Hi ,
Hey even the Washington Post recommends 'stopping'!
So many good points are made here - and align with slowing and stopping to connect with ourselves to develop inner peace and reflective qualities.
From this Washington Post article here are a few excerpts.
“Downtime is important for our health and our body, but also for our minds,” says Elissa Epel, a professor in the psychiatry department at the School of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco.
Epel and others acknowledge that many of us feel as though we’re wasting time if we aren’t getting things done, but research points to the costs of always being “on” and the importance of giving our brains a break. Our brains aren’t built to handle constant activity.
Even the briefest moments of idle time, or pauses, are important, says Robert Poynton, author of “Do Pause: You Are Not a To-Do list.”
Short pauses — whether you take a few breaths before entering a room or walk through the woods for 10 minutes — can lead to necessary self-reflection.
“I think we feel that we need to be getting on with things,” says Poynton, who is an associate fellow at the University of Oxford in England. But “if we’re always getting on with things, we haven’t taken any time to decide or examine whether what we’re getting on with is the most interesting, important, fruitful, delightful, pleasurable or healthy thing.”
May you take a moment to slow and stop - inner peace - its a practise.
Your practise, its up to you this summer as our Somatic Stretch classes are on hiatus til late August.
Gratitude for your interest in inner peace.
May peace be with you,
Wendy
Wendy Weir
Libreinnerpeace.com
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