I would like to give you permission...

There are some days that I know that it's time to slow down. There are days that everything within me says it's just a day to rest. To nap, to reflect, to process, to stop. To honour the signal to surrender into resting, so that things can move through me as they should. I've learnt over time if I don't make a space for this rest, then life will find another way to cut a hole out of all the busyness for me. But choosing it instead means that it doesn't have to. To make this totally acceptable, and even completely necessary, means that I don't have to wonder why I feel this way, or think I should feel any different. Convince myself that I have 'stuff' to do, to be a 'busy bee', or that taking a day of rest is a luxury. The flow of life feels powerfully strong. Every moment it seems to be rearranging the path before us with it's divine intelligence. We are not finished projects, and neither will we ever be. Our beautiful, impermanent nature makes it so that everything is always changing. Our small conclusions we've made fade, and things reinvent again and again. When you commit to that change, when you offer your heart and surrender yourself to the pull of life's great stream, it will wash you to where you are supposed to go. The old may wash away, the new washes in, or something old becomes recycled and made new again inside a different you. Life's waters of change can be rapid and ferocious sometimes, and they will carry you quickly if you are on board. And some days....you will need to step off. To slow down. To press pause. I would like to give you permission to do those things. To find home on a sofa, a cup of tea, with a pair of your softest socks on your feet. I would like to give you permission, to let go of your to-do list, to turn off your phone, and to pick up your favourite book...or a wonderful movie for a while. To take a bath, to light candles, to spend an entire day snuggled up with yourself from time to time. I would like to give you permission, to listen to the soft, subtle signals within your soul that are craving to stop, to rest, to process...to renew you. And I would like to give you permission, to make this a totally okay, and very normal thing to do. I promise.... life will wait for you.