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Slowing is a deep attunement to cyclical life in general. It’s coming home to remember that one's bio, psyche, and spiritual nature is inseparable from Nature. I love the term, svastha, in Ayurveda. A Sanskrit word, literally, meaning to be seated at home within the Self. It also, coincidentally, is used when referring to embodied, balanced health.
How do you attune and connect with the rhythms of the day, the season, and so on. What shifts do you notice within you and around you? The 38 Ways to live In a Slow Way are examples of rituals, markers, or practices that can be used in cultivating a slow landscape, as well as moving towards svastha.
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The proverbial challenge is how we’ve been inured by capitalist culture. Consumed and punctured by the push for more, when is enough, enough? Even shifting one percent has a domino effect. Plant a spore in optimal conditions and it will spread.
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DAY 2 PROMPTS:
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What would it be like if I’d allow for reconnection with the real timekeepers: the solar cycles, the moon phases, the shifting seasons of the landscape, and the greater seasons of my life?
What does fast feel like in my body?
How practiced am I in the art of doing nothing?
Consider what I do constantly versus consistently*. Jot down just a couple things in either scenario. What’s the vibe of each? Is there something that can be released? Surrendered to the winds? Is constantly a burden?
(*Consistency doesn’t necessarily have a prescribed cadence. That is for you to consider, define with soft edges, and move in and out of fluidly.)
If I were to imagine my body as a landscape, what would it look like and how would I like the energy to flow?
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