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Learning the beauty of SLOW LIVING


For the first time in my life, I’d taken the time to create – slowly. Not rush my way through the process, but slow pacing myself. This is big because I’m programmed for the opposite…

Fast-paced. Always on. Working against the clock.


YADA YADA YADA...

Looking back, that’s how I spent a big part of (probably most) of my adult life. Especially when work and personal life are concerned.

Stressed-out. Always in a hurry. Feeling as if the clock was always working against me.


There was never a moment to rest, let alone gather my thoughts.

Since 2019 I’ve been on a journey back to sanity. It took me to so many places.

Mindfulness. Meditation practice. Yoga. Self-love. Self-care. Daily journaling. Reading – lots of reading. Minimalism. Essentialism. All those other -isms I can’t think of right now.

They’ve all been important pieces of the puzzle, for many different reasons. They also all have one thing in common: they’ve taught me to SLOW DOWN. So I can…

be in the NOW, give my mind a break, feel my body, organize my thoughts, learn what matters most, have more space to be, have more time to live, let go of what doesn’t serve me.

The slow living, it makes me realize that I have been a fool of myself by struggling with my need for constant perfection. It makes me know who I am and what my value is, and it is vital. By trying to let go of the essence of feeling that I need to fulfill the expectation that I create by myself or others.

These are some mantras that I have been reciting within me :

  • Appreciate all the smallest of moments even though they meant nothing and everything at the same time.
  • Remembering Life is short but time pacing so fast, makes it every second are accountable for you not for anyone else.
  • Accepting that hardship it's a part of life, the forever friends for life.
  • See the silver lining in every situation.
  • Make some mistakes, it is fine because they will start growing within you.

Slowing down is beautiful yet powerful.

As Gandhi said, there is more to life than increasing its speed.

And yeah I honestly thought that if we open our eyes and hearts to take this authentic reality in our perspective shifts. To start, as William Blake wrote, to see a world “in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” 

We will celebrate more rather than fear the differences of others. We will be grateful for what we have and understand why others might choose, or not, to strive for it.

In uncertain times the unpredictability of slow living might be the antidote to the creeping need for taking control. And by slowing down and getting lost, might it be just what we need!

The future is slow. And beautiful.


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