Slow Down…..

Last week has all been a week of almost nil activity. One is health that did not permit me to move around, and the second was my encounter with the process of nothingness. As a part of my latest learnings, I came across a practice called SLOWING DOWN. As the name says, it is about the pace of things in life.

How simple the word sounds, right? Slowing down! There is nothing that is demanded to be done, in fact, all that it speaks about is doing less or doing slow. Right? WRONG!

Even I had the same thoughts when I first heard about this. I thought it takes no such effort to practice this thing called slowing down, and all that I will have to do is pick up some less number of tasks in my routine. At max what I may have to do is to be mindful of not rushing into things. Simple it sounded. Simple is what I thought of it to be.

And then the last one week has been a real roller-coaster ride. A moment of success and then hours and hours of not being able to practice the slowing down has made me understand what it really is. It made me understand what I have created out of this beautiful life that I have got. It made me realize that regardless of whatever blessing I think of my life to be, there is yet so much that I have eluded myself of till now. And it is all this that makes me promise myself that I will continue this journey of slowing down until I am able to gift myself this art and habit of being in the zone of nothingness whenever I want to.

Anyways my journey will continue, and I will surely share with you as and when something new is experienced by me. What I wanted to share with you today was, to offer you a chance of reflecting on the pace at which you are living your life. Irrespective of you are happy about it or not, see if you actually can slow down? Are you able to reduce the pace at which you are live your life?

Just a word of caution, do not mistake slowing down with not doing your office work and sitting down to watch a movie. Or not going out with friends, and instead of spending your time at home with your family. Slowing down is not about coming out of your regular chores in the kitchen and reading a book instead. Do not see gardening, as a slowing down process, instead of being on your treadmill and burning some calories.

Now that I have told you what all slowing down is not, what I have decided to not tell is what actually slowing down means. And I have a purpose behind that! I want you to experience and try and practice this slowing down in your own unique way, and then share with me how is it that you practiced slowing down.

As I leave you with this practice, I also put here an offer of a Pro-bono 15 minutes coaching call, for anyone who wishes to share their experience and then understand what SLOWING DOWN actually is. And how this practice has the potential to be the biggest gift you would have given yourself ever.

I can be reached at +91 74119 78119. A WhatsApp message to schedule the call, once you have tried it all for almost a week, would be preferred.

Stay Safe!

Love, RB