I am finding my way back to slow living. Waking up in the morning and leaving my phone on the nightstand to instead grab my journal and write all the thoughts I need to expel. Doing yoga in my free time and before bed. Focusing on finding and creating peace within and around me.
I have fallen away from the habits of a few months ago. I got a job and fell back into the “work is life” mindset. I stopped finding or making time to do the things that truly bring me joy like writing or reading or doing yoga. I was always in a hurry. A hurry to wake up, get ready, eat and get to work on time. I recently wrote a post about how I love my job! and while that is most definitely still true I find it still very necessary to have things that I love outside of my job that bring me peace and happiness. These are the things that I focused on in my time of unemployment when the stress and depression were taking over. I turned to painting, writing and yoga among other things to gain stability and create peace in the chaos that was my life and mind. After securing a job I was so focused on that that I forgot about the other things. I was happy to be once again doing the thing that I thought I “should” be doing. But working is not the only thing I “should” be doing. I should also be continuing to foster my creativity and my mind.
Which is why I have decided to focus on that a little bit more. When I am not at work I am going to intentionally do those things. I am going to paint again and write as much as possible. I am going to do yoga and journal about all the wonderful things rolling around in my mind. I am going to make time to go out into nature and truly give it the appreciation it deserves. Life is about every aspect not just making a living. It is also about enjoying the fact that you are living.
Living it Up Halfheartedly 