February 3rd, 2025
When we
hide, grasp, push, shove, dominate, escape, or demonstrate other un-grounded
behaviors, we are more than likely acting out of a place of self-protection, pushing
down a weakness or limitation we have that we can’t bear for the world, or ourselves,
to see.
This limitation
can create a shadow side in us, and the work we do to cover it up and protect an
image of ourselves can be exhausting and destructive. In today’s Pause, we will
identify a limitation in ourselves, see how we have acted to protect it,
embrace it with compassion, and let it get untangled from our grip. From that place
we will be able to be vulnerable, open, and at rest, live transformed, and be
guided on how to move into the world.
“Our
creations come not when we’re out in the world, gathering impressions, but when
we’re sitting still, turning those impressions into sentences. Our job, you could
say, is to turn, through stillness, a life of movement into art.” The Art of
Stillness, Pico Iyer
Photo by Andrey Grinkevich on Unsplash
