Simple pleasure of the week: the art of slow living
This is the time to learn the art of slow living. It’s never been easier to reduce the busyness, focus on what’s truly important, and spend your time in deep connection with whatever it is you’re doing and whoever it is you’re doing it with. The art of slow living is about cutting out all the excess that doesn’t really contribute to your quality of life. It’s about deepening the connection to what does contribute to your life, slowing down and reducing distractions so that we can truly be present to experience the moment. How wonderful it is that right now we all have the opportunity to cultivate the art of slow living.
“A fast approach tends to be a superficial one, but when you slow down you begin to engage more deeply with whatever it is you’re doing. You’re also forced to confront what’s happening inside you – which is one of the reasons why I think we find it so hard to slow down. Speed becomes a form of denial. It’s a way of running away from those more deeper, tangled problems. Instead of focusing on questions like who am I, and what is my role here, it all becomes a superficial to-do list.” — Carl Honoré
Happy Weekend!