Slow Is Faster (and Better!)
Yesterday, Adrianne mentioned how she was getting a slow start to the day, and the response that came through me was:
Slow feels perfect. It’s so much easier on the nervous system than the rush, rush, rush of the old reality.
As soon as I typed those words, I could feel the “of course-ness” of Divine Truth. So, let’s play with this gem.
Never Enough
The old reality is FULL of subconscious programming that says: We can never do enough … or do things fast enough … or do them good/well enough.
All of that programming creates anxiety. Urgency. Overwhelm. Even panic.
So: Thank you, Angels, for dissolving “never enough” programming from our systems, and from the collective consciousness. Thank you for helping us get off the hamster wheel of do, do, do … faster, faster, faster.
(The Angels just showed me the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland singing, “I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date!” 🐇)
Needless to say, all of that hurry, hurry, hurry, rush, rush, rush-ing is incredibly stressful for our nervous systems. It’s like a never-ending marathon of fight-or-flight.
So: Thank you, Angels, for resetting our nervous systems. And thank you for helping us remember to slow down and even savor what we’re doing.
Faster and More Potent
On some level, we all know that the more we rush—say, to send an email—the more typos we make, and the more times we have to retype the same thing. Often, it takes twice as long to write an email when we’re hurrying as it would if we were to write that same email calmly and slowly. (Now the Angels are reminding me of The Tortoise and the Hare. 🐢)
Of course, there are other benefits to slowing down, too. When we do things more slowly, we’re able to bring more focus, more intention and more presence to whatever we’re doing. And that means whatever we’re doing will be far more effective than if we were hurrying. One of the biggest reasons for this is because the things we do carry the energy with which we do them.
So, something that we’ve done with a stressed-out, running-as-fast-as-I-can energy is WAY more likely to trigger others … or to get misinterpreted.
In contrast, when we allow ourselves a moment or two to pause, perhaps even take three deep breaths, and then do whatever it is we’re doing, we are Being Love for ourselves, first. AND we’re creating space to choose the energy we’d like to bring to that activity, which could be compassion or curiosity, hope or Divine Unconditional Love.
And … the Angels want to point out that THIS is how we Be the Change.
Moment by moment. Activity by activity.
It’s how we Be … and Do … with Love, as Love.
I’d say that’s a pretty good reason to stop hurrying and embrace slowness!
(with appreciation for the tortoise photo by Marcus Dietachmair on Unsplash)
