When you are more resourced you are more present.
When you are more present you are more tuned in to your own needs and
the needs of everyone in the family.
When you are more tuned in to the needs of each individual everyone feels seen.
When everyone feels seen everyone feels safe.
When everyone feels safe there is harmony.
When there is harmony there is more love, more connection, more ease, more fun and more joy.
When there is more love, connection, ease, fun and joy there’s more desire to be together as a family.
(An excerpt from our FREE Slow Family Living Workbook. Click the link to receive your very own)
2 Comments to 'The Benefits of Slowing Down'
February 10, 2009
[...] It took me a long time to learn that what she was seeking was my attention – full on, undeterred, loving gaze and attention and relaxed, present connection. And when she gets it she feels fully sated. [...]
February 10, 2009
Ah yes! Paying attention…yesterday my kids learned that sometimes paying attention does not mean having to be the center of it. Mindful living also requires a certain ease with oneself, in silence, in thoughtful ponderance. Many of us run from this thing to that, desperately trying to escape the very thing we cannot – ourselves!
Thanks for the reminder about the importance of ease, flow, grace and, above all, relaxation for relationships to work!
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