Listen. Because listening’s important:
Hi and welcome to the Re-Enchant Your Life reminder.
Your sacred pause in the day where you’re encouraged to take a moment to stop and tune into your inner wisdom and become present, so that you can reconnect to your personal power and confidently embrace who you’re becoming, as you Re-Enchant Your life and create the change you truly desire.
Today you’re being reminded to pause and do nothing.
Go within.
Rest.
Take time to pause and allow yourself to dream.
Take time to nourish yourself deeply.
How often do you prioritise the stillness, the nourishing and the dreaming?
Do you schedule time just to dream, or is your to-do list full of action and activity?
Review your relationship with stopping and pausing. This is after all part of the natural rhythm of life.
Yet, we can often judge stopping, pausing and resting, as lazy, unproductive or a waste of time, as there’s nothing tangible, or what society teaches us as valuable and worthwhile at the end of it.
Feeling refreshed, nourished and restored, doesn’t receive the same accolades as being busy, achieving and exhausted.
But when you allow yourself to stop, to pause, to dream and restore, those tasks on your to-do lists get done better, more efficiently and to a higher standard.
There’s less resentment of things or people taking your time, as you have more energy, so the time you have left creates better connections with family and friends.
In this very moment, just pause and take a breath, as you let yourself pause.
Today’s SHEro Action:
Today’s SHEro action is to pause and do nothing.
Can you give yourself 5 minutes of daydreaming, or maybe even an hour?
Notice how you feel about stopping and doing ‘nothing’.
Does it feel joyful, or does guilt and the dreaded ‘should’s’ creep in.
Give yourself permission to take some time to stop – no guilt, no judgement and no expectations.
Pause, and take a breath. As you allow yourself to do absolutely nothing.
Today’s Affirmation:
“It’s okay for me to stop”
I’ll see you tomorrow for your daily reminder to Re-Enchant Your Life with me, Rebecca-Anuwen,
In the meantime, enjoy doing nothing as you walk Your SHEro’s Journey!
PostScript
We’re not often taught the importance of the pause, but notice it in the rhythm of your breathing.
You breathe in, there’s a slight pause and then you exhale.
One of my favourite places to really experience this is walking a labyrinth, or even using a finger labyrinth, if you don’t have a walkable labyrinth close by.
You walk in towards the centre of a labyrinth, pause in the middle, and then walk back out, and this this is a beautiful metaphor for life.
You start at the beginning of the labyrinth with a question you want guidance on. You walk into the centre of the labyrinth letting go of anything that no longer serves you.
You pause in the centre of the labyrinth and assimilate all that you’ve become aware of, let go of and you listen to the guidance you’ve asked to receive.
Then you walk back out of the labyrinth on a new path, representing the new person you have become after this journey.
All three stages of the labyrinth walk are as important as each other.
Just as in life, we need to inhale what we need, pause and rest to assimilate the information, then exhale as we express the truth of who we are.
All three stages equally important.
Right now you’re being reminded to rest, so that after this time you can walk back out on a new path ready to express more of the truth of who you are.
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