Slowing Down Is Secretly How You Speed Up

Slowing down is secretly how you speed up.

This is a process I have been covering in my posts & newsletters over the last few months, and it is a process.

You see this concept in action most directly when looking after children. If they don’t want to get ready to go out, eat dinner…you name it, the worst thing you can do is hurry them.

And it takes really putting yourself in that space, a slow but centered space, so they naturally feel guided in the right direction.

The world we live in is often disconnected spiritually, so it’s not always easy to see this apply.

Where we are pressured directly or indirectly to rush – we might even be asked explicitly to do so!

Knowing on an intellectual level that the Universe can support you, and actually feeling that support day by day are two very different experiences…and part of what makes that difference, is slowing down consciously.

These last two weeks that’s what I’ve done on an even deeper level than before.

Taking time away from writing/posting and more on building trust day to day. Things have flowed even better than I was expecting.

Seeing this principle in action does require small leaps of faith. As you get in touch with your intuition, knowing when to take leaps of faith so they won’t unsettle you gets easier and easier.

Here’s encouragement to do just that! Starting with periods where you do not have to rush but might be unconsciously.

When you have a day off from work and little chores to do. When you’re sick and resting.

How deeply are -really- you letting your body sink into that state?

Another way you can start to see this principle come to life is through retrospective gratitude.

Go back over the last few weeks & months and highlight every little thing you have not given the Universe/yourself gratitude for. The momentum that has been slowly and quietly building up.

The work you’ve put into creative projects even if ‘nothing substantial’ has come of them, the opportunities you’ve had (even if you missed them), the people who have reached out when you needed it the most.

I can’t tell you the physical shifts I’ve experienced after doing this just once in moments where my ego was locked into the present circumstances and only what I could see physically.

An affirmation I like to pair with this is ‘I trust the momentum I’m building’

Your mind & energy body does not ‘know’ whether you are practicing gratitude for something that happened 5 seconds ago or 5 years ago – the impact is the exact same.

A good way to know you’re making progress is by how little/much tension is held in the body (the energy body) when you are supposed to be resting.

The more deeply you can sink into these states, the better you’ll be able to spring into action and build momentum when it is actually calling you.