Life Prescriptions/ Spirit/ The Power of Pause

I believe I started the power of pause long before I realized what I was doing, because I am spirit driven first!

The power of pause for me now is very intentional, when the world, my world becomes stressful and I need a break from my normal every day of being , I take my pause. It works as a matter of fact it works well, it has become one of my healthy habits.

I'm a very active person and I enjoy having 2-3 projects going on simultaneously, it could be from being a single parent for years, and or spending an enormous amount of time in my adult life as a single woman. I'm not sure, but I have been juggling and balancing most of my life. But there are times when as much as I love whatever I am doing at the time, I need to do what I call my pull back. I physically pull back from the world so I can rejuvenate. This means taking no calls absolutely no calls from my man, children, grand children, friends, bill collectors; phone either off or on extremely low vibration. Just in case there is a real emergency and my pause will have to wait. Other than that I am in pause mode.

In those times I do different things, like the spa bath. Nope I'm not talking about going to an expensive spa but that could be awesome as well! But making my bath into a spa. I buy great inexpensive gels, oils, salts, and I love baby gel for my skin yessssssssssssssssssss! I light my candles, fill the tub with oils, salts make it all sudsy , music it could be from jazz, gospel, classical, (love violins) sounds of rain or the beach, honey I'm gone for at least an hour to a place of peace. There are times I will have water near by, or some great healthy drink, or my favorite wine.

Another one of my favorite pauses is quiet meditation, I wrap my locks up, put on my favorite lounger something long and comfortable , wrap my self in my favorite blanket, close my eyes and I am transported to some exotic beach. I can hear the waves, the sounds of birds see the ocean, watch the sunset. Sometimes I'm alone, sometimes I'm watching my joyful grand children or sometimes I'm with my heavenly father. Then there are times when I'm wrapped in my man's arm and we are basking in the silence of the moment.

There also have been times when I've taken real life sabbaticals. When my parents became ill, and passing I resigned from my job, took the time to be with them in their passing and spent long evenings with my siblings processing. When my brother was passing my sisters and I spend about 10 days with my sister-in-law. These life events were so profound, I knew I needed time to push back, pull back and re-define my life. I was out of the main stream for about 7 years, lived off of cashing out on the old job, savings, and developing life coaching.

I am main stream again working as a social worker and coaching, but pause has been my saving grace. Pausing has taught me how to love myself on an entirely deeper level, I recommend it.

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