From busy to be

​No one teaches you how to live a soul full life. 

We learn to brush our teeth and tie our shoes but we don't learn how to live from our heart of hearts.  We learn to be on time, to be good, to work hard to survive, to not fart in public, to be civilised. We learn to be adults who rush and push ourselves to pay the bills.

Many of us live our lives on a 'busy' default setting, dual screening and multitasking our arses off. With all our modern conveniences and robotic floor cleaners (love mine!) we are more efficient than ever, but we don't have more time – we just do more.

It's not sustainable to keep going on like this, without pause. It can take the crippling emptiness of depression or the paralysing grip of anxiety or the emotional desert of a mid-life crisis – to realise your rudder has gone missing – to hear your soul's invitation to return home.

Living a soul full life means being true to our essential natures. But this is hard to do when you can't remember what/who it is. Perhaps you left it somewhere between your pubescent self's journal, the 106th grocery shopping run and the recent Netflix binge.
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The more I slow down and step into a soul full life, I'm becoming more attuned to the magic of life that surrounds me. I notice the sunbeams' rainbows that visit me by the bathroom window in the morning, I notice how the birds make me smile with their song and I notice how the old fig trees at the park envelope me as I walk under them, it feels simply beautiful. I'm a regular Snow White! Through this lens – which magnifies life around me – living is quite magical.

However the bubble bursts when work stress gets the better of me (which happens all the time). I get lost in thought, my mind's relentless noisy carry-on steals the beauty of the moment from me, replacing it with the consequential escapism of online retail therapy, Netflix and wine (which are pleasures in their own right).

When I notice myself getting lost in thought, I now shift my attention back to my rainbows and birds (to the things that make my inner Snow White happy) albeit my monkey mind keeps screeching for my attention. It's a work in progress.

It takes time to relearn how to just be – the place where we can get in touch with our true natures – but it's worth it. Trust me, in noticing and experiencing the beauty that surrounds you, life is richer.

​Try it, it's free.