~St. Francis de Sales


It is hard to be authentically loving when we're in a hurry. Just pause for a moment and think about rushing because you're late - how are you with the kids or spouse? How are you in traffic? How are you with listening either to another or to your own body/soul?

Yeah, not so good.

In the 1950s, Thomas Merton said that the greatest disease in North America is busyness. But busyness isn't the biggest disease - it is actually a symptom of a deeper problem.

When we are overly busy we are often in a hurry (or frenzied or grasping or trying hard to fix ourselves or someone else) and, because of this, we live fragmented (or dis-integrated).

And when we are dis-integrated we tend to by-pass our deeper wisdom - like saying yes when everything in us is screaming, "no!" (I know you probably have never done that right?)

So - this little video invites you to continue to notice how pausing is essential to you continuing to lean in more deeply to all the invitations of your body and soul.

Without rest notes, pauses, flow, white space, margin we will not be able to lean in gently to our soul's deep wisdom. Pausing is essential to us re-integrating all the parts of us that we've ignored, orphaned, repressed, push aside, and spent copious amounts of money trying to overcome, organize, manage or make go away.

I invite you to pause - no really to pause for a moment right now....
and listen to your body and emotions and soul - maybe do a quick body scan.
What, within you in this moment, most wants your awareness?

Just notice without labeling, judging, developing a strategy etc. See if you can just gently acknowledge what's there.