? Is it another morning where your daughter didn’t take the food out of her room before school or feed the cat like she was supposed to? In the movie, “My life as a dog” the protagonist found comfort in remembering that there are others in worse circumstances than himself. This helped him to not blow up his current situation.

Try to see what the point of the busy buzz is that you create each day and if some of the items on the list can be eliminated rather than pursued. Let others multi-task while you stay focused and present.