10/02/2025
✨Pause 🌹
Each season offers lessons Autumn offers us the space to pause. It is meant to be a time to slow down, to look back at the harvest from summer and be still.
It can be difficult to honour stillness, it can feel like a pause is a waste of precious time. When we pause, we have the space to look back, to see what supported us, what hindered us and what we want more or less of. If we never pause we risk continuing to engage in the same unfulfilling patterns over and over again because we haven’t taken the time to look and see if those patterns are working or not. Taking a pause aids in ensuring we get more out of life because it allows the space to take inventory of what is aligned and what no longer serves.
I often catch myself rushing, and in this society it is hard not to rush. My old office had a beautiful garden in the back that I often rushed by at the end of the day. My last week there I took a pause daily in the garden. I took a moment to literally smell the roses (my favourite scent) and just be.
As I lingered in the garden I wished I would have taken more time for stillness there before. I know we can’t go back and I know we can learn from what was. So I am choosing to learn. I write this post with a post bath little Wally dog curled up on my lap snoozing. And I sit in this space enjoying this pause with him. I can’t give myself more time with the roses that I loved so much but I can watch how I move through life to ensure that I can create room to pause and enjoy this live rather than just rush through it.
