How often do you come to a full stop in your day, week or life?
Do you rush through your day and year anxious to get to the next thing and achieve the next goal or do you regularly take time to stop and enjoy where you are?
Coming to a full stop – voluntarily or involuntarily – invites you to take yourself into account.
Stopping allows you to ask and reflect on:
How am I feeling? What do I need right now?
Is this where I want to be? What would I prefer instead?
Within the ‘stop’ is often the cure.
When you allow the ‘stop’…
- you allow yourself an opportunity to find the solution you’ve been chasing yet never seem to catch up to.
- You notice what you’ve been ignoring.
- You become aware of the cause of your unhappiness, discomfort, dissatisfaction or pain.
It’s important to regularly make time to stop so you can listen to your inner voice and hear your inner response.
Only from awareness can you begin to create change.
I invite you to take a moment now and come to a full stop. Journal, take a bath, meditate, go for a walk – anything that allows you to come back to You so you can appreciate where you are and better see where you want to go next without the blinders of routine, schedules and goals.
The reason they put blinders on horses is so they won’t get distracted. The horse’s attention is thereby focused on someone else’s agenda. When they get where they’re going, the horses stop and the blinders are removed. What did the horses miss seeing on route? What are they experiencing and perhaps appreciating more once the blinders come off?
Covid19 not only forced us all to stop, it gave us permission to stop. It offered a cocoon to rest in and see what wanted or needed to be transformed. It offered a chance to drop our blinders, look around and see what we appreciated (and didn’t) in our lives, why and what we’d rather have instead.
We’re getting used to wearing masks. Let’s not get used to wearing blinders again too.
Give yourself permission to be fully in the driver’s seat of your life and come to a full stop at every sign telling you to do so, so you can clearly see where you’re meant to go next.
As a Love Note from your Soul said:
Whisper
Jolt
Set-back
Thump
BANG!
Hear me yet?
Always trying to get your attention.
(Prefer you listen to the whispers)
Love,
your Soul
Did ‘the global pause’ remove any blinders for you?
What will you do to ensure they don’t go back on?
If I can be of help, let me know. Here are three ways we can begin, click here.
