"Slow Down!"
Two words: slow down.
It's pretty simple.
If you're driving with passengers and one of them says this to you, it's pretty easy to understand what they mean.
Same thing if you're jogging with a friend, or even in a rush or hurry.
It's pretty simple.
That last one can get pretty tricky, but being suggested to slow down, chill out, or calm down when we're in a little frenzy is a little easy to adjust to.
What if it turns into a perpetual cycle, though?
I know personally if I am found in a frenzy by someone else and they suggest or even tell me to slow down, I find it hard or even irritating to take their advice.
Their audacious suggestion is so easy to comprehend, but so hard to put into action.
I can even see the possible ramifications of my trajectory, but cannot or even do not want to calm or slow down.
I might comment with, "you're right," and slow down, but it takes a few more moments for my mind to follow.
I have had conversations with others that said they have had similar experiences.
When someone tells us to calm down, it's usually the last thing we want to do!
Even when it makes the most sense!
I have been in pain management for a couple of years trying to figure out the source of my pain.
After years of physical therapy, medication trials, multiple injections, and basically being numbed, my anesthesiologist suggested, "It could be your jaw... ??"
I exclaimed in reply, "It IS my jaw!!"
I found myself in a hurry a few weeks ago.
Being single and working for myself, I rarely have anyone... examine me. I didn't find myself in a "frenzy" until about 2 weeks into the new TMJ diagnosis.
I finally knew where the source of the pain was, but had to change habits.
When dealing with pain there is a certain willingness for new adaptation for true change and comfort to be found.
I enjoy meditation, inspirational recordings, and tarot readings every morning at the start of my day.
It helps me navigate through most things I encounter more positively and objectively.
I am human, however.
One morning, as I was meditating, I felt myself actually loosening my grip on thought.
This is always my primary intention for meditation, but until that moment I had not realized that I had just been sitting and thinking while going through the motions of meditating for...
weeks?...
maybe months!
My physical therapist mentioned to me before the diagnosis that there is "some letting go involved" for the exercises to be most beneficial.
I was 100 percent serious, and in a sort of disbelief that I was, when I replied, "How do I let go?"
I finally understood.
As subtle as it was, my slight release of thought was helping come back around to understanding the concept of letting go.
After meditation I moved the inspirational recordings portion of my morning.
I listen to a lot of inspirational speakers, but I listen to Abraham Hicks, daily.
If you are not familiar, I definitely suggest you become familiar.
They are wonderful!
When I first started listening to their recordings, I would save the best ones and try to go back to them.
Now, I just let the universe yield to me the first one I see after opening YouTube.
This particular morning, the recording that popped up talked mostly about rest.
Giving things that you have been trying to push into place some easing up on or just take a break is basically what it was saying.
I had been tirelessly, or at least in my mind, trying to make my pain go away as well as constantly trying to finish everything that I was doing instead of enjoying it during the making of it.
I heard the message loud and clear!
I then moved on to the portion of my morning where I spend time with my cats outside.
While I was getting my cats together for the outing, I was pondering what rest means.
Some of these pains that I had been feeling are mostly due to tension.
What if I just let those muscles rest for a moment?
I did...
for literally a moment...
Lightbulb!
During my morning cat outings, I always check my extremely personal Moon Reading.
Every morning I get 2 tarot readings.
Some mornings I wake up in between them.
I always kept later day hours when I was not self employed so I usually don't wake up until mid morning.
This morning I woke up around 11 so I didn't get to these readings until I'd received both.
Not 1, but both tarot readings said to sit back and let the universe give you what you are worthy of, because you ARE worthy, basically.
It was now blatantly obvious, after reviewing my morning, that the universe was telling me to pay attention, slow down, let go, and take a break.
So, I took its advice.
I took a few weeks off, and have been catching myself stopping just a little more often.
I feel more at peace and the pain associated with my jaw is subsiding.
It is a work in progress, but I think I am coming along nicely, so far.
Every day I seem to find more ease than the day before in all areas.
The pain is lessening, it seems, and that urgent feeling in the back of my mind to get things done isn't pulsating back there like it was before.
I'm enjoying the process of things becoming a bit more.
Things just seems to be getting a little more easy, then a little easier.
I think that we get so involved in our day-to-day things that we just want to get through them.
We want to just finish them.
We lose ourselves a little in the moment.
I think it is important to take breaks and do a little self evaluating, self love, and self care every now and then.
I really enjoyed it and am still enjoying the benefits received from my hiatus.
Why is it so hard to slow down once we get into a cycle, though and why does it seem to take a toll on us, physically?
Namaste
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