{Slow down}

slow down your yoga practice ● stroll with friends ● appreciate your meals with all of your senses ● just listen ● float in a lake ● read poetry in bed ● savor new tastes ● gaze at the sky ● dance in slow motion ● do nothing with eyes open ● enjoy colors and scents ● experience the dawn ● rest on the ground ● explore slow touch ● feel textures ● breathe with your whole body ● see everything as a shape ● pause to feel content ● move your hands slowly in space ● do one thing at a time ● complete before moving on ● do slow belly breathing ● feel the bottoms of your feet as you walk ● take a nap outside ● bathe in moonlight ● hold sweet water in your mouth ● read a very long book ● learn flower arranging ● make sun tea ● enter into friendly silence ● stroke a large animal ● braid a friend’s hair ● quietly observe other beings ● do walking meditation ● stop trying to be understood ● listen to children play ● listen to the breeze ● walk barefoot in spring mud ● listen to music while doing nothing else ● watch the tops of trees move while lying on your back ● smell babies and listen to them breathe ● sit on rocks in streams ● scratch your back on a tree ● observe light changing throughout the day ● massage yourself with warm oil ● gaze into space in a dark room ● watch incense smoke curl ● do some canning ● learn fermenting ● play with sand ● make plant medicine ● consciously talk and walk more slowly ● Enjoy wearing soft, loose clothes against your skin ● relax in clean, well-cared for spaces ● turn off social media ● enjoy the textures, transformations, and movements of ironing and sewing ● meditate on warm ghee

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