An Intentional Pause

As the school year comes to a close for summer vacation, I too am still wired into that internal calendar within me. I’ll be taking a pause for several weeks to renew, refresh and delight in switching things up a bit. This is relating only to my weekly blog posts as I am still happily engaging with those I’m mentoring and warmly welcome anyone new on the horizon.

I enjoy pondering and discovering what piques my curiosity and attention. Perhaps it might meld itself into something that I desire to shape words around. To have some wide open space is often when the treasures are discovered and I adore being caught by surprise.

Life and its events have not received the memo that I’m pausing. The ideas, moments will continue to come in. Imitating birds pecking at my window enticing me to fling it open and allow them unencumbered entrance. It’s such a fascinating happening and one that still catches me by surprise. Yet, it’s almost like the dream state, when faced with endless looping over a challenging situation and upon awakening, when the conscious has been allowed rest, there it is. Whatever the source behind the rampant running of my hamster wheel thoughts, they have been quieted and offered some leisure time.

I have enjoyed using what a person I am following is putting out into the world as an oracle deck when they are taking a respite. I go back into the archives of their offerings and ask to be guided to what may resonate for that day. I’m often delighted in landing just where I need to. Perhaps that might resonate for you here?

May these weeks remain full of whatever nurtures our souls and also allow us the wiggle room to slither out of old worn out skins that are asking to be shed. Navigating alongside the natural flow of life while remaining curious about where it may take us. Pauses are necessary and are allowed to be taken even in the busiest and most intense seasons of our lives.

To carve out the time and trust that many will benefit from this self regulation we are actively engaging in is vital. Noticing our breath, sharing a conversation with a trusted pal, listening to music, a podcast, reading a book we have longed to get our hands onto, observing nature, meditating, getting our bodies moving… It becomes our practice to tap in to inquire and offer ourselves what we are each so deserving to receive. Discovering that this self imposed respite  becomes something we must instigate from within. If we are waiting for permission from the outside world it may never come.  I’ll return in several weeks and until then, Namaste dear ones. I SEE and appreciate you so very much.

The Power of the Pause by Orna Ross

Dear One,

It looks like now

is time to go slow,

to shelter

out of the windy ways

of the world.

Close our doors

and loosen our corsets of thought,

slip free of our whalebones

and tenterhooks-and breathe.

Feel how it feels to lie still.

Let ourselves trust

in the power of the pause.