Creating Breathing Room
A quick ritual and an invitation
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Yesterday was not my best day. I’ll admit it. I have been holding the world together the past few days: taking care of my kids, getting my daughter ready for a piano recital, and caring for my cat who had surgery.
As someone who teaches others to pause, I’m pretty bad at doing it myself. I was stretched thing yesterday with eyes so tired they drooped to the ground. While I did use my vibrating plate and do some yoga, what I really needed was to ground and pause.
We will be focusing on Breathing Room: Creating a Ritual for Rest in my Free circle next week! Click here to join!
I was caught up in the endless todos. We needed groceries and I had work to do. My five year old is learning to read and needs me to sit with her. I’m starting a new project and needed to work on that. The proof for my book arrived and it wasn’t perfect.
UGH.
If only I had paused then the pause would not have had to chase my down, driving my kids to their activities. We were late because they wouldn’t come to the car. I was angry, my nervous system shot. I had to pull over and sit on the curb and breathe. Once I felt better, I got in the car calmly and we went.
While I didn’t model terrible behavior, because I did take a moment, think of how the rest of the day would have felt if I had actually paused. If I had sat in my chair and meditated. The project could have waited. I didn’t need to obsess with my book in that moment. My daughter could have used some more compassion when I found the old donut behind her chair.
We don’t pause enough in our lives because pausing is not productive. It doesn’t work with the world we live in. So we have to reclaim it.
Here’s a quick ritual or moment you can do to reclaim your pause and your day.
Ground yourself: Bare feet on the floor, imagining you are a tree growing roots.
Breathe in for six counts, hold for six and release for six. Do it a few times.
Place your hands where needed on your body, reminding yourself you are here, you are safe and you are whole
This is a quick ritual, but if you want to dive deeper into this practice, we will be focusing on creating breathing room and a ritual for rest in my next FREE circle.
The Voicekeeper Circle.
Not as a program. Not as a funnel. As a gathering place.
A space where women can pause, breathe, and come back to themselves together.
We meet next Wednesday, March 18 at 11 AM MT.
It’s free. It’s live. And there’s room for you.
Keep going, keep breathing and I’m right here with you,
Caroline