As both Covid-19 and flu cases continue to rise across the country, it seems a good time to consider the incremental nature of both growth and healing. With the digital age, the pace of world-wide events, news in general and targeted advertising, information is non-stop and must compete with multiple voices, to be recognized and absorbed. It's easy to feel a sense of urgency and drama about most information. In fact, that urgency and drama is cultivated to capture your attention where resources and markets are highly competitive. In the long run though, we undermine ourselves because we simply cannot absorb everything all at once. In some ways, this only confuses our collective sense of growth and healing, at a time when we need to make careful and wise choices.
It's not a very exciting contemplation on the surface, but today I urge you to reflect on the incremental. Some things are urgent. Certain core issues around the globe are urgent. But most of daily life is not. With constant exposure to urgency, our expectations and reactions are skewed. Consider the time it took for Life to grow you. Think of the gradual small shifts and adjustments that happened over time. Consider the time it takes to repair, to heal, to settle into a new way of being. Allow yourself to act incrementally, one small step at a time. Trust the Intelligence of Nature and of Time. It is one way to restore a sense of balance. (Susan Nettleton)
Follow the links below for further perspective from our website.
https://hillsidesource.com/daily.../2018/6/20/time-enough
https://hillsidesource.com/.../6/16/excellence-takes-time
https://hillsidesource.com/.../2018/3/24/from-worry-to-peace