Slowing down is a foundational practice within the collective healing work I do. There’s nothing I offer—whether conceptually or through guided practice—that doesn’t rely on it.
In my own life and in the spaces I hold for others, I’ve found that being in relationship with a world that’s changing fast and in a lot of pain brings up a whole host of very real and very normal feelings. Overwhelm, grief, helplessness—it’s all part of it.
This work—the collective healing work that I’m called to—is about learning how to be with those feelings, rather than bypass or push through them. It’s about feeling our feelings in constructive and well-supported ways, and making meaning of what’s happening inside of us so we can meet the world as it is, and be of service to it in the way we’re called.
Slowing down is at the heart of all of this. Which is why I’m spending extra time on it for this month’s guided meditation—offering techniques for the practice itself, in hopes that they might be of support—in some way, shape, or form—to your personal practice.
In this practice you’ll find 9 tips (or techniques) for the practice of slowing down. Take or leave what resonates with you.