Ever feel like you’re doing too much?

Hi Folks, 

When life is throwing everything at us at once, real growth is learning to “do less”. 

“Do less.” I picked up this little mantra from two friends of mine who figured this out when they most needed it, doing their best to keep the ground from floating away during a psilocybin trip that was a bit more intense than they’d bargained for. Laying on the floor, they developed the mantra that has become so meaningful to me in my own journey: “Do less. Do less. Do less.”

As some of you might already know, back in February and March I was having debilitating bouts of vertigo that lasted for five weeks. There were a few days when my vertigo was so bad that I was afraid to even twitch. In retrospect, it’s clear to me that these episodes were the natural effect of trying to do too many things at once and stretching myself in too many directions. My body was going to force me to slow down. 

Believe it or not, I can be more than a little Go, Go, Go sometimes. As I was starting to recover, I found myself trying to resume my normal activities before I was ready, and I kept relapsing. Even now,  I’m still reminding myself to take this mantra to heart. Today, when I look at my to-do list, or when I think of all the things I wish I’d accomplished already, I continue to remind myself that it’s okay to “do less.” 

We are human. We need rest. We need rejuvenation. We need space and silence to receive the little things that make up the entirety of life. Through doing less, in spite of the outer and inner voices that pressure us to do more and more, we can make space for life to happen.

With care,

Mrs. Bob