Softness is a Strength

Sometimes the best thing to do is...

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This week’s newsletter is an invitation for more simplicity, straightforwardness and softness. I hope that a sliver or two feels like medicine to you. Thank you so much for being here and settling into stillness with me:

Sometimes the most efficient thing you can do:

• Is to slow down in a world that rewards rushing. To access silence in a world where there is so much noise. Silence doesn’t mean the noise has disappeared, it means that we’re able to find refuge within the noise.

• Is to remember that inspiration never comes from excess pressure. Inspiration is invited in through spaciousness - it rarely arrives from forcing it to arrive. Inspiration happens in the quiet in-between moments, like when we’re mid-shampoo-rinse or silently standing in awe of the earth. It happens when we least expect it because in these moments, we’re not trying to make it happen.

• Is to step away from your work, a conversation, a project, when you feel stuck and stagnant. See above: inspiration rarely comes from forcing it. Giving it space means surrendering control. Intentionally stepping away doesn’t mean that you’ve given up - it’s in the stepping away that we’re able to arrive.

• Is to release the timeline of when things should happen, so they have the room to happen as they’re supposed to. They were going to happen at that pace anyway.

• Is to take your time and take a few deep breaths.

• Is to start with the easy task that you’ve been putting off. Go for the low-hanging fruit. It’s in going for the easy task that we’re able to show our bodies that it’s safe to get started.

Sometimes the wisest thing you can say is:

• Nothing

• ‘I don’t know’

• ‘I’m not familiar with that’

• ‘Can you tell me more?’

• 'Can you help me understand?’

Sometimes the most courageous thing you can do:

• Is to celebrate the achievements that society sees as expected, default accomplishments. Just because it’s expected, doesn’t mean it’s easy. Just because it’s assumed, doesn’t mean it should be.

• Is to stop reading a book that you hate even though you’re only 42 pages in. When did we learn that we need to endure things that should be giving us pleasure and comfort?

• Is to create your own measurement system of success. Brainstorm markers of success that center around how present and connected you feel. Did I honor my body today? Was I present in conversations with loved ones today? Did I allow myself to seek out pockets of everyday romance today?

• Is to feel deeply when it would be so much easier to numb it all out.

• Is to choose softness over strength, and in doing so, seeing that softness is strength. Softness is a teacher and a healer. You have a deep ability to feel what others feel, to know what’s on someone’s heart before they’ve found the words for it. Your softness is not something to fix or turn off, it’s something to work with. When people’s emotions are traveling through you, the daily practice is to access your inner stability and ask yourself: is this mine to carry?

• Is to embark on a path that you don’t have a blueprint for, to move forward even though you don’t know what the next step is.

  

  Journaling prompts

• Let’s start by arriving into the space. Inhale for 4, hold for a second at the top, and exhale for 6. Repeat for a few cycles.

• Choose one nugget from the above list that resonates with you. Sit with it for a moment and see what arises.

• What about this reminder resonated with you?

• What would it feel/look like to integrate this into your life right now?

Thank you for being here, exactly as you are. This month’s guided meditation is will be delivered to you on Wednesday, the new moon! Sending ease in the meantime ♡

With warmth,

Meg