There are no pre-requisites for rest. You don’t have to be burnt out, you definitely don’t need permission. You don’t have to be sick, you don’t have to have been hauling ass for 7 years… before you deserve it. Rest is a basic human right. Practice can help to create the context, for factoring in more high quality restoration into our lives, so we aren’t procrastinating as a way of steeling rest. Practice is a multi-faced mirror, a remedy & a roadmap for when feeling lost. It is a space for making sense of what seems senseless… it is a nourishment at all kinds of levels. Every big beginning has its start is some kind of pause, some moment of stillness. Make space for this, for yourself, so to begin the growing of your deepest dreaming. The biggest hurdle is just starting. Even the most immaculate bloom has a dirty beginning, and the evidence of small beginnings are found in the big magic everywhere: in the oak trees, fallen leaves, new grass, in every hole in the ground, in the scent of skin, in healing herbs, in the rain & dust & moon, and in the magnificent majesty on the inside of each of us. Every moment is either a distraction or an inspiration and its your dedication that leads the way. So keep doing you, because there is no confirmation number in this process of awakening. Become an auteur of improbable victory. Everything is possible even if it hasn’t happened yet. Like the flying fish, defying what we believe to be possible. Keep taking one leap of faith at a time, and with each leap of faith, you are building a launching pad for what is next, as you beam for the future.
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