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Practice Rest, Not Hustle
Some of my most creatively inspired ideas come from getting past letting my mind think all it's thoughts and have all its worries. This is not possible in each 24 hour period, but when I am able to get past all the thinking, even past being the inspiration phase, my thinking is actually quite hilarious! I don't consider myself a funny person, I'm definitely silly at times, but there is a part of me that's voice comes out rather rarely that I long to hear amidst the noise of the world.
💪🏼 Building the muscles of relaxation is supremely valuable to so many aspects of our wellbeing, and that is a huge reason behind why I do what I do.
Art is medicine.
The breath is medicine.
The unstuck mind is medicine.
We’ve been taught that growth comes from effort, pressure, and pushing through. My body could go along with this crap in my twenties, but today? LOL!
Rest is not quitting.
Rest is how the body remembers calm.
Rest is where we stop performing.
👑 When we practice rest, the mind softens. The crown opens. Ideas arrive without force.
Gentleness becomes a soft place to lay the pressure down instead of piling more on the wound.
Do you have a practice around Intention rest?
🛁 Mine tend to include long baths, no - expectation spontaneous watercolor paintings, laying on the balcony with my plants, meditating and stretching.
Tell me about yours...
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